Susan Hated Literature

Dir & Writ: James Watkins

• Kelly Reilly … Jenny
• Michael Fassbender … Steve
• Bronson Webb … Reece
• Jack O’Connell … Brett
• Thomas Turgoose … Cooper
• Finn Atkins … Paige
• James Gandhi … Adam
• Thomas Gill … Ricky

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Jenny and Steve have a quiet weekend in the country planned. A romantic weekend, and Steve is bringing an engagement ring. Awww. Steve wants to show Jenny an abandoned quarry^[1] that he used to visit, the area is under construction, the one-time public park is being turned into a gated community called Eden Lake^[2] Which of course means that getting to the quarry lake involves going slightly off track through the woods. So when things turn bad be prepared for plenty of running through the trees.

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007189885 DDC: 823.92
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Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagére.

Kambili, the teenage narrator of the book, is a 15 year old girl. In many ways she lives a priveliged life in Nigeria. Her father owns factories; he is a “big man” in the community. A fact that is brought home to her when she visits her less well off aunt and cousins. But wealth doesn’t equal happiness. Kamibili and her brother Jaja live under the strict rules of their father and his fiercely religious beliefs.

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Dir: Jason Reitman
Writ: Diablo Cody

• Ellen Page … Juno MacGuff
• Michael Cera … Paulie Bleeker
• Jennifer Garner … Vanessa Loring
• Jason Bateman … Mark Loring
• Allison Janney … Bren MacGuff
• J.K. Simmons … Mac MacGuff
• Olivia Thirlby … Leah

Juno is 16. And pregnant. At first she thinks she’ll have an abortion, but changes her mind, she’ll continue to be pregnant but she isn’t interested in being a Mommy. She’ll give the baby up for adoption. So she takes a look in the PennySaver, which I’m guessing is similar to our Buy & Sell, and finds a couple she thinks will make good parents.

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They have arrived.

Without warning, every single year they come, hordes of them. Milling about the city. Causing untold damage. Spreading out, taking over, like a virus of some sort. No bus is safe. No street remains unoccupied. Swarming about. Legions of them descend upon the city, and for months we know nothing but irritation. And annoyance. There is plenty of that too.

They’re here.

Yes, that’s right, the bloody invasion of the Spanish students has begun. I hadn’t seen any before this week, but on Tues as I made my way home from work I spotted a group of teenagers, all with the exact same blue bag. I knew what that meant. And yesterday there were more, gathered about the spire, lurking, preparing to move out, getting in everyone’s way.

I hate Spanish student season.

Why is it that they must travel in groups of no fewer than ten thousand? And why is it that they move at a speed that is slower than a snail’s? And why is it that the spread across the expanse of the streets and force other pedestrians to either slow to their crawl or force their way through.

And teenager’s are annoying. Irritations when they are the usual groups of 2, 5, whatever, loud and obnoxious. But when you bump up the numbers you bump up the irritation factor. Screaming, shouting, urgh, it is enough to turn anyone into a Grumpy Old Woman.

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Don’t you just love it when, as you are drifting off to sleep, annoying teenagers start conversing right outside the window. Course, I am on the second floor, but these were teenage girls screaming at each other, and our street is quite the echo-y place at the quietest of times.And then someone else arrived, a father or an elder brother and started shouting at one of them to “get the fuck home”. Which resulted in yet more screams and then tears and then more shouts. But finally silence.

Bloody people, living their lives.

And I’m betting I’ll have a lot more of it to deal with. Summer has arrived, which of course means the end of school. Which means teenagers having so much more free time, and we all know what the devil does with idle hands don’t we?

Speaking of idle hands, if you have some, can you go here and vote for something. Cause it doesn’t seem to be working. Which is odd, as it totally was. I must have changed something somewhere… Nevermind, problem solved, all down to whether or not I had the www in front of the susanhated bit. It has to be there for the voting to work.

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