Early morning tears October 27, 2006
Posted by Jen in : Bits and Pieces, Journal , trackbackRacked with grief, the tears are sliding slowly but fully down my unwashed cheeks, plopping hopelessly onto the duvet. I am empty. Bereft. It’s finished. Over with. The final page turned.
I know I shouldn’t be quite so upset about finishing my Jilly Cooper novel but, crumbs, her characters are just so jolly marvellous. The cads, the glamour, the feckless (oh, how I love that word!) abundance of it all. And while the majority of tears are produced by my inner soppy date, I’m also pissed off that I can’t write as well as that. Bloody Jilly. I hate love her.
So, what to read next?? As P J O’Rourke said, “Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it”. Oh, what does he know?? It’s a little embarassing, of course, reading Jilly Cooper. But that’s the beauty of Amazon isn’t it? All one’s shameful secrets delivered in a brown cardboard parcel of ambiguity. And best of all, as lovely bf discovered some time ago, the one-click thingummyjig means they never ask you for money. It’s free, I tell you, free!
PS
Dear Jilly
Would you like me to review all your future books? As a result of being rather impoverished at the mo, I am available for £1.47 a week, plus a round of Marmite sarnies and a bit of a hug.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Lots of love, Jen x
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I love - love - the one-click thingummy. Many a happy (if completely unjustifiable) purchase has winged (wung?) its way to the Witchery via the guilt-free cleanliness of that happy function.
Ah. I think you may not have closed your italics tag…
Italics tag… oh, that would be it. Actually, I have been trying to put that right all day. But when YOU said it, I did it without effort. Without even knowing how to do it. Or what you were talking about.
You have infiltrated my mind with technical witchery. Gosh, that IS clever
Mmmm… Amazon+Wine=Fun, Fun, Fun
i recently read ‘the sex life of my aunt’ by..somebody (mavis?) Cheek. i thought you might find it funny…x
I’m just clever that way, see?
recently read ‘the sex life of my aunt’ by..somebody (mavis?) Cheek. i thought you might find it funny…
Oh, sod intellectualism… picked that up for £0.01 on Amazon!!