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Required reading
A quick education on getting an education
Published: August 29, 2012
Sample:
You know how to theorize and summarize,
How to indentify ideologies in the texts you read.
You do very well on the reading comprehension portion of the test.
But no one said a word about following a trail of common sense
Through the underbrush of the sentences themselves.
No one explained the whole life of the language
Lies in the solidity of the sentences and cannot be extracted.
F My Life World Tour: Life's Crappiest Moments from Around the World
by Maxime Valette, Gaullaume Passaglia and Didier Guedj
Berkley Publishing Group, $15, 197 pp.
This successor to the earlier F My Life, which in turn was a spin-off from the website FmyLife.com, doesn't exactly teach or advise. It does help you put your woes — and there will be woes — in context.
Sample:
Today I went to a secluded mountain my boyfriend took me to for our first date. As I saw another couple hooking up in the bushes, I phoned my boyfriend to tell him someone found our secret spot. His Bob Marley ringtone started playing from the bush. FML
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