School Daze

How much do I love editing for scratchmist, let me count the ways. XD Mellish always edits carefully before she sends anything on and her sentences are always carefully worked out and her grammar is always correct, even when she is writing in something weird like second-person past-perfect tense.

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Sign-ups for the next round of bibliophages have begun! The theme this time is school stories. I ended up posting a pretty frivolous list to the comm but I did also consider a more torturous literary list of books: Nobokov's PNIN, Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Louisa May Alcott's Little Men, and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran. (But I couldn't think of a fifth book...well, there was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, but I would never inflict that on someone else ever.) You know, books that are about education as much as about Hijinx. But then I remembered that I never finished some of these. XD; Others are encouraged to join in and recommend serious literature! We loves us some srs books too.

It occurs to me that someone better read in this field could probably also come up with a list that was entirely comprised of suggestive boys' boarding school titles. Such a list might hypothetically include:

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Maurice by E. M. Forster

And maybe also some thrillers, like The Secret History or The Night Climbers?

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