Journal Entry 1 by Mikavr from Asheville, North Carolina USA on Monday, May 25, 2009

Amazon Review:
For Juliet, the "life", or the world of prostitution, started off as a game. But then the "game" took over. First she became addicted to the fast, constant, easy money, then to turning tricks into "sugar daddies".
As Juliet begins to heal from her life as prostituted teen, she meets other sex industry survivors. Their similarities change her perspective on the sex industry for good. For most sexe industry survivors, prostitution is a re-enactment of childhood sexual exploitation.

Like Juliet, these women mistankenly believed that prostitution would help them regain the power that had been stolen from them. Ultimately, this decision often proved to be soul-destroying, self-destructive, and for far too many, lethal.


 

Journal Entry 2 by Mikavr at Asheville, North Carolina USA on Thursday, May 28, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (5/28/2009 UTC) at Asheville, North Carolina USA

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This is going off on a short ring.
We can add readers if they express interest while the ring is going. The order is:
hereticcoy
sarkiegirl
And in the UK Fluffy-Owl if anyone can ship to her/him.
And in Greece okyrhoe if anyone can ship to her/him.
Bon voyage book! 

Journal Entry 3 by HSA-209781 on Monday, June 01, 2009

Just arrived :) I'll start it tonight. 

Journal Entry 4 by HSA-209781 on Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Hi. I have to say I was really not a fan of this book. I feel it was poorly written. I was also upset that it was a work of fiction. I thought it was misleading. 

Journal Entry 5 by HSA-209781 at to the next participant, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (6/10/2009 UTC) at to the next participant, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases

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The book is on its way to Sarkiegirl. 

Journal Entry 6 by sarkiegirl from La Quinta, California USA on Monday, June 22, 2009

This came in the mail today! I have two ahead of it, but I will do my best! thanks! 

Journal Entry 7 by sarkiegirl from La Quinta, California USA on Monday, July 06, 2009

I feel bad for saying this, but I thought that it wasn't that interesting to read. I kept with it and followed through to the end, and it also bothered me that it was "fusion fiction" which, I'm assuming is part non fiction, and part fiction. If you are going to call something "Memoirs," you should at least put underneath: a novel... or something that will give you the clue that it's not true.
I also felt that it jumped around a bit too much. You never got to find out what happened with her soon to be husband.
Some of the prostitute's stories were interesting, and it was intriguing to view the sex industry as something you have an "addition to," but the author is not a good writer. Maybe she is taking her technical job way too far. There is no feeling in it.
Thank you for sharing Mikavr! I will be sending it on to Fluffy Owl tomorrow! 

Journal Entry 8 by sarkiegirl at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Monday, July 06, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (7/7/2009 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA

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sending to Fluffy-Owl today! 

Journal Entry 9 by Fluffy-Owl from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Received today, thank you. I'll post it on to Greece when I've finished. I didn't realise it was a hard back book!! 

Journal Entry 10 by Fluffy-Owl from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Sunday, July 19, 2009

Oh my goodness. If I could, I would claim back the minutes of my life I have wasted in reading only a few pages of this book!

I agree with the above comments that FusionFiction(TM) is odd and misleading. The book is part memoirs, part fiction, so the reader never really knows how to approach the story. The writing is awful (kind of like 'I did this. Then I did that. Then this happened') and is possibly one of the worst things I have ever read in terms of style.

Posting it off to Greece later this week, glad to see the back of it! 

Journal Entry 11 by Fluffy-Owl at Durham, County Durham United Kingdom on Sunday, July 19, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (7/20/2009 UTC) at Durham, County Durham United Kingdom

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Posting off to Greece, hope it travels well and arrives safely. 

Journal Entry 12 by okyrhoe from Athens, Attica Greece on Friday, July 24, 2009

Arrived in Athens. Thanks Fluffy-Owl for posting the book to me, and Mikavr for including me in the bookring! 

Journal Entry 13 by okyrhoe from Athens, Attica Greece on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

As some of the previous readers have noted, this is indeed a peculiar narrative. By the time I got through the first 10 pages I could tell something doesn't read right.
Either the narrator is a split personality, or the passages are written by more than one person and spliced together, or the author is copypasting pages from her teenage diary into her contempary memoir, or... I don't know why, but it's all a jumble, some passages are naive and badly written with no clear vision, some appear to better composed/edited with a sense of purpose to the narration...
I also resent the fact that so early on in the text she states her summarizing observations/generalizations, rather than let us follow her life's journel step by step until we arrive at the conclusions she does.
I'm going to set this aside for a while so I can read a couple of other BC rings I have with me now, and then I'll give it a second chance.