Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, March 13, 2007

BOB:
The days I had previously filled with the duties of chief cook and bottle-washer now lay strangely empty - they stretched out before me like a blank canvas. I kept looking at it, but couldn't think of anything to paint...

Preparing dinner for her husband's colleagues, nervous, and listening to a woman complain about domestic slavery on the radio, Helen Robbins hits the bottle hard. For fifteen years she has lived a life of suburban predictability with Robert, bending to his boorish demands and allowing her once vital, independent spirit to retreat into the safety cage of mundane, dutiful routine. Over dinner that evening she decides to throw off her role of domestic angel and hit him where it hurts: she dares to criticise his driving.

Riled by his wife's comments, an irate Robert sets out the next morning to prove himself and is killed in a freak accident. Helen's life is about to be transformed.

As she rekindles relationships with old friends and close family, Helen rediscovers the excitement of her former world. Tentatively stepping back into the fold, imbued with a new sense of power and adventure, she discovers for the first time the possibility of a relationship on her own terms - as well as certain thrill she never quite believed possible... and the surprises are only just beginning...  

Journal Entry 2 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, March 13, 2007

I thought this was great fun. I loved watching Helen take her life back and with a great bonus at the end. What a slimy pice of shit Robert was! The Ayurvedic treatment sounds fabulous.

This certainly not literature, it's fluff, and I found it very entertaining fluff. 

Journal Entry 3 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bookring instructions:
1. SIGN UP for this bookring by sending me a Private Message. Order of participants will be juggled between geography and date of request. Late additions may be added to the end of the list.
2. When the person before you on the list finishes reading the book, they will send you a Private Message for your postal address. If you are experiencing an RBC (Reading Backlog Crisis) or no longer wish to read it, let them (and me!) know and I will move/remove you down/off the list.
3. WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE BOOK please make a journal entry so everyone knows it has safely arrived.
4. WHEN YOU FINISH THE BOOK, make another journal entry telling us what you thought - did you like it? Did you think it was well-written?
5. CONTINUE THE BOOKRING by sending a Private Message to the person after you on the bookring list and request their postal address. Please check back here for the latest distribution list. If the person doesn't respond within 7-10 days (use your judgement), please PM the next person, and then me, so I can update the bookring list.

Please keep your journal entries up-to-date so we know who the book is currently with, or whether it is still in the postal system. Thank you and happy reading!

Participants:
sarahbear, TAS
Sharky13, TAS

Posted to sarahbear 1/4/7 - no joke! 

Journal Entry 4 by sarahbear from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Thursday, April 05, 2007

Must only be Tasmanians with the right sense of taste to want this bookring..lol. I do have a few ahead of it but I promise to get to it asap. Nudge me if Im too slow please. 

Journal Entry 5 by sarahbear from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Tuesday, May 01, 2007

This book was ok. A bit wishy washy in places but all in all still a worthwhile read.

Posting to sharky13 as soon as I have an address. 

Journal Entry 6 by Sharky13 from Devonport, Tasmania Australia on Thursday, May 03, 2007

Arrived today.

Looks like it good be a good trashy read for bathtime.lol

Seek, read & enjoy. 

Journal Entry 7 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Surely you've had time for that bath by now, Sharky13. You didn't drop it in, did you? 

Journal Entry 8 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Sharky13, Where are you? 

Journal Entry 9 by Sharky13 from Devonport, Tasmania Australia on Saturday, December 29, 2007

I loved reading this. Made for a great trashy bathtime read. I found myself laughing & at times almost being scared to read on for the similarities of being "chief cook & bottle washer".

Thankfully I didn't drop the book in the bath.

I do apologise for the delays in journalling & replying. I am still in the land of the living...thankgoodness.

Seek, read & enjoy.
 

Journal Entry 10 by lostbookisland on Saturday, August 29, 2009