#it is so funny and so Goudge

[itspileofgoodthings]

okay so the estranged married couple in my Goudge novel did NOT get back together, he DIED off-page without being reconciled to his wife whom he had not seen in years and Charles is NOT going to suffer for not being faithful to Lucy, it is totally treated as a matter of course and instead of any reckoning with that Lucy has now been unfaithful to him??? with one of his friends!?? and most loyal supporters ???? !!???!??? what is GOING on akksksksjsjejejekek

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revisiting childhood

I’m doing an informal project of reading books I read as a kid. So far I’ve read

-- Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge (really good)

--some of Anderson’s Fairy Tales (a little creepy and disturbing)

--Eleanor Farjeon’s The LIttle Bookroom (more fairy tales but not as C and D)

--Daddy Longlegs, by Jean Webster: good writing, but has a questionable plot point - that is, wealthy orphanage trustee anonymously sends one of the orphans to college, and then later on they fall in love and get married. Hmmm...

Currrently reading The Silver Chair, which is about midway through the Narnia series. It was the first one I read, when I was around 10, and still my favorite. Highly recommend for its scruffy and somewhat recalcitrant protagonists, Jill and Eustace, and for the gloomy and philosophical Puddleglum who accompanies them on their quest to find the Lost Prince. Here’s a great Puddleglum quote, a speech he makes to the villain of the story, the evil queen: 

“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things–trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow.”

Which is on the one hand like Plato’s allegory of the cave, and on the other hand a sort of manifesto for fiction writers, yes? 

https://smile.amazon.com/Silver-Chair-Chronicles-Narnia-Book-ebook/dp/B004DNWQ34/ref=sr_1_1?crid=J88EI2JXNNQH&keywords=the+silver+chair+by+c.s.+lewis&qid=1675191985&sprefix=the+silver+chair%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1

#rereading #narnia #Puddleglum #childrensbooks

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The other Lady Lupin books are even less... findable. Only the first was reprinted some years ago, I haven't the other three either. But Lupin is a delightful fish out of water: ignorant of religion as much as of rural life, she finds herself suddenly the wife of a country Vicar. It's incredibly funny.

Yes, Brideshead... why, may I ask? It's the quintessential Catholic novel for me, though that is (not only) why I love it so much. For one thing – in a way I have thus far only experienced with specific aspects of Elizabeth Goudge's books – it speaks my language. While Charles Ryder is often exasperating to me, I also understand him on a very personal level. My introduction to the book was the 2008 movie, when I was a child. I loathed it – it was dreary, seemed anti-Catholic, everyone was unsympathetic and it gave me a wholly incorrect idea of the book. The Granada series is splendid however. I got into the book rather spontaneously, after avoiding it for years, and fell in deep love with it.

Favourite classic movie (serious): Goodbye, Mr Chips / (silly): Bringing Up Baby // Favourite period drama (series): All Creatures Great and Small (1978-90) / (film): Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

Favourite Golden Age Mystery: Busman's Honeymoon // (lesser known: Who killed the Curate?)

Favourite classic novel: Brideshead Revisited

Ooh, I should watch the Goodbye, Mr. Chips film now that I've read the book!

I loved Bringing Up Baby!

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to try both those period dramas ever since I've seen you posting about them.

And thank you for reminding me that I still haven't read Busman's Honeymoon. I've been wanting to read Peter Wimsey, haven't been in the mood for a reread, but haven't been up to tackling Five Red Herrings. But I forgot that I still have Busman's Honeymoon! I've read the play, but I've yet to finish the novel. That may be one to prioritize.

Who Killed the Curate? is a Christmas mystery? One of my favorite subgenres? I'm sad to find that it's impossible to get, but it sounds lovely.

I'm still debating if Brideshead Revisited is something I actually want to read. Your love of it intrigues me, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for it yet. (Without your love of it, I wouldn't even be considering it, so consider that a compliment).

[izzythehutt]

It surprises me that someone who is religious as you are, likes Harry Potter. So... Why? What makes Harry Potter different?

I liked the books when I was a little girl for the same reason millions of children do—they are charming, whimsical, funny and full of heart. People forget that at the time it first came out in the late 90s Harry Potter was so different from everything else in the kids publishing industry (the 80s and 90s were the age of the ‘issues’ books. It was bleak). The books were considered a total throwback. I do think their old-fashioned, timeless quality is a lot of the appeal.

The worldview and universe that underpins the books is a Christian one. The Little White Horse, which JKR cites as the biggest direct influence on HP, was written by Elizabeth Goudge, the daughter of an Anglican theologian and very devout (her books would probably be categorized as “Christian fantasy” like Narnia today). Rowling’s personal religious practice is, by all accounts, nominal, but she’s writing from a tradition. The series is replete with Christian themes and imagery. The entire series is ultimately about death and its defeat—the central point of Christianity.

Would it shock you to learn that I probably don’t like Harry Potter as much as you imagine? I use a character to whom I’ve always been very attached and feel a personal connection to explore personal issues and specific themes, some of which aren’t really addressed in Harry Potter at all. I could have seen myself writing a story like Black Sheep Dog in another fandom or just as an original piece. It being in the HP universe is useful because I didn’t have to do some of the work of world-building but in many ways is almost incidental.

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Recsmas 2019

Day 1: A Happy Book

The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge might be an untypical choice for a “happy book” - especially when I know so many cheerful and funny books I could very easily recommend, and there is a book that made you smile coming up on the 7th, so that’s alright - but I stubled over the word happy, rather than cheerful, or joyful, or funny. But here’s a book that’s happy - quietly happy. A book about people who are unhappy, for various reasons, and who, by helping and understanding each other, grow to be happy.

Day 2: A Short Book

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton is short - in lenght, in number of pages. It’s a long story, and, though told with surprisingly few words, never rushed. And it is beautiful! It’s poignant! It’s heartbreaking, and healing! It is an autumn book, I think, but it can be read at any time, especially before Christmas. And it can be read in one sitting, It’s also my favourite, and I really recommend it to absolutely everyone, regardless of their usual taste in books, because it’s so very short, it’s worth the risk, and so lovely at that!

[teabooksandsweets]

I personally don’t really understand in which way people define dark academia... in fact, I think everybody does so a little differently, but for classic books that I think would fit: Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton is autumn, and school life, and teaching, and the beauty of knowledge, and joy and tragedy, all in a tiny little book that inspired several works now associated with this aesthetic. It’s a gem, and due to its little size and great perfection one of the few books that I recommend for everything to read, as one couldn’t possibly go wrong with it. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is very Oxford, very Beauty and Thought and Love, and tragic and and hopeful and happy and perfect. A City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge is all the beauty and necessity of learning and creating, and the way people can truly and deeply connect through art, and through it defy time and space—and it also has a gentle air of cottagecore about it, speaking in tumblr terminology. Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries should be far more popular among dark academia people, as they are full literary references, thoughtfulness, trauma, fabulous romance, and Lord Peter himself, as well as the fabulous Harriet Vane both went to Oxford, which is also the setting of Gaudy Night. And it does have murder, so it does qualify as “dark” I suppose. More of a stretch, really, but Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster is a fabulously funny and cosy epistolary novella about an orphaned girl's adventures in college in the beginning of the last century. Also a stretch as James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small series is not cutesy enough for cottagecore, nor dark or academic enough for dark acedmia, but it’s full of country living and animals, small stories of people’s lives, and also of the practical use of theoretical knowledge and the scientific and megical developments of the mid-20th century. And then there’s The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen, which explores the way stories, fictional and not, work and influence each other like no other book, and celebrates and portrays many people, connecting and comparing, while building its own unique narrative, while celebrating reading and learning. And the badgers do love Oxford so much! And of course, I just remembered The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, which is a childrens’ series, and the best, most accurate and individual portrayal of intelligent and gifted I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant, and just...right. It’s mysterious, and sometimes dark, and celebrates knowledge and learning—in one’s own way, to one’s own nature.

Hi can you recommend classic books #dark academia themed

I’m probably not the best source for this because I don’t really fancy myself a dark academia person but of course The Secret History, I also loved The Goldfinch; any classics; the novels of Patricia Highsmith in my opinion are often overlooked.

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HOW DOES IT FEEL TO PLAN AND IMPLEMENT INTERVENTION WITH THE CLIENT

Just after mid-term fieldwork and you felt you had put all your effort only to find out that your clinical performance marks will kill yourself esteem. All the confidence you had just switches off. You are left feeling worthless, not fit to be an OT. But hey! There is more into OT than just results, it is also about the difference you make with you clients. Well, life moves on despite the outcome of midterms feedback. So, the only thing I was left to do was to comfort myself by telling myself that midterms do not count, there is still room for improvement.

Beginning of the fieldwork, hours will go by, preferable two cups of coffee would be taken while I sat and stared on my computer failing to come up with any treatment plan or treatment session for my clients. This was a result of not involving my clients into my intervention plan. But the moment I realised that it is very important to look at what the client prefers and discuss what really the client wants to achieve easily guides me to forming a treatment plan that is holistic and applies to client’s context. I just said CONTEXT this is important because client sometimes may want to achieve things that may never be implement in their home environments or culture. Or sometimes you as a therapist want to do activities because those are the only equipment you have. This will be useful at client’s stay at the hospital but will not be beneficial for client at the hospital. for an example, I had a burns client with burns on the face, shoulders and axilla. Client goal was to be discharged as soon as possible as she wanted to be with her child. But as a student therapist after screening I noticed that it was important that we focus on the AROM of the right and left shoulder as it had limited range below half range of all movements of the shoulder joint. Hence, I needed to use her desire as a motivation to get my aim with her accomplished. Therefore, it became a win-win solution for both the client and the student therapist. During this time, we were building a strong client and therapist relationship as she began to open up and tell me more about herself and what she does. Where I found out that she was a hairdresser prior to the accident. Hence, working on her shoulder movements was very important so she can return to work. Hence combining biomechanical frame of reference and occupation as a means approach. Retrieved from Elsevier (2005), Rapport: A Key to treatment success https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174438810500071

After I had sat and drafted my intervention plan and had built a good rapport with client. On a Monday morning I woke up in the morning, feeling ready for the day to do dusting and cleaning of the OT shelves to get the client flexing the shoulder for approximately 0-100 degrees while manage her pain. As I walked into the ward with a smile and ready to do what I was born to do, a was thrown with a pie on the face #Laughing out loud# it is funny now but then I felt so disappointed as I found her bed occupied by another patient. I then rushed to the nurse hoping she would tell me that they moved her to another ward/bed instead she told me that she has been discharged. This proves how much our occupation as OT is limited. We can make a difference but if there is need for beds in the hospital clients will be discharged and no carryover of OT intervention occurs. Hence, our profession will remain small and unrecognised. That’s why multidisciplinary approach is important because if it was utilised client would have not been discharged without the OTs approval. This quick turnover really affects my intervention planning. Griffin S.D, (1993) Achieves of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/0003-9993(93)90066-J/fulltext

Even if I was to plan/organise for her to be an outpatient this will not be adhered too as she will require transportation fee to come to the hospital and return home. Looking at her context she would not be able to afford that. Despite that, we are in a public hospital were employees work as they please. So, I wouldn’t want her to go extra-miles seeking for money for transport to only come to the hospital and not receive the service she deserves. This makes it difficult for treatment to be planned adequately and effectively. Harris B, Goudge J, Ataguba .J.E, McIntyre D, (2011) Journal of public health https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jphp.2011.35

Because she had burns, client had to undergo healing of open wounds first then after healing a face pressure garment could be made for her as a recommendation in the absence of the student therapist but due to lack of resources in or hospitals this cannot be recommended. As there is a pressure garment area but without the pressure garment material. It is a pity that we are taught all these beautiful things in our lectures and we have the greatest knowledge as OTs to make a difference but due to resources we end up being limited to show case our skills and knowledge. Anzarut .A, Olson J, Singh .P, Rowe BH (2009) Journal of Plastic http://www.jprasurg.com/article/S1748-6815(07)00653-5/abstract

Well, something that made me feel that midterm clinical performance does not determine the passion I had for OT was the group that occurred at the ward. I sat for half an hour, thinking of what I had to do for the group and trying to match what was required from me as a therapist and having several clients. Initially, I felt I won’t be able to do it because it was our first group with several patients by going to the same phrase “GOOD RAPPORT WITH CLIENTS” I only see one patient from that ward but every time I am going to see my patient I interact with other patients in the same ward. Through that I had a slight idea of their personality then it clicked to my senses that they might need something to keep them busy as they are not critically ill patients. So, having them play volleyball would be a good idea so they can use their time constructively instead of laying on bed that will cause secondary problems. although some structuring principles were not met due to the environment not having a wall or poles to stick the ribbon onto so some student therapists had to stand in and be the holders of the ribbon. This resulted into the clients not being prevent from safety precautions like falling as there was less therapist to assist. But despite that, the smiles on clients faces, the relief and the feedback they gave in the closure indicated the therapeutic value of the activity. This also advertised our profession as other patients from other wards watched the group session and requested for our services. This taught me that never fear to do something that has ever been done before in the hospital. as this might open new doors for greater opportunities. This group session has opened doors for better groups to be ran by fellow colleagues.

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In a nutshell, planning treatment requires knowing your client better through assessments, observations and building a strong rapport in interviews to aid in obtaining solid information about client’s profile and context. My last words are never let anything kill your confidence because we need to have confidence in to make it in the journey of OT. Just as Marcus Garvey said “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

[itspileofgoodthings]

it’s reading scent of water hours again, time to appreciate Paul wandering into Valerie’s bedroom and telling her to shove over.

[teabooksandsweets]

Most, but not all, books by P. G. Wodehouse and Georgette Heyer! And also James Herriot’s semi-autobiographical novels. And generally good children’s books like The Chronicles of Narnia, The Worlds of Chrestomanci, Nevermoor, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Daddy-Long-Legs; Elizabeth Goudge’s children’s books (and her adult books too—most of them are happy, and a very light and warm adult read is A City of Bells). And as for more adult fiction, Miss Buncle’s Book, The Scarlet Pimpernel... I wanted to suggest Trollope, but his books are “political” though in an entirely different, historical and often funny sense, so... oh, and in that vein, also, of course, Jane Austen.

I need happy, non-political book reccs please before I lose my mind.

[itspileofgoodthings]

Hi! I was wondering, what would you say are some of the best-developed fictional romances? Like ones that meet best the criteria you established in your post about writing romance a while back?

You sent this the first time I made my romance rules post and of COURSE my mind went blank and was like “I’ve never read a romance book in my LIFE” but I have been mulling over this question for the past 4 months, as you do, and since I just reblogged my romance writing post I decided to answer it!

All Austen

So all 6 Austens. Yep. All of ‘em. I don’t think there are any bad Austen novels; I think they’re all perfectly unique love stories in the way that people are unique from each other and I love them. There is this tendency I see sometimes in academic literary critics especially, my sworn nemeses most of the time, to act like she is NOT romantic. I read this introduction to “Emma” one time that was like “Knightley’s love for Emma, while affecting, is too paternalistic to be truly romantic” and I have never disagreed with a statement more. (And have low-key never stopped simmering about this for one second.) I think she is never, ever, ever sentimental and I think she is wry and mocking and funny but I think she does romance the BEST and my post not only mentions Austen but was thinking about her the whole time.

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

I haven’t read any other Levine books but Ella Enchanted is a miracle of a book. It NAILS the romance and has the exact right touch of distance and closeness, detail and secrecy, that I was trying to describe.

All Elizabeth Goudge

I love her love stories. I want to wrap myself up in them forever. She’s less on the side of the lightness of touch I was really trying to hammer home in my post, she is warmer and more passionate, but she’s so so true and pure and good and understanding that it works. She also has a way of working with married couples who have lost what they once had or let it grow bitter and takes them on a journey that undoes the misunderstanding and softens the pain and I cry all the time.

Also she has one book, I think it’s the Dean Watch, where these two teenagers are in love!!! And I can’t remember his name but he is sensitive and a worrier and her name is Polly and she’s practical and jolly and matter-of-fact and something horrible happens, I can’t even remember what, but they’re trying to deal with the aftermath of it and she’s mostly fine and he is mostly not and Goudge says something like “the way that troubles rolled off Polly like water off a duck’s back would, in their marriage, be what would annoy him the most in all the world and was his saving grace” and the way she understands that romance is about being annoyed and being saved by the same thing, the same person, the delicacy it takes to see that and write about it—is just one example of why she makes the list.

ALSO in another book of hers this guy is in love with a girl and he’s a tragic broken type and he’s very sincerely like “I am not good enough for her” and he’s talking to this older guy who’s kind of like him in a lot of ways and this older guy is like “why don’t you let her decide what she wants and not write the ending for her” and THIS IS ALSO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND GOOD.

Anyway yeah pretty much all Goudge.

And finally—

All P. G. Wodehouse

He’s written so many books and pretty much as many love stories and I have an instinct of saying that they’re all pretty much the same and in a way they are but also they AREN’t and also??? To me he’s the KING of writing romance! And romance isn’t, as far as I understand it, what he is known for. He’s know for his light comedy and his delightful, fluid prose but his romances always just sneak in there and grab me around the throat and I love them so much. He has an exquisitely light touch and sense of humor about it, which is everything, but then he’ll stab you through the chest with a perfectly worded declaration of love that tears you and the character’s hearts completely open. He understands that the situation should be handled with humor but also that it is SO serious. His love stories in Something New, Spring Fever, Leave it to Psmith, A Gentleman of Leisure especially—because of when I read them and what they meant to me and shaped in me are some of my favorites.

Bonus: queen’s thief—amazing I just haven’t read far enough for it to totally sink into my soul yet, o pioneers by Willa Cather because it makes me want to FLY, mill on the floss and some of the brontes even though both are probably too heavy for my writing rules I just love them really personally, and anything by Rumer Godden.

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I have actually come to realise that I have a very soft spot, fondness even, for George Eliot. From the Damerosehay books, I mean. It’s funny, it came up to me when I thought about literary characters I personally fancy (yes, what a deep and important topic) and when I thought about how brilliant all the positive romantic relationships (as in, the ones that actually make it work together) in Elizabeth Goudge’s books are all absolitely wonderful and I love them very much, I came to think of how I feel for the men outside their wonderful relationships in the books, and despite my great love for Jocelyn and David in particular, I actually realised that, long story made short, I am very fond of George Eliot.

I mean, I often said that all of EG’s characters are real people, very real and very much alive, and I still say so, but George is, despite his real-ness, a character whose place is mostly in the background of the narrative, and of whose own story, out of Nadine’s personal character arc, we don’t see very much. And you see, I like Nadine actually a lot. She’s a very complex and interesting character, and I love her growth, and I love how she worked her way against her own disposition in a way that actually makes me like her much more than, to name someone in a similar position as her, mentally, Lucilla herself, whom I actually view rather (very) critically, even though of course she’s important in her way.

And I see what her feelings for George, and the way she handled them, and... grew them, worked on them, mean in that context, and I understand George as the technically for a long time unwanted and unloved, generally oblivious and uncomplicated, old and boring husband. I understand how coming to build her new relationship means a lot to Nadine’s story, and I love the way she found her own true happiness in the way she did (without going into much detail here).

But most of what we see of him is either from the eyes of his children, who love him, but also see him mostly as a comforting and kind and otherwise not too interesting, well, father, and his mother and wife who both often look down on him in a sort of loving way, and he is mostly described as a man without much depth (e.g. his religious and political views). George doesn’t have that sort of romantic storyline some of the others have, in fact, all there is is just happening on Nadine’s side of the story.

So, he’s not the obvious character to even care about much. But I noticed I do, much more in retrospect than while reading. It’s funny how he is technically the stereotypically “desirable match” (wealthy, good military rank, one of the “beautiful” Eliots, etc.) his position is more or less that of an undesirable man—boring, bland, conventional, and of little emotional depth.

But he is so kind. There is such a certain air of warmth and safety about him. In the scenes he appears in there is always a certain calmness. The twins, despite not really caring for anyone, are extremely attached to him simply because of that specific aura. Lucilla made very clear that he was a very sensitive child. Nadine once really felt attracted to him, and despite all that made her lose interest in him, she always felt drawn near to him again, and despite not really wanting him for a long time, she never seemed to feel one bit uncomfortable with him, it was just that he couldn’t give her specifically what she wanted, but that’s an entirely different thing. Caroline practically shaped her world around him. Every relation and friend and aquaintance trusted him unconditionally, even if they didn’t really like him or take him seriously.

And there’s another thing—many parts are from the point of view of Hilary and Margaret, and so we know how deeply they think and feel. Even though most other characters seem not to expect that of them. I’m actually sure that it’s similar with George, it’s just that the reader sees little more of his inner life than the other characters.

But I got extremely off topic here, I didn’t actually want to write so much about him. All I wanted to say is that I think is that he, as himself, taking the specific storyline of his and Nadine’s marriage all aside, a very lovely husband. Not only as a nice and rather convenient, boring man. No, it’d be actually lovely to have him as a husband, just as he is. As himself I mean. Simply from the perspective of the reader (in this case, me) and not in the specific context of the books.

[itspileofgoodthings]

7, 8, and 10 (AWESOME ask game Maria!) ^_^

haha thank you Ami! I’d had it saved in my drafts for ages and I decided just to play it. 

7.) what do you think of the movie ratatouille? 

what a great question, thank you for asking! *wink emoji* I love it. It is hands down my favorite pixar movie and definitely one of my favorite movies in general! There’s something very magical and very human about it at the same time. The story is wonderfully unique, the visuals are so pretty, and the characters are memorable. Also it’s really clever and funny! But I think what gets me the most about it is the whole arc with the food critic and his reaction to the ratatouille. 

The flashback to his childhood is so unexpectedly sweet and poignant, and the look on his ridiculous pointy-villain face when he takes his first bite kills me. He’s not exuberantly delighted by it nor is he grudgingly overcome by its brilliance and so forced to eat humble pie (haha…haha)- two predictable routes the movie could have gone. He’s moved by the food. It uncovers something in him he thought has died, it brings up memories of love and simplicity he’s spent years burying with harsh criticism and a cold intellectual approach to food. Watching him remember is so unexpected because ratatouille belongs to a genre of movies whose approach to villains is understandably black and white, but what happens is much subtler and much more beautiful. It takes a classic over-the-top mean villain who is practically begging for a spectacular comeuppance and instead of giving you that, it breaks him. Really gently. Through food and the memory of his mother. Everything else in the movie is appropriately light and funny but at its core it’s about the power of art to move hearts. And I mean!! it’s a kids’ movie about a RAT who wants to coOK in a restaurant in Paris!!!!

8.) what’s the most helpful thing anyone has ever told you?

Answering this again and differently. :) This was something I noticed but then had a conversation with some people about but it’s been super helpful so I’m sharing. When you’re a student in a class it behooves you to pay attention, be respectful, do your work, show up etc. for many different reasons obviously, but one of the lesser known ones is that if you do, you’ll have an easier time when disaster strikes and accidents happen. It’s like building up credit with the teacher. If you’re a good student regularly they’ll be much more inclined to cut you some slack when your alarm doesn’t go off and you miss a test or you forget something important. If you’re not a good student, they don’t accept your excuse. It’s interesting because on the one hand…duh. But if you take two exactly identical cases of students missing tests or forgetting an assignment (or even cases where neither are at all to blame) teachers will react differently. The reaction will depend entirely on what kind of students both of them are. 

This is all very obvious and I’m talking too much but it helps me understand why teachers react the way they do sometimes. On the surface it can seem unfair, but if you’ve built up a bad history with them they’re not going to be as willing to forgive you your accidents.  

10.) Favorite Authors and Why.

Jane Austen, GK Chesterton, PG Wodehouse and Elizabeth Goudge. They are my standard four favorite authors. What they all have in common is a wonderful sense of humor and a great love for and understanding of people. They’re also all wonderfully themselves and never fail to bring me joy.

This was FUN. And super wordy. :D

[itspileofgoodthings]

30, 34, 35, 36 :) for bookish asks.

30: Who’s your favorite author?

Ugh it’s so hard to narrow it down to one! So here are my four favorite. Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, Elizabeth Goudge, G.K. Chesterton. If I had to choose one, it would be Jane. 

34: List five OTPs

I’m going to go strictly literary here. David and Sally (Eliot Family Trilogy), Jane and Rochester (Jane Eyre), Percy and Marguerite (Scarlet Pimpernel), Anne and Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables), Jo and Laurie (Little Women).

35: Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge. As beautiful and important and necessary as it is charming and funny and lovable and readable. I love all of her books but there is something so special about this one and it is just SO GOOD. Everyone should read it at christmas time. 

36: Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated

I know i have so many opinions about this but I can’t remember. K this is purely subjective and I’m sure objectively I’m wrong, but Moby Dick. I couldn’t read it. 

Thank you for playing!!