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.

Saturday, 2 June 2012

William Boyd - just finished reading

Restless by William Boyd 7 /10 I've just had the pleasure of reading my first William Boyd book. It's great when you open up a new author for discovery. It was a spy thriller! Not what I would normally choose, but not a normal spy thriller, I suspect. Makes you think about subterfuge, bluffs and double bluffs. A woman discovers that her mother was a second world war spy and is not the person she has led everyone to believe that she is. The best bit is coming to understand why the book is called 'restless'. Looking forward to more Boyds.
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