In other news, I picked up "The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl" from the library the other day. I don't know what I was hoping for, but that wasn't it. Still, the book was interesting, and I ended up reading it all in one day.
I just remembered: I am supposed to watch (and review) Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which I have not gotten around to yet. Because of that, I got interested in "Secret Life" books. I also have on reserve at the Library:
The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren
The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
The Secret Life of Becky Miller
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
The Secret Life of Brian
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
The Secret Life of Cowboys
The Secret Life of Dagmar Schultz
The Secret Life of Danny Kaye
The Secret Life of Dilly McBean
The Secret Life of Dust
The Secret Life of Food
The Secret Life of Geisha
The Secret Life of Houdini
The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
The Secret Life of Josephine
The Secret Life of Ramses II
The Secret Life of Lobsters
The Secret Life of Math
The Secret Life of Men
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
The Secret Life of Ms. Wiz
The Secret Life of Plants
The Secret Life of Quanta
The Secret Life of Sharks
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
The Secret Life of the Brain
The Secret Life of the dyslexic child
The Secret Life of the lonely doll
The Secret Life of The Veronicas
The Secret Life of Water
The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Lives of Citizens
Secret Lives of common birds
The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Secret Lives of dogs
The Secret Lives of Dolpins
The Secret Lives of fortunate wives
The Secret Lives of girls
The Secret Lives of Men and Women (Postsecret)
The Secret Lives of second wives
The Secret Lives of snakes
The Secret Lives of kudzu debutantes
The Secret Lives of words
Who knew there were so many secret lives going on out there? Will I read them all? Probably not, but at least they are ready for me, should I choose.
Anyway, The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl is by Rosemary Kingswood. It recounts and affair she had with the actor Richard Burton.....when she was 14!
Kingswood somehow kept the secret for 40 years, save her diary, but you really can't blame her for writing a book about it. In 1955 sex with a 14 year old would not be quite as bad as today (especially when it's a famous actor) but still: 'twould have been quite the scandal.
The book was interesting, if not fascinating, but I wanted to share the first couple of sentences. They pop, and are worth reading even if you never give Miss Kingswood another chance:
"There comes a time in a young girls life when she is ripe and ready for love, when there is a richness about her, a glow, a honeyed tumescence that draws men like bees to blossom. Call it what you will, nature, biology, pheremones, or lust, it is the moment, that perfect moment, when her hormones are sizzling, when she melts, when her eyes are dewey with promise, that everything about her is sending out urgent messages. In short, nature works continuously to make her absolutely irresisitible."
How could Sir Richard even stand a chance?
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