evolving ( )

Here's Adrian again, still feeling victimized by life, still wallowing in self pity, and still hilarious. I don't know how Townsend pulls it off. In real life I absolutely despise people like him, but Adrian brings out different feelings. ( )

I found this at the school library one evening when picking Marlo up. She borrowed it for me. It's light reading. The premise is that it is the diary of Adrian Mole who is ages 18-19 or 20 in this book. He's just your usual, average, every-day British dork of a kid. Nothing amazing. Nothing too intuitive. Just light-reading about everyday life here in the mid to late 80s. Easy reading, interesting. ( )

Adrian Mole, erstwhile novelist and self-styled intellectual, returns for a fourth installment of his diaries.
While the first 3/4 of this book was more or less filled with the same whining naivety of the preceeding volume of this series, I was pleased with the final quarter in which Adrian seems to finally be growing up. Not a moment too soon. I am now vindicated in having purchased the entire series and am looking forward to the next volume. ( )

sue townsends alter ego, adrian as a young adult absolute scream ( )