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Book Review: The Private Life of the Diary by Sally Bayley
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- Date finished: January 12th, 2020
- Pages: 256
- Format: Paperback
- Form: Novel
- Language read in: English
- Series: Series
- Genre: Contemporary | Magic | Children’s Fiction
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Super informative. A really good survey of the diary in its past and present form, in its private and social life. Bayley really did put a lot of thought, research, and fragments of diarist to support her points and it made me fall in love all over again with this form of writing, having religiously kept a diary myself for over 10 years now. The first half of this book was really engrossing and quick paced but it did drag at the “political/scandal” diary section. That specific part was a bit tedious and info-dumpy. But like I said, Bayley does a good overview through time and space of the diary, from Pepys and beyond to the digital age, our age. Highly recommend this one! Especially to diary lovers and keepers, or even for ones intrigued by the form.
“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”
“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.”
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