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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, 6 December 2010

Just abandoned . . .

Venus Envy by Louise Bagshaw

0 out of 10

I got this out of the library (an audio-book) because I am making myself work through the alphabet (so next time I will have to get an author beginning with C)- I like to live dangerously.
As I have explained I aim to get audio-books that are not too challenging to read in heavy traffic (and snow blizzards, fog and ice, at the moment). Well - we could never call this a challenging book. Nor is it entertaining. Nor amusing. I don't know what page I've abandoned it on, because it is audio, but I only got to track 12, Disc 1, because I was stuck in a traffic jam.
A bit like Brigitte Jones, but not amusing at all.
I don't want to draw any parallels with anything else I have read. Oh - I suppose, like Jane Austen's Lady Susan (the letter A), it is about women trying to catch men.
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2 comments:

  1. Carol Stott7 December 2010 at 01:57

    So, do you have to read another 'B' now, or can you go on to C. You can always follow Jane Austen by a Bronte (if you want even more about women chasing men'. If 'C' a good old Agatha Christie story always entertains. For a 'C' book though, (rather than audio) I would definitley recommend The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke.

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  2. Jackie T7 December 2010 at 14:20

    Hah, Carol. The big problem is that the audio-book range in my local library is abysmal. There will definitely be no Brontes. I will have exhausted the B possibilities. I will move onto C. Thanks for the recommendation, but I can't give non-audio attention to it yet, because I have a big pile of other (paper) books which are queuing up to be read using my other system, in which I approach the authors boy-girl, boy-girl, rather than alphabetically. I like to run my life by systems. At times I have worried that this is a disorder, but I always allow for chaos in my systems (indeed I welcome it). Now I am starting to sound deranged, so I will shut up.

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