"my cousin rahcel" readers

[FluffyMummy123]

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OMG! Valley of the Dolls - that takes me baaaaaaaaaaaack

I loved it, oh and Peyton Place!

ditto re: losing will to live re: Bad Blood

started Little Friend when pg with dd2, not a good idea, left it after only few pages

may try again (did with To Be Loved, by Siri Hustvedt and it WAS worth it, that was a great book)

Grumpy - really? Oh dear. Is dark, I suppose.

Bundle too? What's the matter with you all? Am shocked.

sorry hundred

Is okay. Is allowed

I can thoroughly recommend Betty Smith's 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' its just wonderful.

I read when I was about 19.

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That's funny, i thought she was innocent. Would you have sent her daaaaarn? (if she hadn't have died tragically) -oops - hope didnt' spoil that for anyone then.

DDM is great at wicked wayward women who may do bad things, but as a reaction to opressive male dominated society - and you can't help feeling that she was kind of on their side. Is there a biography of ddm? Bet that'd be interesting.

I tried to get into it, really I did. My sister loved it but I just found it the literary equivalent of sitting in a dreary room with the curtains closed.

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Boco - great - won't bother with it now!

Oh no grumpy, she has all the lights on so she can read ALL NIGHT LONG and never sleep and be weird. Not dreary at all, just a bit scratchy and awkward.

Is the Mary Wesley book the one by Nicholas Shakespeare? (sotto voce: they had an affair you know. When she was bout 109)

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Read it anyway - there are many twists and turns.

Good lesbian writer du Maurier, bet she wore thick tweed trousers and took no prisoners. No messing about. Similarly, I rather like Patrica Highsmith.

Thought she was bi-curious. Didn't she have an affair with gertrude lawrence? or did i make that up.

du maurier or highsmith? Yes. du maurier much nicer person I think than Highsmith, who is frankly scary, but in a good misanthropic kind of way.

du maurier sounded a bit scary too - cold and distant to her family. Simmering male energy.

LOVE IT.

I like angry female writers, they're spikey and fun. Like Carol Shield's book Unless - wow that was cross.

Love Angela Carter too. First thing i read of hers was the Bloody Chamber when i was about 13 and it amazed me. Loved the hero on horseback being the mother instead of a lover.

Yes I loved Angela Carter. Essential adolescent girl reading, I think. Then you should read Bad Blood too, if you haven't already.

Gosh - must have a bit of a softspot for that simmering male energy too. Buttons tweeds, shuffles cards - poker?