Totally. English is not my first language so a lot of the little details or word plays would be lost to me until I saw the play. The work of the actor, their voice inflection, and the stage allowed me to fully understand the play.
It's interesting that many people on here seem to be into (classic) literature (myself included). Maybe that's how some of us discovered Ruby. I'd love to have another thread or separate forum to talk about books.
Oh help - now I've got that thought in my head. She'll pretend humility and try to arrange her face so she doesn't look smug. Urgh
My first thought omg. She is touching her opponent's piece. But she probably doesn't even know how to play chess. Ugh she is ridiculousWhy is she moving a black piece despite having white pawnshow is that a chess game without any piece of an opponent
Thanks I didn't even realise that was a thing.
Or maybe she's applying for some 'manuscript studies' MA since she's explaining her interest in that area. See the part above the red highlighted area - 'this is why manuscripts are so important'. I wonder if something along those lines will have a higher acceptance rate than an English lit course?
I was surprised that she never seemed to do this. Even if her school didn’t have much in the way of Oxbridge support, information about the format of an English Lit. Oxbridge interview is easily available online and practicing a response to unseen poetry or prose would have been much better preparation, like you say. I don’t know if things have changed but unseen texts were definitely part of my A-Level English Lit. exams, I have a vague memory of mine being something from F. Scott Fitzgerald …Haha that made me laugh but it's so true. She made a big mistake with her revision folders. A much better preparation would have been to choose a poem at random, give herself 5-10 mins to annotate it, answer questions from a teacher/parent, then research the poem to see if her points are supported by the info that's online. That way she'd get used to analysing new literature under timed conditions.Idk why she did it in such a rigid way.
I'm just imaging her choking on her toothbrush when she enters FrostnipistanShe gets out of bed in her Snoopy pajamas, reads Prince Harry’s masterpiece while brushing her teeth, has green tea, eats breakfast, reads thirty pages, does some research, reads a middle grade book so she can recommend it to the other school children, goes outside, plans her day, checks her email, drinks iced coffee, and conveniently omits the fact that mummy/daddy/grandma drive her to school
Oh and on days she’s not working, she goes to ballet class with her grandmother.
The funny thing is that I think the primary reason that the Ruby Granger thread is so active is that a lot of people find it by being curious about what her true surname is. So by clinging so desperately to the GrAnGeR lIfEsTyLe instead of making friends with her true self as Ruby Bones, she leads a lot of people here.1) she wouldn’t lol, constructive criticism = bullying
2) please for the love of god people DONOT
When she said that, I actually said 'noo!' out loud- When she said "a phoenix, if you please". She must be so exhausted from cosplaying all the time.
Someone in the house asked me if I was ok lolSee it doesn't have to be the best time of your life but you should make an effort to make it a great time! My experience has been so enriched by clubs and societies for example. At the end of my spring semester last year all my friends had gone home and my flight was booked a week after they'd left. Sraying home in my dorm made me miserable and stir crazy. I'm extroverted but at that point I was crying out for human connection lol.
£83 for something that is presented as jumble????
Good luck for your impending interviews, you got this!
Holly has a background in dance, doesn't she? Combine that with a high potential for orthorexia and the knock-on exercise addiction, even the most self-aware individuals with an ED will find it hard to fully recover. Just checked in on Holly's vid and I have to agree with you that she isn't recovered. I'm no medical expert but I did dance (ballet, then into latin/ballroom) from age 3-19 and it took me such a long time to recover from my ED. I got pregnant in the early stages of my recovery and I feel it is what helped me into full recovery. But I notice those who do calorie restriction, body checks, false claims of recovery. Holly is one of those. I also notice Ruby did a bit of a body check with her tights or leggings or whatever recently. However I feel about those two girls, I really do hope they can properly recover.
I'm surprised she's reading Spare. I guess she's jumping on the popular book bandwagon, but it's still nothing like her usual reading material. It's also not what I expected from Ruby, girl who tries to avoid all controversial opinions.
Thats the problem. The freckle thing and especially the failure to admit that she doesn't really have them...it shows how desperate she is to remain a child. To me, its an indication of the state of her mental well-being. I don't want to be mean but I do think that intake personnel at Oxford have considered her mental health when looking at her application. Not because they are discriminating against people with mental health struggles but because they don't want students to have their mental health worsened by the very demanding teaching style of their institution.
I said this yesterday actually. She has quite lovely skin. Why fake freckles? I guess some people think its cute. Shrug.
