Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student

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How pretty do you sound? You can’t expect to charm a royal ball or end up with Rex Harrison with sloppy speech habits.” When I finished this that I suddenly realized how Yuuki did teach me few lessons about hardships and surviving while taking care of others hearts, on how to keep on being rationale and doing the right thing and avoiding such unfairness and judgement. It was a great reading journey, getting goosebumps here and there. Reading about Anzai as well as how Yuuki trying his hard to be a better father to Jun and Yuka it was all so heart-warming. The crash incident that grabbed all the time and giving restless nights to Yuuki, bringing such emotional roller coaster both to him and people around him was being told in detailed with nice prose and wordings (thanks to great translation work). I was been transported to North Kanto Times HQ, experiencing the massive work of journalists and reporters in all division, some office politic that giving me so much annoyance to few characters, a story of an avid mountain climbers, good friends and subordinates. It was all wrapping up in this novel so beautifully, very sharp, a bit harsh and bitterness but portraying a great brilliant plot as a whole. Musical Seventeen, adapted by Sally Benson, produced in New York City in 1951, with Kenneth Nelson and Ann Crowley.

There are echoes here of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s 2020 novel My Dark Vanessa, which tells of an affair between a 15-year-old schoolgirl and her 42-year-old English teacher, and in which the girl sees their relationship as a great love affair rather than statutory rape. But had the police been alerted to Miss P’s activities at the time, she would not have been prosecuted. As Gibson explains in his afterword, it wasn’t until 2000 that it became illegal for a teacher to have a sexual relationship with a pupil aged 16 or 17. And this being the 1990s, words such as grooming and coercion weren’t common parlance, and sexual impropriety was often swept under the carpet. So it proves when Miss P’s colleagues, having got wind of the affair, do nothing to stop it; to them, protecting the reputation of the school is more important than protecting the welfare of its pupils. In this unflinching memoir, Joe Gibson recounts the affair he had as a schoolboy with his 35-year-old teacher, whom he calls Miss P. The year is 1991 and 17-year-old Gibson, who has chosen to protect his identity by using a pseudonym, has been awarded a bursary to an elite private school to study for his A-levels. Since the school is 150 miles away, his parents arrange for him to stay with friends who allow him use of their spare room, but otherwise leave him to his own devices. To anyone who's worked in an office (particularly in media) there is a lot you'll recognize here. The push and pull of one team vs another. Layout has a grudge against Editorial, who likewise don't find Layout's work all that important compared with their own. It's like this over and over, with Yuuki butting heads with practically everyone at the paper, as they each care more about their own job or their own agenda than the big story that Yuuki has to care about more than anything else.

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What happens when you return from your summer holiday ten pounds heavier? Let us hope the condition is temporary. Meanwhile, you have to dress to minimize.” Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler

Handler vermittelt ihm seine nächste Aufgabe. Eine verdammt heikle und unangenehme. Vor ihm als No. 17 gab es entsprechend sechzehn andere Auftragskiller an der Spitze. Fünfzehn sind tot, die meisten nicht freiwillig aus dem Leben geschieden. Nur Sixteen lebt noch und ist ein Mysterium. Vor vielen Jahren hat er sich einfach aus dem Staub gemacht, ist spurlos von der Bildfläche verschwunden. Nun erhält Seventeen den Auftrag, ihn aufzuspüren und zu erledigen. Andernfalls könnten andere denken, dass die Zeit für No. Eighteen gekommen sei. Doch Seventeen weiß, dass Sixteen eine verdammt schwierige Aufgabe sein wird. But that was not the story Gibson has chosen to tell. What he tells instead is a cautionary tale, one that stresses that fantasy should really remain a fantasy unless you’re prepared to deal with the consequences. There are always consequences.

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The way you stand and walk shows who you think you are. People who droop and just sort of drift around look like nonentities.” On the day that Yuuki was scheduled to meet his best friend, Anzai, and go on a short climbing holiday, a plane crashes into the mountains, killing over 500 people. As the senior reporter for a local provincial paper, Yuuki stays in the office and is put in charge of the paper's coverage of the crash. Anzai also doesn't make it to the meeting point. He collapses on a city street and is taken to the hospital where he lays in a coma. Sixteen killers have done this job before me. Officially, I don't exist, but every government uses me. I'm the most feared hitman in the world. Yuuki felt faint all of a sudden. The announcement of the mall's opening had been left out of the paper on the very day it opened. He bowed his head deeply. Seventeen, then, is the straightforward account of what happened over the next two years, when Gibson (not his real name) was still very much a child. He’s writing under a pseudonym for various reasons – shame, protecting both the innocent and the guilty – and the narrative unfolds in the present tense, thus leaving it absent of the benefits of hindsight.

Here are all the small decisions that make a huge impact on coverage and circulation; the big editorial decisions that make or break the reputation of those in charge; the tensions between advertising, circulation and editorial and in the midst of this, one man, Yuuki, struggling to make sense of it all. For those who love newspapers, this is a must read. For an insight into the world of journalism and macho culture, it is exceptional. For those who just love to read a deeply personal story of loss and self-realisation, it is a unique and joyous read. In a surreal case of life imitating art, the book about a woman’s experiences of everyday sexism caused controversy, with many of Irene’s male fans cutting up and burning posters and photocards of the idol in disgust at her “feminist leanings.” The book, which became the first million-selling Korean novel since Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom in 2009, follows an average young woman in Korea who struggles with sexist experiences and the expectation and reality of quitting her job to become a stay-at-home wife and mother. She later struggles with mental illness, and we see her “psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.” The plot is just crazy enough to make you wonder how real some of these roles and events are. Are all the characters and individual events believable? Not really. Is the overall plot just crazy enough to make you question how real it is? You bet it is!Books The best new books to read in August, from a new Ann Patchett novel to Mark Watson's memoir Read More If a girl slumps her shoulders, it’s a safe bet she hopes nobody will notice anything about her. Probably nobody will.”