Girl, Nearly 16: Absolute Torture.GIRL, NEARLY 16, ABSOLUTE TORTURE. Sue Limb Sue Limb (born 1946, Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British writer and broadcaster. She studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at Cambridge and then trained in education. She has not taught since 1982 – at London's Pentonville Prison. . 2005. Read by Katherine Kellgren. 5 cds. 6 hrs. Listening Library. 0-3072-4339-7 $35.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. JS This second book about Jess, following Girl, 15, Charming but Insane, adapts beautifully to audio, especially with Kellgren's zippy, fully voiced reading. Going on an unexpected "holiday" with her mum and granny, while not what Jess wants to do, turns out to be the best time of her life and gives her the opportunity to visit and discover so much about her dad. She tries to sort out the reasons behind her parents' break-up, figure out if Fred really loves her and how to get Granny to give up Grandpa's ashes. Kellgren gives 16-year-old Jess youthful impatience; she gives Jess's morn a voice that is a bit overwrought o·ver·wrought adj. 1. Excessively nervous or excited; agitated. 2. Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone: overwrought prose style. , but still sweet. Granny is appropriately frail sounding, with a sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. , funny, morbid side. Kellgren has no trouble capturing Fred, the very cool boyfriend of the moment; Jess's dad, apprehensive and artistic; and of course, Phil, dad's unexpected boyfriend. While it's true that the market seems flooded with these tongue-in-cheek British girl teen books, Limb brings such a sweet freshness to these characters that this series is well worth a listen and/or read. Sally Tibbetts, LRC (Longitudinal Redundancy Check) An error checking method that generates a parity bit from a specified string of bits on a longitudinal track. In a row and column format, such as on magnetic tape, LRC is often used with VRC, which creates a parity bit for each , Maine West HS, Des Plaines Des Plaines, city, United States Des Plaines (dĕs plānz), city (1990 pop. 53,223), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1925. Among its manufactures are chemicals and electronic equipment. , IL |
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