Animal Farm is one of my favourites. I'm really into Politics, and AF presents it in a fairly straightforward, yet utterly captivating way. It's also pretty short so I can get through it in like two or three sessions.
I read 1984 like 15 years ago, during a time when...well frankly I was an idiot teenager who knew nothing of the world. I should go back to that at some point.
I'm laaaaazy as sin when I've finally got the kids to bed so I usually hold it in my right hand and then operate the thing by pressing the buttons with the same hand. If I have to move my left for anything other than moving my drink to my mouth I consider this a loss.
I've been using a service called Hardcover after switching over from StoryGraph last year. I've been searching for a 'letterboxd for books' for years and I think this is the closest I've found so far.
We 'got around it' by essentially having no time together as a family, and even less as a couple.
I work five days and she works the two days I don't work; it sucks but it means we don't have to worry about childcare costs at the moment. The thought of her going back to her minimum wage supermarket job and sending our toddler into nursery is frankly, a non-starter.
We've got a five year old and a two year old. My youngest will be entitled to those funded hours soon, but even then the amount of top up fees nursery have to add on to simply meet costs makes it unaffordable for many.
We got super fortunate with my eldest. She got accepted into the nursery group that was run by (her now) Primary school. We only had to pay for cover at lunch times with cost us about £80 a term. Had that not been the case I think she'd have missed out on all of that pre-school socialising.
That's the thing according to the evidence we do have, he wasn't showing any signs of illness in the run up to very noticeable falling ill about three weeks after entering the white house. Not saying that it wasn't hyperthermia, just that it's very unlikely to have been brought on by his actions during the inauguration.
I think this is actually a common misconception about the presidency of WHH. He gave the longest speech, he (iirc) the oldest president at the time of his inauguration and that inaugural speech was ridiculously wrong, but there's no actual evidence to say it's what ultimately led to his death.
I could be wrong, but I believe that Harrison's death, and the death of Taylor a few years later are to some extent linked; the water was bad.
Quick check of the article shows what was already obvious here. Someone with reach tweeted the link to their largely pro-EU followers, who then did the thing and hijacked the poll to amusing effect.
Something like this would have been a significantly better vehicle for working out our membership of the EU.
It puts democracy back in the hands of the people, allows those people to have a say on policy and should (in theory) make our system significantly fairer, more transparent and dare I say it, more relevant to average people.
Lots of people are quick to snap back with 'Why don't the parents... parent' but as a parent, this is the larger worry. Like, yes, I can stop my kid from having a phone but if everyone in her friend group has one and uses one, am I doing damage in not letting her experience and grow alongside her friends?
The reality is that it's not 2002 anymore, and my children aren't going to grow up in a house with one semi-reliable internet-access point (family PC).
It's significantly more complicated than merely suggesting that parents be better, because...what is better here?
Not talking about you, just some of the other comments seem... incredible snappy.
They're slower for sure, but they've got some great moments and some of the most memorable moments from the trilogy imo.
Po-ta-toes, the two-way conversation with Gollum and the Samwise speech about hope, which remains my favourite scene in the entire trilogy. Plus we get to meet ma boi Faramir, who's wearing a hood no less.
Animal Farm is one of my favourites. I'm really into Politics, and AF presents it in a fairly straightforward, yet utterly captivating way. It's also pretty short so I can get through it in like two or three sessions.
I read 1984 like 15 years ago, during a time when...well frankly I was an idiot teenager who knew nothing of the world. I should go back to that at some point.