In school, what book might you have hidden behind your textbook?
In school, what book might you have hidden behind your textbook?
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In school, what book might you have hidden behind your textbook?
Um, I didn’t, I actually concentrated on my grades. Plus, my Lit classes GAVE us books! I had plenty of awesome stuff to read that I didn’t have to hide!
A Stephen King book! Always!?❤️
YES LAD
I got told off for reading Thinner at school ?
@Angela Same!???
Me too! I read everything of his as a teenager, 20-odd years ago!
Literally anything I could get my hands on. I was a voracious reader but still managed to keep my grades up ?
I didn’t bother with grades; doing homework took away from my reading, and my reading taught me enough that I could still pass the tests!
Me too.
Vampire diaries or any Anne rice/vc andrews!
Anything. I don’t have a particular pull towards any one kind of book.
It was pretty random with me, as well. =D
The outsiders ….way way long ago lol
Stay gold!
Brenda Joyce books! Steamy stories and other historical romances.
Any book I was currently reading.
I did that in elementary school. I cant remember what book it was though
A Sweet Dreams, a Jackie Collins or anything I could get.
Harry Potter. I literally could not put it down. It was that addicting!
If I’d had it, maybe some Camus or Wittgenstein?
Usually a David Eddings or Terry Brooks. But I didn’t even bother to hide them. lol
Mary Higgins Clark books through every class
In God We Trust, by Jean Shepherd, and Ball Four by Jim Bouton. Couldn’t stop reading them, even in class.
Something about British history.
I once got in trouble for reading about the Pacific War instead of paying attention to a class on Nazis. Huzzah for those of us actually learning something! =D
Prisoner of Zenda. It was in our syllabus but our teacher was quite slow and way behind me…
*Raises hand* Mr. Teacher, did you really read the book or did you get this lecture off the internet?
Sweet Valley High
I remember those
Not without my daughter, harry potter and 11 minutes
I’m a total geek Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys
Goosebumps in elementary, Harry potter in middle and high school
probably a murder mystery or a true crime story or a medical journal
I always kept on top of my grades but i always had a book with me in case i finished my school work before end of class.
Flowers in the Attic
Anything by V.C. Andrews.
Goosebumps!!
V.C Andrews too!
The Sword of Shannara,
Terry Brooks FTW.
Still have the originals I bought in 77.
I was only six in 1977 so I didn’t get mine until I was ten.
I was 17 lol
Still not that much older than I am.
I was 10 in 77, LOL…
The Godfather
On my list, gotta read that soon…
I did not!!! I sat in the back of most classes and openly read whatever had caught my interest that day… If you’re asking what I read back then?? Pretty much the same sorts of things I read now… I learned how to Tesser, tame a wild stallion, whitewash a fence, raise orphaned woodland creatures, and survive in almost any kind of wilderness… I’ve solved several mysteries, and thwarted many an evil genius hellbent on world destruction/domination, I’ve found lost civilizations, recovered amazing treasures… I’ve traversed entire continents, I have a firm grasp of what the center of the earth is like, I’ve been to the depths of the ocean, ridden on the backs of elephants (And Dragons!!!), and even spent 5 amazing weeks in a hot air balloon once. I know almost every inch of Narnia, Pern, Arrakis, Prydain, certain parts of Ye Olde England, I’ve seen the top of Mount Olympus and been to the bottom most pit of Hades demesne…
Just to name a few 😉
Why in the world would you bother learning to whitewash a fence when there’s a perfectly good guide on how to get others to do it for you? =D
I once got mad at my French teacher because she wanted me to stop worrying about the end of the world and pay attention to her daughter’s wedding photos…
Well now.. I didn’t say I did the whitewashing… But I DID learn how…
I actually had to learn how to make whitewash several years ago… I worked as Grunt at a little hillbilly ratnet television station, and my boss needed it for a prop on one of the shows. All I remember now is that you needed lye.
As for teachers… I only had ONE ever really challenge my reading. Mr Korsborne in 8th grade English. He called me out one day, and I basically told the room he was a fool, then proved it. The next week I found myself in the highschool class where the teacher dealt with me by insisting I read more challenging stuff. He gave me To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Which if anyone enjoyed Mockingbird and the Steinbeck, I strongly suggest reading that one too… Carson McCullers, author) and gave me like a couple months to read and report… I had them back to him within two weeks. After that?? You guessed it… I sat in the back of his class and read whatever caught my interest that day. Only difference was I had to write reports on my reading 😉
I would warn each of my teachers that I read too much and they all claimed that was impossible, I proved them all wrong…
Although it was a near thing with my seventh grade English teacher, she was usually content to leave me to my own devices. I noticed that every time she changed the seating arrangement she put me next to the classroom library. When she did (rarely) insist on my classroom participation she was just an outstanding teacher, overall. I noticed that the more a teacher complained about my reading, the worse their overall teaching ability tended to be.
(Rule does not apply to activity classes, reading does not make one a better violinist, practice does. ? )
(Putting ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter on my reading list now…)
It’s a good one… One of those harsh reality “It was the times” kind of books. There are some brutal truths, stark realities… Like how Old Yeller ends :\ Still recommend it if those kind of stories don’t “set you off”.
I generally find ‘harsh reality’ type books to be cathartic… minus the dogs.
(What kind of fourth grade teacher makes their students read and watch Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows in the same month!?!?!)
Don’t think I’ve ever seen Where the Red Fern Grows… Read it several times though.
@Cindy It’s pretty good, give it a view sometime… just not a week after Old Yeller.
I can’t watch the disney classics anymore, so no worries there. Probably won’t see the Red Fern movie either… I made that mistake with My Friend Flicka… Almost ruined Roddy McDowell for me.
If you can’t take the dog dying, get out of the theater. Wisdom.
Nah… it’s not about the dead dog… It’s about them murdering my favorite books. The original Flicka movie is a perfect example. There is no Howard. Kenny’s main antagonist is this stupid little girl who’s supposed to be like, his cousin or something… Howard plays a critical role in the first Flicka book. He torments Kenny in a way that only siblings can, and they lost a lot of the impact when they replaced that character with a simpering child. The film industry is nothing more than fan fiction writers when it comes to basing movies off books… And I HATE fan fiction.
Unless you’re talking about the disney classics… That’s got nothing to do with anything in the movies. It’s got to do with who I used to watch them with
Nostalgic memories, I hope.
As for films, that’s a complicated issue with me.
On the one hand; I’ve been watching the classics so I’m painfully aware of how low the modern film industry has fallen. Can you imagine Twelve Angry Men today? Probably not. Whenever somebody mentions making a book into a movie -even a book I hate- I just cringe at the thought of how much havoc the film makers are going to wreck.
On the other hand, I somehow married a film and TV addict, and these days if you don’t want a mindless action flick it’s got to be based off a spectacular book. (Which they will slaughter, but it will be less painful to watch than what Hollywood hacks write on their own.)
If I hadn’t married my TV/Film addict… yes, I would still watch the occasional mindless action flick. I was raised on disaster movies. =D
Oh I don’t mind bad movies… if they’re original. Kinda have a thing for them actually *She says while she has Ash vs Evil Dead on pause to reply* And there’s a few movies that aren’t TOO far off from the book. Current authors actually have an edge over classic authors there.. JK Rowling demonstrated this quite accurately (even though I believe it ruined her brainspawn). Current authors have the benefit of writing knowing full well (even hoping, maybe) their work could end up on screen. They’re already partially writing a screenplay. Another favorite example would be the Narnia books vs movie. CS Lewis wrote a less than action packed fairy tale, yet the movie has battles and chases which NEVER entered Lewis’ mind, and they’re in the movie because it sells tickets. I’m honestly surprised hollywood didn’t write in a sex scene or two in these newest insults to the actual words on the page :\
@Cindy I’ve just recently read a fascinating perspective on battles in the Chronicles of Narnia. The biographer (Alan Jacobs, The Narnian) argues that CS Lewis’s portrayals of battles and fights in the Chronicles of Narnia are closer to writings of WWI combat veterans (which Lewis was) describing their own experiences than to any other 1950’s children’s writers. This made Lewis’s Chronicles the most thrilling children’s books of their time.
I think Lewis would be more upset with how clean everything was, with Susan kissing Prince Caspian, and -of course- with the company made by Disney getting anywhere near his books. (Lewis once referred to Disney as ‘the poor boob’. The only parts of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that Lewis seemed to enjoy were the scary, exciting scenes.)
OH!!! Oh see!?! I knew it… I JUST KNEW IT!! I knew hollywood had to muck around with the romance of it… And SUSAN?? No. There is NOTHING in the books to suggest Susan with Caspian. He would have been more Lucy’s age in Prince Caspian, and Susan never made it on to the Dawn Treader, at which point he would have been too old for her. We all know he ends up with the star’s daughter anyway… Gawd… I bet they turn Jill and Eustice into a couple for Rillian’s story or worse yet, play up the bondage with the silver chair *rolls eyes*
Who knows what they’ll do with the Silver Chair. Apparently they’ve decided that rather than recasting one child actor and one voice actor, the film is going to be a total ‘reboot’.
Bondage hasn’t been a drastic problem in Hollywood films… is there something you need to confess, my child? ?
Bless me father for I have sinned. It has been over an hour since I smoked. (One of these days, I’m gonna die and whatever higher power is out there is gonna give me the lecture from hell on my lack of respect for religion 3:) )
Hahaha Just an illustration of how much they like to warp books… With all the attention that shades of shit franchise got, I would not be a bit surprised if they tried it…
For the love of all that is written and published, that series was NOT good bondage!! It was the farcical fantasy of an ignorant mind!
Crap, now I have to got to confession…
Honestly… I wouldn’t know. I refused to read it. But I understand there’s a lot of… Lessee how to keep this clean… non-traditional uhhh methods of… ummmm…. Yeah I got nothing. I understand it was a dirty book with several features only a masochistic sadist would find enjoyable.
Godfather
In junior high, something by either SE Hinton or Cynthia Voigt. In high school, anything by Robin Hardy (*not* from Wicker Man–different author). But I usually enjoyed the Lit class required reading, so if I wasn’t in that class (or supposed to be doing something else), it would’ve been one of those.
In Jr. high I read Babysitter’s club, was actually caught, the teacher thought it was funny among other books, but that is the one I got caught with reading behind my textbooks.
Forever by Judy Blume.
That was kind of controversial book at the time
The Tomorrow Series
I’m old so probably Endless Love or Flowers in the Attic lol
Anything by Agatha Christie. I always had the nice leather bound editions because of my granny.
I also got in trouble for reading more than one book at a time
“Miss Pierce, I need your attention up front please! Pierce put that book down it’s not part of your assignment!! Pierce I’m going to take that book!!
*teacher takes book*
*pulls out a different copy*
It never made any sense to me. “Put that book away, you’re being disruptive to the learning environment!”
*Looks around* “I’m in the back row! How am I ‘disrupting’ anybody?!?”
(I still associate the words ‘disruptive’ and ‘distracting’ with bad teachers/leaders.)
Anything by Jafar Iqbal
HP
I remember doing this with Little Women! I went through a Chalres Dickens stage, and would read him also!
Too many to name..flowers for algernon, go ask alice, i never promised you a rose garden, salem’s lot, spooky stories, alred hitchcovk’s investigator series, mysteries,
I was such a nerd, I was reading the actual book assignment. ?
In those years, I was obsessed with suspense and detective literature. And there were so many of them.
Before class every day, we were to read something for 20 mins, but there was a kid in class , who kept these little pocket sized novels behind his text books. We all carried them,they were usually things like 20000 Leagues under the Sea or The Martian Chronicles , some of were pocket editions of the classics White Fang or Oliver Twist. My Mom used to sell them in the Toy and Stationary departments at an old store like Woolco.
My mom used to work at Woolco. =)
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Those little pocket novels ,were the perfect size.They had a hard cover and seemed to be illustrated by some of the artists who designed record albums,. The illustrations were bright psychedelic things,screamed fantasy….Pardon me for going on.
When I was in middle school, or “junior high” as we called it in those days, a teacher caught me hiding Thorne Smith’s “Topper Takes a Trip” behind my textbook. He confiscated it. I complained to my mother, in hopes she could get it back for me, and she said,”Why did you buy a copy of that? We have it!” And pointed the original hardcover out to me on our bookshelves.
Something about horses!
Maze Runner
VC Andrews
forgot the author but it was The man with the golden arm I hid it in Chemistry class.