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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.

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Anne Tyler - Just finished reading . . .

'Digging to America' by Anne Tyler (audio-book)

8 out of 10


This is a short book. I bought it secondhand at an Oxfam shop, delighted to find some audio-books. It is set in Baltimore, and is about two families, one American, and one Iranian, that both adopt Korean babies.
It tells of their parallel contrasting stories, as they get used to parentdom, and as the families get to know each other. I think this is a book about migration and culture. It is also a lovely honest account of family life. I suppose it is about interactions between cultures and between generations.
I didn't fully understand the title until the day I had finished listening to the book.

I'm currently 'really' reading (in paper / book form) Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. What these two books have in common is that they are both about children being brought up by parents not their own, and about migration.
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