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Hi.

Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - September 2019

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September is banned books month and once again we’ll be examining the new books that have been banned this year and talking about the books and authors who continually make the list of challenged and banned books.

The kids are back in school and the leaves will soon be turning colors. If you have children, will you be an empty nester for the first time or are you at the start of the wonderful journey of parenthood? 

With cooler weather coming, it’s important to adjust your exercise routine, so you don’t become sedentary.

Linda Cahill will have some delicious fall recipes to share from the Pampered Chef and Tanya Bashor of Gypsy Artistry will be conducting some fun workshops to make fall crafts for your home.

Orlando Bartro will be back with something brilliant and we’ll have some exciting stories from our guest contributors.

In September, we will publish the second story about woman immigrating to the United States. This story is about a woman from South America and I hope it will enlighten our readers about the many perils immigrants face.

We’ll have a fun quiz and some more suggestions for books you and your family should be reading.

See you next month!

Fran

 

Answers to the August 2019 School Daze Quiz:

Songs:

"Art School Girl" by Stone Temple Pilots

"Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd

“Be True to Your School” by The Beach Boys

“Don’t Forget to Remember Me” by Carrie Underwood

“Don’t Stand so Close to Me” by the Police

“Fifteen” by Taylor Swift

“Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen

“No Such Thing” by John Mayer

“Rock N’ Roll High School by the Ramones

“School” by Nirvana

“School Days” by Chuck Berry

“School’s Out” by Alice Cooper

“The HardWay” by The Kinks

“Too Cool for School” by Fountains of Wayne

“We’re going to be Friends” by The White Stripes

Books:

A Separate Peace by John Knowles also a movie starring Parker Stevenson

Carrie by Stephen King also a movie starring Sissy Spacek

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie also a movie starring David Suchet

Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Lewis also a movie starring Olivia Cooke

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro also. A movie starring Carey Mulligan

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Blackboard Jungle by Ed McBain also a movie (Blackboard Jungle) starring Glenn Ford

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier also a movie starring John Glover

The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling also a movie series starring Daniel Radcliffe

The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy also a movie starring David Keith

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton also a movie starring Matt Dillon

The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky also a movie starring Emma Watson

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides also a movie starring Kirsten Dunst

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is also a movie starring Billy Bob Thornton and a TV series starring Kyle Chandler

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Movies:

Animal House is a movie starring John Belushi

Dangerous Minds is a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer

Dead Poets Society is a movie starring Robin Williams

Easy A is a movie starring Emma Stone

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a movie starring Sean Penn

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a movie starring Matthew Broderick

High School Musical is a movie starring Zac Efron

Mean Girls is a movie starring Lindsay Lohan

Napoleon Dynamite is a movie starring Jon Heder

School of Rock is a movie starring Jack Black

She’s All That is a movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr.

Stand and Deliver is a movie starring Edward James Olmos

Ten Things I Hate About You is a movie starring Julia Stiles

The Breakfast Club is a movie starring Molly Ringwald

Spider-Man Homecoming is a movie starring Tom Holland

TV Series:

A Different World is a TV series starring Kadeem Hardison

Beverly Hills, 90210 is a TV series starring Jason Priestley

Boy Meets World is a TV series starring Ben Savage

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

Dawson’s Creek is a TV series starring James Van der Beek

Gilmore Girls is a TV series starring Alexis Bledel

Glee is a TV series starring Lea Michele

One Tree Hill is a TV series starring Chad Michael Murray

Pretty Little Liars is a TV series starring Lucy Hale

Riverdale is a TV series starring K.J. Apa

Saved by the Bell is a TV series starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The O.C. is a TV series starring Ben McKenzie

Veronica Mars is a TV series starring Kristen Bell

Welcome Back Mr. Kotter is a TV series starring Gabriel Kaplan

Wonder Years is a TV series starring Fred Savage

Building a Team

July 2019 in This Awful Awesome Life