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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The Right-wing has rushed to attack Kevin Jennings because the organization he used to run lists several books with sexually explicit passages among those they recommended for adolescents. Aside from the fact that GLSEN's list specifically recommends that adults review the books themselves before selecting them for youths, the conservative media's argument is undermined by the fact that numerous books...
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Frillr - It's the little frills tha (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
For Spring-Summer 2010, designer Siki im looked to 'The Lord of the Flies' by William Golding for inspiration. His focus the purity and sense of possibility inherent to a fresh start. Siki's tackles tailoring for "Black Beat White Wonder" in a beautiful way, presenting something refined and modern. The predominantly black collection uses luxurious fabrics including Australian Merino Wool,...
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Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
...and therefore they have gone to a charity shop for rehoming. Sob. - The Yiddish Policeman's Ball by Michael Chabon - Lots of Charles Dickens - The collected plays of Brecht - A biography of Brecht - Anything relating to Brecht. I love him, but life it too damned short. - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre - The Victim by Saul Bellow...
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Faith and Theology (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Now that the teaching year has ended here, I've begun my programme of self-rejuvenation through fiction. So far, my summer holiday reading list includes the following novels: Patrick Süskind, Perfume (1985) [finished: probably the best novel I've read all year] Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist (2006) [finished] David Lodge, Changing Places (1975) [finished] David Lodge, Small World (1984)...
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Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Trawling The Depths Of Human MiseryI didn't consciously realise when packing my holiday reading selection what a concentrated heap of evil, spite and awfulness I had gathered.....Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen : Little rich girls mope aroundCatcher In The Rye - J D Salinger : Spoiled rich kid hates everythingLord Of The Flies - William Golding : Lost boys amuse themselves with murderOn
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learn, live, thrive (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I came across by chance the biography of William Golding by John Carey, recently published by Faber and Faber. I rarely read literary biographies, let alone pay £25 for them, but this one was different. It was in part the biography of Tony Brown. I worked with Tony from 1974-1977 and he welcomed me to his house just before he died from cancer. I was a teacher in a Salisbury school, where he was...
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silencing the bell (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
So we had a mad dash around the charity shops today after M decided that she wasn't well read enough to get into Yale . Her reading list now includes: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Persuasion by Jane Austen Hard Times by Charles Dickens Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (labelled as a first edition but we have established it is not) The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike War and Peace by Leon Tolstoy...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
That’s the story in the Times Online. A computer program used to mark A level English exams marked Ernest Hemingway as less than average and said he should write with more care. it rated Churchill as below average and didn’t like William Golding, either. This was a trial by the Chartered Institute of [...]
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EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Computerised essay marking a shambles They are some of the most memorable and stirring words of the 20th century, but Churchill’s speech exhorting the British to “fight on the beaches” would fail if submitted as a school essay and subjected to a proposed computerised marking system. The wartime leader had a style that was too repetitive, according to the computer being tested for...
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Underbelly (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Frank Kermode considers "an element of violence" in the life of William Golding and tells us something Satanic: "...as drunken assault on a Bob Dylan puppet belonging to the writer Andrew Sinclair and kept in his house, in a bedroom used by the Goldings. Waking in the night, Golding mistook the puppet for Satan, attacked it and buried it in the garden." London Review of Books ,...
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News: News blog | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The official A-level higher English exam marking computer takes young Dickens, Austen and John the Evangelist to task As you know, children, we have run all of your mock A-level English papers through the government's official examination marking computer. You will have read in the Times this morning of the fiasco when Ernest Hemingway, William Golding, Winston Churchill and Anthony Burgess failed...
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Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
At the end of his column in the Telegraph, Toby Young tells the story of a man named Bill who gained a poor degree at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was classified by the university's appointments committee as 'not quite' meaning 'not quite a gentleman'. The Bill in question was William Golding who went on to become Brasenose's only ever winner of the Nobel prize. Would the then commitee have
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lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Brooklyn-based artist Sam Weber recently collaborated with the Folio Society and the William Golding estate to create an illustrated edition of Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies. Copies are currently available to Folio Society members only, but they’re still sure to sell quick.SPONSOR
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