Hello, welcome to my blog

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.

Friday, 12 August 2011

Katie flynn - Just finished reading . . .

A Kiss and a Promise by Katie Flynn (audio book in the car)

5/10


Poverty and an impoverished childhood in Liverpool in the old days (can't recall what year). Then young Ginny is reunited with her long lost Irish father, with the help of stern but really kindly schoolteacher, Miss Mabel Derbyshire. They all live happily ever after on farm in Kerry, with the sun shining and the cows moo-ing and the hens laying eggs. But this can only happen after Ginny is kidnapped by some bad travelling tinkers and then escapes.

Just the kind of book I like to listen to in the car! (but it was never going to earn high marks)
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