Anna Faversham Posted September 1 Posted September 1 I wish I could remember! I've been trying. I do remember Mr Pickwick by Charles Dickens. I remember thinking that one would have suited the boys' school and I was at an all girls' school. Quote
Madeleine Posted September 1 Posted September 1 In a similar sort of vein to Anna's post, I was also at a girls' school and we did Lord of the Flies, which is also all boys. We did do Jane Eyre and Far from the Madding Crowd as well,also To Kill a Mockingbird which all have main female characters, which I suppose balanced it out a bit. Quote
lunababymoonchild Posted September 1 Posted September 1 Interesting. I went to a mixed school - and oh boy the boys were annoying! - and we read loads of things. Not Dickens though, that I remember. And none of the Brontes. Did Lord of the Flies, The Power and the Glory, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I was absolutely horrified by Of Mice and Men. Flight of the Heron, about the Jacobite rebellion, Stig of the Dump. The Thirty-nine Steps. Loved that, then read it as an adult and was underwhelmed by it. That’s all that I remember. Quote
France Posted September 2 Posted September 2 23 hours ago, Anna Faversham said: I wish I could remember! I've been trying. I do remember Mr Pickwick by Charles Dickens. I remember thinking that one would have suited the boys' school and I was at an all girls' school. I can't remember either! I must be getting old (I AM getting old). I didn't go to school until I was 11 and then it was an all girls boarding school. I have a feeling we might have done Heart of Darkness for O level but I can't remember finishing it and there was something about hauling a cannon across Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. We had Richard II as our Shakespeare which I loved. Quote
Hux Posted September 2 Posted September 2 Carrie's War in middle school. It put me off reading for a long time. Quote
Madeleine Posted September 2 Posted September 2 I hate to say it bur Jane Austen's Persuasion and Emma, for A Level, also helped to put me off reading for years, and I was a real bookworm. Quote
poppy Posted September 3 Posted September 3 The ones I remember ... Black Like Me, The Grapes of Wrath( both had a big impact on me), 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, the horrible Lord of the Flies and The Sword in the Stone (remember loving this one). We did Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. And the wonderful poets e e cummings and Gerald Manley Hopkins. Quote
Madeleine Posted September 3 Posted September 3 We did Animal Farm and 198bore, sorry 1984 as well, scarily prescient now but bored me stiff at the time, I skipped a whole section! Quote
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