When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Juliet’s curiosity is piqued. She receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – by chance, he’s acquired a secondhand book that once belonged to Juliet – they begin a correspondence. It’s January, 1946, and writer Juliet Ashton sits at her desk, vainly seeking a subject for her next book. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer This list focuses on fiction, but watch this space for more! Whether it’s time constraints, difficulties reading, or just been ages since you’ve picked up a book, we’ve got the best recommendations of easy reads to foster a love for fiction, and build a habit out of reading.ġ. For those who find it tough to dig into their ever growing book pile, or want to join in book discussions but don’t know where to start, we’ve put together a list of brilliant easy read books for adults. The most important part of reading is your personal enjoyment of it. However you read, it’s important to remember that it’s not a race. Some people happily take months to finish one novel. I feel like it was her trying to hard sell it and make it sound more relevant than it is but one never knows till they ask.Being able to devour a book a week is a normal activity for some, but an impossibility for others. I know its an odd silly question but I was just curious. I feel like the CC was either talking out their butt or had been misled about the term but I figured I would come here and ask if anyone else had heard the term before. She couldn't tell me what it meant and aside from a reference to Code Geass (good anime but I doubt that's it) I haven't found anything. However, and to finally get to the question in the post, one of the curriculum coordinators (basically a teacher that got tired of being in a classroom and goes around telling teachers how to teach) at the school mentioned that the term 'Orangeboy' meant something in black British slang.

So 'Orangeboy' and some Hispanic-British poetry (Honestly did not know this was a thing) it is. I had never heard of it and hadn't been planning on using it but making British literature more inclusive for a racially diverse class was something my admin was wanting to do and something I see as a positive. Orangeboy is about a black London teen who gets dragged into gang life (Insert rant about old people thinking that everything has to involve street life to be relevant to teens) because a pretty girl asks him to hold her skittles. A few years ago a novel called Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence was released and along with winning a number of literary prizes for YA books it has also become a popular if hard to find addition to some British Literature classes as a way to include non-Anglo voices in the British Lit class.

Orangeboy book