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04 Feb 2019, 8:17 pm

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I am currently reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath for the sixth time-- I read the book once every year...


I'm surprised to learn that six-year-olds read The Bell Jar. :wink:


No, I am twenty two... I read the book once every year and I have been reading the book since I was sixteen. It was the first book I read, assigned by my Junior Honors English class, after the first time I got out of the mental hospital... And since then, she has been a constant comfort for me... Sixteen to Twenty Two would make six years... February 2013 to February 2019 would make six years... I was not six years old... At six, I was reading "The Animal Ark" book series or "Junie B. Jones."

Also, my friend said that you are probably joking because of the winky face.


Yes, I was joking. Also, not to be overly pedantic ... but 16 - 22 (or 2013 - 2019) would make seven years. :wink:



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04 Feb 2019, 9:05 pm

Out of interest (if any one is)
I am presently reading a book written by a man called Kenny Jones, who are the drummer from the Small Faces, psychedelic Rock group from the mid 60s. Kenny Jones also went on to play in the Faces, and after that, the Who as well (after Keith Moon Died).

Quiet interesting as a musician to get an insight and the true stories behind the era that is long gone now.
During the times when cheeky young men could be cheeky and have fun without the Political Correctness Squad jumping all over you.

I also plan to start reading soon a couple of other books. One about Steve Bannon, the man who was the strategist (another word for spin doctor or propagandist?) behind the Donald Trump campaign, who even Trump sacked.
I read because I want to make an informed decision about the person, to examine the facts (if there are any).
As I have heard very scary things about this guy which worry me, and perhaps should worry more of the people out there if what the rumours are true. But as I am fair, I think it is better to examine the evidence.

The other books are a classroom in a book on Adobe Illustrator, as I would love to be able to make decent digital illustrations and a book called Japanese Jiu Jutsu, which is about the traditional Ju Jutsu styles that Judo and Gracie Ju Jutsu came from. The kind of ju jutsu that Jon Wick is supposed to do, in case anyone has seen the film. :-)

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04 Feb 2019, 9:08 pm

That's a pretty good variety of reading material.



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04 Feb 2019, 9:14 pm

My brother is reading that Kenny Jones book! :P



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04 Feb 2019, 9:19 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
SweetOnSylvia wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
SweetOnSylvia wrote:
I am currently reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath for the sixth time-- I read the book once every year...


I'm surprised to learn that six-year-olds read The Bell Jar. :wink:


No, I am twenty two... I read the book once every year and I have been reading the book since I was sixteen. It was the first book I read, assigned by my Junior Honors English class, after the first time I got out of the mental hospital... And since then, she has been a constant comfort for me... Sixteen to Twenty Two would make six years... February 2013 to February 2019 would make six years... I was not six years old... At six, I was reading "The Animal Ark" book series or "Junie B. Jones."

Also, my friend said that you are probably joking because of the winky face.


Yes, I was joking. Also, not to be overly pedantic ... but 16 - 22 (or 2013 - 2019) would make seven years. :wink:




February 2013 to February 2014= one year
February 2014 to February 2015= one year
February 2015 to February 2016=one year
February 2016 to February 2017=one year
February 2017 to February 2018= one year
February 2018 to February 2019= one year
Thus,
February 2013 to February 2019= six years

Sylvia is very important to me and though, I may not be the best at math, I am pretty sure that I know how many years I have been studying Sylvia, especially since it correlates very closely to my initial trauma in December of 2012...


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04 Feb 2019, 9:21 pm

Age 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 = 7 years

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 = 7 times

Unless it takes you a year to read the book each time.

I'm glad you enjoy the book, Sylvia. It's a classic.
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04 Feb 2019, 9:24 pm

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05 Feb 2019, 1:16 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:
Age 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 = 7 years

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 = 7 times

Unless it takes you a year to read the book each time.

I'm glad you enjoy the book, Sylvia. It's a classic.
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I turned sixteen in August of 2012. I read "The Bell Jar" for the first time in February of 2013. I was sixteen and a half when I began reading it. The whole of my sixteen year does not count. I am now 22 and a half. The whole of my twenty-second year does not count. Subtract two halves and you subtract a whole year. It has been six years...

Also, it does not take me a year to read the book... It usually varies between a few days to about a month. More if I am in a depressive episode. This is my sixth time reading the book. In December of this year, I will start reading the book again and I will do this every year after that...


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05 Feb 2019, 5:05 am

Selected Father Brown stories by GK Chesterton.



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05 Feb 2019, 8:14 pm

Barker, Juliet. The Brontës : A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2016.

Add this one to my list. It arrived in the post and looks wonderful. :heart:



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05 Feb 2019, 8:53 pm

Bullet Proof Witch: Delivery Of The Flesh, by F.W. Blair.

Dark, gritty fantasy set in an old west world where a bounty hunter bringing in demons to human law seeks to avenge a wrong done to her family. The author is a member of my writers group, The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers Of Spokane.


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06 Feb 2019, 8:47 am

S K Trevayne: The ice twins

so far, so good


rereading the second book of Jeff Povey's trilogy before moving on to the unread third.

Rev's obsession on Johnson and Other-Johnson is driving me up the wall in these books. You're trapped in another dimension, you have much more important stuff to think of, to say nothing of the fact that Johnson seems to be very wishywashy, and Other-Johnson is doing nothing less than mindrape. She should forget about J, and run for the hills when it comes to O-J!

These books could have been so exciting if that nonsense had been downplayed.

it also really annoys me that they keep calling the other versions of themselves aliens. They're just themselves from another dimension, stop with the alien crap.


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06 Feb 2019, 1:46 pm

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.


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06 Feb 2019, 2:45 pm

The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre

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06 Feb 2019, 4:39 pm

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green.



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06 Feb 2019, 10:07 pm

The Professor, Charlotte Brontë (posthumous, 1857)