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Mostly you will find, here, transcribed entries from the secret diary that I used to keep as a teenager between 1970 and 1975. I try to be honest with my transcriptions, but, just occasionally I do edit, to protect myself or others from embarrassment or some other emotion.
Also, though, I like to do a brief review of the books I have been reading, so these are interspersed throughout. I reserve the right to write blog entries, also, about other random things.
Why do I keep this blog? I don't know. I am an academic and one of my research interests is around how people construct their own identities. The diary transcriptions, and what I write about my books, are very much about revealing something of my identity.

Monday, 1 November 2010

Just finished reading . . .

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

9.5 out of 10

Anita Shreve is a great, and multi-facetted, writer.
In this book she tells a good story, and she explores the extent to which we can ever know someone else. How do you react when you find out that someone close had big secrets?
2 pieces of wisdom that I marked in this book
(1) you have to go through something to get to the other side
(2) 'to be relieved of love ..... was to give up a terrible burden'

Not a book to read on an aeroplane.

What did it have in common with the last book I read, by Michael Connelly? They are both about investigations into why death occurred.
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