SUGAR ...

Well I finished "The Fuck-Up" the other evening ... reading it in bed ... and the ending just was a total surprise.  Now I am going to concentrate on "The Crimson Petal And The White" by Michel Faber.  I have to admit that what got me first was the cover.  Looks to be borrowed from Renaissance art.  Then I saw the words National Bestseller on the top ... hmmm ... I looked on the back cover for the synopsis:

Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in Victorian London who yearns for escape to a better life.  From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society.  Beginning with William Rackham, a perfume maganate whose lust for Sugar soon begins to smell like love, she meets a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters as her social rise is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.

After reading that I was won over.  I am halfway through it right now, and hopefully I'll finish it by the time Monday rolls around.  But, anybody want my copy of "The Fuck-Up" ... e-mail me if you do ... I'll send it to the first person to e-mail me requesting as much with their address at elizabeth.x.mendoza@lausd.net.  I'll even pay the postage ...

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