No, I will have to hunt that one out to complete the set. Dare I guess from sundry "hints" in Susan Coolidge's characteristically heavy-handed prose that he ends up with Elsie? Or was she just cleverly misdirecting me like when she seemed to be setting him up with Clover at the start?

Don't even... I just finished reading Clover (free on the Kindle, any What Katy Did fans), and I am still struggling with the fact that SPOILER she did not get with Clarence Page! I cannot be dealing with your anachronistic Anne of Green Gables right frickin' now. It may be heading into William Shatner version of…

A lot of commenters so far have pointed out that the girls book actually contains far more useful day-to-day advice than the boy one. I would just say that, while I do agree with this, the really problematic aspect is the way it pitches different aspirations to each gender. The ground covered in the girls book is…

What if the T-Rex turns out to be a fremeny?! What then?! ... Oh, there's a section on that. Excellent.

Oh Lord, I came here to post exactly this. It's like a training manual for creating obedient housewives! Teaching girls to fixate on their looks, soothe other peoples' feelings and keep their focus on the home (seriously, 90% of those tips relate to either home or school, whereas most of the boy ones reference foreign…

"is there a way to install somebody as First Lady for life?"

Most of these were frighteningly awful, but I have to confess that I found the How To Be Classy one cute in its own way, with a lot of the advice still relevant to developing a good character (albeit with a distinct 1950s end-of-Leave-It-To-Beaver-monologue edge).

Our children will laugh when we tell them stories about how in the old days we used to just rub pages over our necks.

Y'ever had falafel?

You must mix in very restricted circles, seeing as her approval rating has remained high since she took the throne and anecdata in day-to-day life suggests most people, even those not particularly attached to the monarchy, like her personally.

No way, I admire her hugely. I wouldn't trade places with her for any amount of money or spiffy hats. She is over twenty years past retirement age and still has to spend every day travelling up and down the country, making small talk with boring people and being on her best behaviour at all times, instead of playing…

Another Camilla fan! I always think she'd be a great laugh. I see her as a gin tonics and poker night sort of gal.

Speak for yourself, I do little else :D

Sorry if I sounded aggressive, I just wanted to stress that there is no way to compare Judaism and Christianity in terms of the cultural and ethnic ties which exist separately to the Jewish faith. At a yeshiva you would probably also be moved/kicked out. Which I know you know :D , just that's what I meant with that,…

It's also known, perhaps only in the UK, as "The Glums" :D

Not a fair comparison, IMO. You think these "scholarships" (strange word considering you presumably don't have to do anything academic for them) are provided by Orthodox Jewish groups? Unlikely. They are almost definitely provided by secular Jewish groups, and Christianity doesn't have anything to compare with the…

Yes, that was my thought, too. Woop-de-doop if you come from a socio-economic background sufficiently well-developed to cover the costs for its own. It would be far better if anyone who needed that service could get it for free as they do in my country (not to boast - most of Western Europe, too), rather than having…

I'm all for realistic grime etc., but I hope and pray that Hugh Jackman has that beard for less than ten minutes.

Technically accurate use of the Bible, but I think you'd have to be being wilfully obtuse to claim that the headscarf is a Christian symbol.

The whole saying "metro" and not "THE metro" thing is making me read that guy's letter in a Buster Bluth voice for some reason.