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Load up a good book and you’ll soon forget you’re reading plastic rather than paper. You’ll also wonder how you ever did without it. The Kindle makes buying, storing, and organizing your favorite books and magazines effortless. You can take your entire library with you wherever you go and switch from reading the latest New Yorker to the latest best-seller without rolling out of bed. In my few days using it, I was won over: The Kindle is the future of publishing

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The amazing Amazon Kindle is bad news for the publishing industry. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

W. Somerset Maugham
1874 – 1965
English playwright, novelist and short story writer

Here are the notes from the other day about the themes in Montana 1948.

Also next week we will be working on essay structure and writing. You might want to check these notes.

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

Robert Benchley
1889 – 1945
British humourist

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

Marquis de la Grange
1639 – 1692

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.”

Henny Youngman
1906 – 1998
British comedian

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

Tom Stoppard
1937 -
British screenwriter and playwright

This quotation is a personal favourite of mine. I first read it years ago and remember it word for word.

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THOUSANDS of private school students have been asked to send naked pictures of themselves by mobile phone or the internet, and many more have been subjected to upsetting emails or online messages.

Pupils subject to phone ‘sexting’ | theage.com.au

Just last week we read an American article about the dangers of sexting for teenagers and here it is in the Australian news.

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881
Russian fiction writer, essayist and philosopher

Liked this comic strip and you might get something out of it.

Partially Clips

In class this Thursday we will be doing a task involving an article about sexting. If you missed class you can find the entire task by following this link.

Textual Misconduct – Red Space Rocket Wiki

“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”

Jackie Mason
1936 -
Comedian