Winter Additions.

Kicking off the New Year with this mixed parcel of reads (‘highbrow’, ‘low-brow’ & ‘eyebrow’, wrote my friend), starting with the most racy & light-hearted of the three; an easy flick-through. 

January —

California Dreamers | Norman Bogner

Being as old than myself, some of Bogner’s  attitudes here are certainly contemporaneous (rape games? Mm. Gross.) 

But on the whole, I found I could easily root the most for protagonist Claire, “the jilted small-town beauty who followed [Bobby] West”. 

Her determination to pick herself up, dust herself off & stand her ground in matters of business, romance & love. 

I’m still not entirely convinced of the logical leap from seeing someone sporting camouflage trousers to setting up an entire equivalent Army-&-Navy Store but hey ho, plot must. 

I did appreciate the turn of phrase here,

These were the faces she encountered each day on Rodeo Drive, tough and finicky in stores, but at night their real faces crawled out of the sunlight…” [203-204]

 Bogner, Norman. California Dreamers. 

Sphere Books: London, 1982.