Pre-numbered label used for registration. I rescued this from a box of books someone left "up for grabs" in the parking lot behind my apartment.

I would never have read this before Bookcrossing. I picked it off my shelf thinking I would get a few pages in and decide not to finish it and could send it along, but I ended up reading the whole thing to see what attitude it portrays. It was written in 1968, and the main character is a 40-year old unmarried woman who finds herself pregnant by a married man and beginning an affair with a different married man. She is portrayed as what I think of as the stereotypical "liberated woman" of that era. She has sex for the sake of fun and has no problem sleeping with married men, except for the occasional longing for more regular hours in the relationship. As she gets further in her pregnancy, she has to make decisions about whether to tell the father, whether to trick another man into thinking he's the father, keeping the baby knowing he or she will hear taunts of "bastard," or whether to try to pass the baby off as the child of a relative killed in an accident. She has wanted children since her 20's and thought she couldn't conceive so she never considers abortion.

It was an interesting glance into the morals and social conventions of that era, assuming it was accurately written. My one big problem with it is that she sleeps with married men with absolutely no qualms about them being married. I'm not sure this is realistic, and it was hard for me to accept her cavalier attitude about it.

I wouldn't have gone out of my way to read this, but at 274 pages it was a quick read and interesting enough to spend a few hours on.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I'll be releasing this next week, not sure where yet.

Left it on a bench outside the Verizon store at Smoke Tree Plaza

I am so happy that books are traveling across the globe. I happened upon this book around 3:00 a.m. in the morning, while at work for the Post Office. It has been a lot of fun.

CAUGHT IN PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA AMERICA