
Caitlin Moran
How to Build A Girl
It’s the coming of age of Johanna Morrigan, a fourteen year old aspiring music journalist. She adopts the persona of Dolly Wilde, both as a nom de plume for her writing, and to be the person that she wants to be. Her family are existing on benefits, as her father dreams of becoming a professional musician.
Johanna’s a unconventional woman, driven to succeed. She takes advantage of the fact that the library offers a chance to borrow cds for 20p, and totally submerges herself in a wide range of music. Once she takes the name Dolly Wilde, she also adopts a distinctive sense of style with a top hat, and embarks on a path of sexual and intellectual enlightenment.
The character is very likable, her self confidence when picking up men for her sexual experiments, is something far beyond her years. Moran names a few of Johanna’s lovers, establishing a genuine connection between her and her co worker in particular, but a few of them are just referred to by what Dolly allows them to do to her.
Moran is a very gifted comic writer, creating a group of characters and situations which made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion.
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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This is a wonderful book review. Do you do book reviews on any book or does it have to be a best seller book?
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First thank you Deanne for the compliment. I just write about the books that I read really, I don’t only read best sellers, it just has to grab me in some way. Are any books you could recommend that you’ve read recently?
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I recently publish a book on Amazon. It’s my first book ever and I’ve only been writing for about year now. So I’m still unsure of calling myself a writer. Here’s the link http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B578EQ8?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660 I think you should be able to read it for free
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