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I start the year with a throbbing head and shaking limbs, owing to the excessive amounts of alcohol I was forced to drink at my mother’s party last night.

Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend

June 22, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Uh oh! We’re getting into the territory where the vulnerable foibles of youth are turning into the entrenched and ossified frailties of adulthood. Adrian Mole is 23 now and a LOT has happened. I won’t tell you all of it, but among the best of the bunch is that his old friend Barry has written a novel called the “Dork’s Diary” which has found a lot of success, Pandora is working on a PhD (D Phill actually she tells us), Adrian’s parents are held in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adrian mole the wilderness years, Sue Townsend

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:335 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adrian mole the wilderness years, Sue Townsend ·
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My father has sent a telegram to the War Office.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend

The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole by Sue Townsend

April 13, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Growing Pains This second book is just as good as the first, but slightly different. We pick up right where the story left off with Adrian Mole still pining for Pandora, his hip, cool, too hot for him Leftist girlfriend, and living at home with his parents. His mom, it turns out, has become pregnant, and his father’s ex girlfriend, whom Adrian calls “Stick Insect” is also pregnant. Adrian wonders aloud, who would impregnate her. He also notices that when he tells Pandora and her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:199 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole ·
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Thursday January 1st Bank Holiday in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

April 4, 2020 by vel veeter 2 Comments

An absolutely hilarious and wonderful book in the format of a series of diary entries in the year of the life of a 13 year old boy in Thatcherite England. Adrian Mole is deeply vulnerable and a real twerp in equal measures. The novel begins early in the year as he’s awaiting his 14th birthday. Recent television viewing has convinced him that’s an intellectual, he’s deeply in love with a classmate named Pandora, and he’s witnessing the strange phenomenon of his mother helping to nurse […]

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vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:171 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ·
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