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I’m reading the Beatles Lyrics book at the moment. I checked it out of a library!
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13 November 2016
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^ Is it your book or did you check it out of a library, @GardeningOctopus?Is there a nifty little fact you’ve learned from the book that you can share with us? Just anything you didn’t already know…don’t worry if you think others may already know it. We all have to take our Beatles baby steps.
@Ahhh Girl It’s my own book, I got it for my birthday (it was a very Beatles oriented birthday!)
I don’t have the book near me, but off the top of my head I think I remember reading that Ringo had started writing Don’t Pass Me By in the early years of the group. May not be the best song, but hey, we can’t all be Paul McCartney ‘s and John Lennon ‘s!
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@Ahhh Girl It’s my own book, I got it for my birthday (it was a very Beatles oriented birthday!)
I don’t have the book near me, but off the top of my head I think I remember reading that Ringo had started writing Don’t Pass Me By in the early years of the group. May not be the best song, but hey, we can’t all be Paul McCartney ‘s and John Lennon ‘s!
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13 November 2016
Offline @meanmistermustard Thank you so much for that! I do feel bad for Ringo and George since it seems as though they got pushed aside for awhile when it came to recording…
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Pretty good so far although I’m only about 60 pages in.
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18 April 2013
Offline I’m reading The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case.
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23 July 2016
Offline I think you will agree, if you love The Beatles, guitars, and minute details, you will love this book.
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Anne Of Green Gables...
I’ve not read it in years, but did read it many times.
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15 February 2015
Offline Now Shakespeare’s sonnets, in order. They’re very good.
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Now Shakespeare’s sonnets, in order. They’re very good.
Very bad more like it. Mushy too. Of course I hate Shakespeare’s poems/plays in general.
I’m reading an Oxford Book Of Verse.
I am you as you are you as you are you and you are all together.
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Now Shakespeare’s sonnets, in order. They’re very good.
Oh I love Shakespeare, although I amn’t really that mad for his sonnets. Really I should spend more day reading them.
I plan on doing a Shakespeare summer once I have college finished this semester and I’m really looking forward to it. I reread Hamlet a few weeks ago and he just gets better and better the more you read him I think.
Obligatory David Tennant sonnet clip
I used to recite his sonnets quite a bit for drama competitions that I used to do (they always scored well, everyone loves a bit of Shakespeare).
Sonnet 71
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.
One of the poems on the Irish syllabus is inspired by the famous Sonnet 130 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”. And because I feel in a generous mood I’ll do a translation for you all:
My Lover (In Brackets)
My lover
Isn’t like blackthorn leaves
That lie in gardens
(Or any tree)
And if he has anything to do
with daisies
It’s out of his ears they’ll grow
(When he’s 8 feet under).
His eyes
Aren’t musical streams
(They’re too close to one another
For the first thing)
And if silk is fine
His strands of hair
Are like Shakespeare’s black woman
Prickly wire
But I don’t care
He gives me apples
(And when he’s in a good mood
Grapes)
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Yeah the 17/18 year olds really love it 
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15 February 2015
Offline I really love that sonnet, @AppleScruffJunior, and that poem was lovely and hilarious — thanks for the translation! 
s to our polyglot queen.
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Branagh wrote this when he was 28 and he’s 56 now so that’s quite a while ago. I’m about 70 pages in and loving it, I admire him greatly as an actor and I think it’s such a pity he isn’t doing as many roles as he did in the 90’s. Truly wonderful actor and (as I’ve just learned) a really engaging and funny writer.
I love all of his descriptions of his time at RADA (the dream uni *sighs*, one day I’ll audition for it, one day). It looks to be a 5 star read for me!
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John O’Farrell’s An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge.
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28 March 2014
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1 November 2013
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If you're reading this, you are looking for something to do.
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Offline I’ve already learned new stuff. But, hey, it was free, so I’m not complaining!
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