Top Five things to do on a Friday night...

[slemslempike]

I am bored. I decided to stay in and watch Summer of Love and feel faintly petulant instead of going to the cinema, and it is rather dull. So, five things meme?

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[paranoidkitten.livejournal.com]

5 school story heroines?

5 favourite canonical relationships (books, movies, TV, whatever)?

5 best non-fiction books?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) Nicola Marlow. So capable. So understated heroic in the best traditions of the Service. So easily disconcerted in so many ways.
2) Jo from Jean Ure's Peter High books. Not a successful heroine, obviously.
3) Darrell's always rather good. She doesn't tail off as she gets older either, still very forceful and fun.
4) Catherins in Joanna Lloyd's Bramber Manor series. Not as oblivious as she seems, also hilarious.
5) Penny in A. Stephen Tring's books. There's a note in The Book that says that the author is clearly rather a bit too in love with her, which is kind of true, but she is great.

Hmm, any kind of relationship?
1) Paddy and Tucker's friendship in Soldier Soldier
2) Georgia and Dave the Laugh's kind of romance in the Georgia Nicolson books.
3) Kim Kelly and Lindsay Weir's friendship in Freaks and Geeks. It starts off all inimical, and then toleration, and then using, and then they run away together for the summer!
4) Harriet and Peter in the Winsey books.
5) Aubrey and Maturin's friendship in the Master and Commander books. Very loving.


1) The Best Type of Girl - Gillian Avery. History of girls' independent schools, wonderful background to any girlsowny book, with the social context.
2) Little Girls in Pretty Boxes - Joan Ryan. Slightly expose account of how young gymnasts and skaters are mistreated, and what this does to them and others.
3) Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by Women - short accounts of women using self-defence techniques and getting away from their attackers, very empowering.
4) Guerilla Girls' Confessions of the Guerilla Girls. Art activism - funny and wonderful.
5) Jane Sexes it Up - Merri Lisa Johnson. Collection of feminist writing on sex.