Jayne ,'The Train Job'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I assume they will feel the same way. (I also have no doubt that by the time they're old enough to be interested in such things, they will have the necessary skills to aquire their own
I was interested in porn way before I could get it for myself (8 or so), and managed to get the kids around me interested in it too. In a non-digital age, I was 14 before I started buying my own, 10 or so before someone started giving it to me.
I was REALLLL popular for my dramatic readings of the sex scenes from Valley of Horses when I was about 12.
Irony? I knew ALLLLL about sex from about 8 on, and didn't get kissed till I was 17. And man, was I PISSED about that.
I was all edjamacated and tongue kissed my first boy at 8...and then the second one many years later. I don't know all that book larning was for any good end.
Yes, I went from Never Been Kissed to backseat, er, manual stimulation in about 20 minutes.
I knew what was happening intellectually, but the lizard brain, she is not so smart.
Connie, I should have known the Hardisons of the e-reader world would have my(messy) back...maybe at Christmas. I still like paper books and will be sad if/when they do not print them anymore, but the e-reader would be nice for things like biographies and books of Matt Taibbi columns...not that Taibbi's work is disposable or anything...just that it's hard to reread election analysis.
So, do I want to read The Help or not? I put it on hold at the library a long time ago, and it just came up. I feel like I'm already over the whole controversy thing and am back to not caring about it.
I enjoyed The Help quite a lot. I liked the characters and saw way too many of my relatives reflected in them.
I also enjoyed The Help.
I thought it was very good, for reasons that had nothing to do with controversy. I say read it.
My mom loved it and is desperate for me to read it so we can talk about it, although I think she wanted us to go see the movie together, too. Probably too late for that now. I did like the first chapter I read very quickly.