As part of my Aussie Author Month, I have some signed books to give away!
Up for grabs today is Creepy and Maud by Dianne Touchell!
I am in love with the girl next door. Our windows are almost opposite each other's, over the side fence.
I call
her Maud. That's not her real name but that's what I call her. She's
sort of shortish and curvy. Titian hair. No freckles. A dark, smudgy
birthmark on the back of her left calf. A nose piercing her dad knows
about and a bellybutton piercing I assume he doesn't. All right, so I
have spent a bit of time looking in there.
Am I
sounding creepy? Love is sort of creepy. When you fall in love, you
presuppose all sorts of things about the person. You superimpose all
kinds of ideals and fantasies on them. You create all manner of
unrealistic, untenable, unsatisfiable criteria for that person,
automatically guaranteeing their failure and your heartbreak. And what
do we call it? Romance. Now, that's creepy.
What I Said:
"Creepy and Maud is
an off-beat novel with peculiar characters who view the world from a distance. The
story is told in first person, swapping between the two title characters,
although not evenly. The text is often blunt, but lyrically interesting, and matches
the quiry and slightly odd characters who are just trying to make a
connection with someone who understands them."
Click here to read the full review.
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- Entires close 30th April 2013
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