Educating Rita
by Willy Russell

English
123 pages
New Longman Literature
ISBN: 0-582-43445-9
First line: I was born in Whiston, which is just outside Liverpool.
Back cover blurb:
Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education but does Frank, her lecturer, have anything to teach her? Willy Russell’s play is a hilarious yet moving account of a young [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Love
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I have tallied the scores and here are the contest winners:
First prize: Banquo with 16 points
Second prize: Kim L with 5 points
(They were, I might add, the only two people to enter.)
So, Banquo and Kim L, comment on this entry or e-mail me at love DOT esbjorn AT gmail DOT com to let [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: General booktalk | 5 Comments »

I’m sorry I haven’t tallied the scores for the quotation contest yet (I expect to do it later today). First my internet was down (I hate when that happens), then I sort of got so caught up in watching old episodes of Scrubs that I forgot everything else.
As there were only two entrants, counting up [...]

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Love
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The deadline for the quotation contest was supposed to be tonight, but I’m moving it to same time next week instead. Partly because I have a crazy workweek coming up and won’t really be online much, but also because there’s only one entry so far.
Come on, people, you can make a guess, surely?

Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Love
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Eva at A Striped Armchair had a contest up for Buy a Friend a Book week. I didn’t participate, but it did inspire me enough that I am going to proceed to steal the idea from her (I’m sure she doesn’t mind).
I’m still stuck in a rut when it comes to my reading, so I [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Love
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My reading slump really made a difference in the amount of books I read during March. It started somewhere around the middle of the month and only two of the total fourteen I read, I read after the 15th.
March books:

När kommer du tillbaka?; Marika Kolterjahn, C
Tenderness; Robert Cormier (not reviewed)
Dragon’s Bait; Vivian Vande Velde, C
True [...]

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Stats | No Comments »