A Curious Girl: Worrying English books

Hellooooooooooooo!

Invasion was OK this lunch time. Mad as always. Duck (as suggested by James) wrote 'SEX' on the board... this actually didn't get their attention as much as the opportunity of a board marker and whatever they wanted to write on the board. Some of the boys asked me if I'd ever had a boyfriend... a discussion which went a little downhill from there!

Anyhoo, having a normal kinda day... Double chem was mostly revision and entropy. Second period we spent on the revision questions... grr... I really hate it when they say 'Your data could suggest that this (theory that is untrue) is true. Suggest why.' Because I just don't see it, as my data had led me to the right conclusion as opposed to suggesting any untrue theory... does this mean I'm talented or I just worked it out wrong?

Later editing: I worked it out wrong.

Double English was all right... one lesson with Diggers doing Oranges are not the only fruit. I like the book but I don't like studying it. It's critical of the church, and whilst I know there's plenty to be critical of, just reading the introduction you can tell that Jeanette Winterson considers her criticisms to be all encompassing. It's worrying, I don't want people to think that God doesn't care... that his followers are all not only seriously misguided, but cold-hearted hypocrites. Of course, the only way for me to make this work personally is to not be a cold-hearted hypocrite. But... how can I put it? It's intimidating. Reading the book alone I can quite happily see that the attitudes portrayed by the Christians within are wrong, and I want no part in it, and I can just sit back and enjoy the story of a girl escaping those attitudes. But with others I feel like I have a part in it whether I like it or not, like I have to defend the fact that the God I worship is the God those Christians worship, and I have to explain what went wrong. Possibly explain that as a follower of God, I'm not going to end up like them. But not just go for the age-old 'They're not true Christians' argument.

Oh dear... I know I'm a spectacularly uninteresting person at times... making fiction interesting is much easier than fact, I think I'm actually much better at it.

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