The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend
Feb. 9th, 2010 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainbowunicorn_readsMy mother is thirty-eight today. I bought her a card which said 'Happy 18th Birthday', but I cunningly changed the number one into a three by the use of Tipp-Ex and dried lentils. So it read 'Happy 38th Birthday!" Unfortunately the verse on the inside didn't math my mother's lifestyle much.
A-tremble on the edge of life,
One day to be a mum and wife.
But now it's discos fun and laughter:
Why should you care what's coming after?
The picture on the front was of a teenage girl going mad to sounds coming out of a record player. On reflection, I think it was a bad choice of card. I wish I wasn't an impulse buyer. Her present was some underarm hair remover. I noticed that the stuff she usually uses had run out.
This book is a 2-in-one, containing "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" and "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". Found in Booksale for around Php75, if I remember correctly.
I haven't quite gotten round to finishing it, and the last time I laid my eyes on it was two years ago, but that's another story. I picked it up again in a desire to give it away, but I'm re-reading it again first.
I skipped the first book, since I've finished reading it already, and couldn't remember much about it, except that it had this lad, Adrian Mole obsessing about his facial hair (or lack thereof) and other body parts which brings him angst and pining after this smart sassy girl named Pandora. They ended up together, but then they break up, then they got back together, then they broke up again, and so on and so forth.
I kept on thinking it was Bridget Jones' diary that I was reading, since they have almost the same style and tone, or that Angus thongs series. There were a few chuckles here and there, some sexism, which turned me off, and impeccable deadpan delivery, which had me flipping the pages every now and then. However, it just wasn't that engaging for me, or maybe I was distracted and wasn't in the right frame of mind whilst reading it.
If you enjoy British humor, or like Bridget Jones or Georgia Nicholson, you might enjoy this.
What I think: 7 unicorns
A-tremble on the edge of life,
One day to be a mum and wife.
But now it's discos fun and laughter:
Why should you care what's coming after?
The picture on the front was of a teenage girl going mad to sounds coming out of a record player. On reflection, I think it was a bad choice of card. I wish I wasn't an impulse buyer. Her present was some underarm hair remover. I noticed that the stuff she usually uses had run out.
This book is a 2-in-one, containing "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" and "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". Found in Booksale for around Php75, if I remember correctly.
I haven't quite gotten round to finishing it, and the last time I laid my eyes on it was two years ago, but that's another story. I picked it up again in a desire to give it away, but I'm re-reading it again first.
I skipped the first book, since I've finished reading it already, and couldn't remember much about it, except that it had this lad, Adrian Mole obsessing about his facial hair (or lack thereof) and other body parts which brings him angst and pining after this smart sassy girl named Pandora. They ended up together, but then they break up, then they got back together, then they broke up again, and so on and so forth.
I kept on thinking it was Bridget Jones' diary that I was reading, since they have almost the same style and tone, or that Angus thongs series. There were a few chuckles here and there, some sexism, which turned me off, and impeccable deadpan delivery, which had me flipping the pages every now and then. However, it just wasn't that engaging for me, or maybe I was distracted and wasn't in the right frame of mind whilst reading it.
If you enjoy British humor, or like Bridget Jones or Georgia Nicholson, you might enjoy this.
What I think: 7 unicorns