An Actual Report of a Book – Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About By: Mil Millington
Fiction, 373 pages copyright 2002

We read this book for the title alone. And it did have lots of pages devoted to the arguments he had with his girlfriend. First some background information on the main characters. The story takes place in Britain and the main male character is English and his live-in girlfriend of at least 6 years is German and believes that they way that they do everything in Germany is better and England should do things like them. So, they get into a LOT of fights. One, there is the fact of the culture barriers that she has no interest in working on. Two, there is the fact (found from reasontly released data on the subject) that as a live-in in girlfriend/boyfriend couple and not a married one (although, depending on England’s laws they may be common-law married) they will tend to argue more and on more trivial subjects. (Possibly, due to the independence and ease of leaving in that situation or to thinking of the other person more as a roommate with sex.) Anyway, these arguments with his girlfriend are actually the least of his concerns. (Excluding that one time people might have died over a broom.) He works as IT at a “learning center” (library) and has been quickly promoted do to his superiors quickly leaving. It is only after taking these jobs that he learns that they were doing a lot more than he thought they did, and it has nothing to do with computers. (Except for the swingers sex toy on-line store, but that is only a minor issue for him on level with say the Triad in his life.)