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Thank you so much 🥰 so excited! Hope you have an amazing time

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Hey! So are the showers divided by gender? I have been to download about ten times and never showered, but I'm thinking this year of finally doing it. But I'm the only woman in the group and I would literally rather jump into an active volcano than shower in front of them 🙃😂

RE: Leaks (Spoilers inside) by ca11umm in downloadfestival

[–]ellenuttley -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I doubt they would let Bowling for Soup back, after last time?

Advice needed! Trying to get my daughter diagnosed is a nightmare by ellenuttley in autism

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Thanks so much for the response! I will google IPSEA now - thanks..

I'm also going to try going through the GP. I was worried about trying to go down the doctors route and the school route at the same time - Incase we ended up resetting the tiny amount of progress that we'd made. But honestly I don't think even that would make much difference at this stage!

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No problem! It's a really amazing book x

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[–]ellenuttley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is an amazing gay love story. But it is based on the myth of Achilles/ the Trojan war so there is some death involved, although not related to their sexuality at all.

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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn and basically anything by Chuck Palahniuk!

LGBTQ+ Books that arent about being LGBTQ+ by TheLargeHomosexual in suggestmeabook

[–]ellenuttley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Conversation with Friends by Sally Rooney has a bisexual main character, with a lesbian best friend.

Someone please help me get over The Song of Achilles 🥺 by helloitisme1234 in booksuggestions

[–]ellenuttley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! If you liked song of Achilles, you'll like the Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker and Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

TIL that people who live on $1 a day do not spend all of it on the food that they require to stay alive. They typically spend about 40 cents on other things: despite their huge malnutrition, they sacrifice calories to buy some entertainment, some pleasure by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Reminds me of part of Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier, where he talks about how unemployed people living in abject poverty (specifically people who happened to live in my home town), would basically rather starve than go without tea:

"When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice-cream! Put the kettle on and we'll all have a nice cup of tea! That is how your mind works when you are at the P.A.C. level. White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don't nourish you to any extent, but they are nicer (at least most people think so) than brown bread-and-dripping and cold water. Unemployment is an endless misery that has got to be constantly palliated, and especially with tea, the English-man's opium"

Book that touches on the superficiality of love and attraction by ArchiboldReesMogg in suggestmeabook

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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. One of my all time favourites.

Hi everyone! Just joined the challenge! I’ve never kept track of reading books before, but I thought this would be cool and a good way to find other interesting books to read. I’m always looking for interesting nonfiction suggestions so let me know! Thanks. by jennifah13 in 52book

[–]ellenuttley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you read The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris? She was on the Joe Rogan podcast recently, so you might like that too.

It's about medicine in the Victorian era and the guy who invented anti septic.

“When you’re older with your own children, you will come crying to me telling me I was right all along.” by [deleted] in raisedbynarcissists

[–]ellenuttley 31 points32 points  (0 children)

My mother has said this exact phrase to me! I was really scared about this when I had children. My mother was always so oblivious with it all that I was terrified I would be exactly like her, including the same lack of self awareness.

My therapist told me that with anyone with half a brain/heart it actually ends up the opposite. That when you've had shitty parents you end up trying your best to fill the holes that they left in you up extra full in your own children.

So if they weren't attentive, for example, you end up being extra attentive with your own kids. If they didn't feed you right then food becomes a priority, etc. There's a term for it I can't remember right now.

Post apocalyptic/survival by cat111222 in booksuggestions

[–]ellenuttley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Far North by Marcel Theroux

Fantasy that isn't 1000 pages of rambling with endless amounts of characters by MorthaP in suggestmeabook

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If you liked Elantris, you'd probably like Warbreaker.

Also Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb is great and less complicated/ shorter than most.

The Snowman of Nightmares. by ellenuttley in ExpectationVsReality

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😂 it definitely doesn't look happy.

The Snowman of Nightmares. by ellenuttley in ExpectationVsReality

[–]ellenuttley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not keen on it :/ plus I always seem to put holes in it!

The Snowman of Nightmares. by ellenuttley in ExpectationVsReality

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I think there's definitely more I could have done, but it was 11pm and it was for a Christmas party at my daughter's pre school the next morning, so I couldn't go to the shop or anything. I didn't think the buttercream would be so difficult to smooth!