I re-read girls under pressure for the first time in probably about 16 years. Still as descriptive about binge eating and bulimia as I remember
It's an awful way to portray EDs in a 13 year old (who acts about 17) then aiming it at adolescents. Ellie's very suddenly 'cured' at the end too, so unrealistic.I re-read girls under pressure for the first time in probably about 16 years. Still as descriptive about binge eating and bulimia as I remember
Fanny is weirdly not an uncommon name as a shortening for Frances in France and other European countries. Iāve met a couple of Fannies and it stops being funny once youāre used to it strangely Fell out of use in the UK for obvious reasons but surely the slangās been around since the 50s or 60s?Is it just Dick and Fanny together that are deemed unacceptable?
I used to know a Dick in real life, but he was at least 50. Never met a Fanny.
I dont have children but choosing names must be a minefieldIt makes me wonder which names we have now will end up being slang in a few decades - imagine a fairly inoffensive name like Jess coming to mean penis
A modern example is āKarenāIt makes me wonder which names we have now will end up being slang in a few decades - imagine a fairly inoffensive name like Jess coming to mean penis
The name Corey already means penis where I'm fromIt makes me wonder which names we have now will end up being slang in a few decades - imagine a fairly inoffensive name like Jess coming to mean penis
The dad in Candyflossi know!! the times where she does try and make them āniceā they turn into absolute wet blankets (to my memory anyway ) iām desperately trying to remember a decent JW man now.
My daughters reading Diamond Girls as her school reading book ATM. Not loving it myself but we aren't that far in.The dad in Candyfloss
Bruce from The Diamond Girls (I think?)
Exactly this, I had a really dysfunctional childhood and her books felt comforting.I hate the fact itās a trend on TikTok atm today her books were sooooo traumatising how were kids even allowed to read them???
As a child who grew up in an abusive home I devoured them! They werenāt traumatising, they were real. Every other book had perfect families and it was just not relatable for me. Her books made me feel normal almost? Like I knew other children at school had these perfect families and it was nice to know I wasnāt alone
i totally agree with this. one of the first JW books I read was the Suitcase Kid at a time when my parents were going through a very messy divorce & didn't know any other kids at the time whose parents were divorced - or certainly not due to an affair, and then court battles and arguments - it was awful, but reading that book made me feel less alone, and help "normalise" the idea of parent's divorcing and the horrible situations it can cause, and reassured me that it as just me going through it.I hate the fact itās a trend on TikTok atm today her books were sooooo traumatising how were kids even allowed to read them???
As a child who grew up in an abusive home I devoured them! They werenāt traumatising, they were real. Every other book had perfect families and it was just not relatable for me. Her books made me feel normal almost? Like I knew other children at school had these perfect families and it was nice to know I wasnāt alone
Oh gosh I remember This Girl. Itās noteworthy because it ended with the protagonist in a relationship with another woman, in the early 80s and almost 40 years before Wilson came out!I was a bit too old for most of JWās books, but I did love a couple of her earlier books - one called This Girl, which was about a girl called Coral who goes to work as a nanny for a very middle-class family, and a short series called something like Is There Anybody There? which was about a teenage girl who keeps being possessed by the spirit of a Victorian girl. I remember really loving those although the first one was quite āadultā in its themes.
i love that, in the way that at the time she was still married to her now ex-husband and potentially used her writing as a way to explore how she was feeling in regards to her own sexuality in a "safe" way, if that makes sense. like at the time, it wouldn't have been as socially acceptable if she had come out, and who knows at what point in her life she realised she was attracted to women, so in the same way that her children's books explore topics that kids who relate to them likely felt alone in experiencing, it's like she wrote a book that helped her explore or express how she was feeling - and then went on to actually live it out and marry a woman!Oh gosh I remember This Girl. Itās noteworthy because it ended with the protagonist in a relationship with another woman, in the early 80s and almost 40 years before Wilson came out!