March Reviews

Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susanne (3/5)

So I bought this book last year but it took me a while to finish it. The story centres around three women - Anne, Neely and Jennifer, as they try to make it big in New York. But the price for fame and success is high and when you're at the top, there's nowhere to go but down.

Initially I quite enjoyed the book...it was published in the 1950's so it has this unique feel to the narration and there's an interesting amount of analysis to be done about how limited the women's choices were back then, but ironically the main characters have very similar life stories to real-life celebrities. Though it does have something about it that draws you in, I found that the beginning of the 'decline' was quite tedious...the women go through similar struggles and we meet a bunch of different characters and it's often difficult to keep track of who is who. It picked up again near the ending but because the middle was so tedious it was what prevented me from picking this book up again for months. I can see why it's considered a classic, but all the same it's very "of its time".

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So.

I haven't been updating here much, have I?

To be honest, I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to stay a regular on DA. These days I don't get much traffic and I only check on it to see if the artists I follow have posted new works. Plus I'm just not motivated to write for DA anymore...I'm still doing Reader Inserts but because DA have so many unnecessary restrictions, I feel like my creativity is being stunted, so I'm moving on to other website that don't lose their minds if you write lemon or darker stuff. Plus, all my close friends on DA seem to have gone and without them I don't see much reason for me to stay here, I rarely have comments from them or get tags or anything that made me feel a sense of community like I did two years ago. (The fact I'm not into like half my fandoms I used to like probably doesn't help.)

So yeah. I don't know if I'm going to "officially" leave, but I've been tempted to do some serious cleaning up of my gallery...it's too bad I never did getting around to learning how to use Photoshop, because I'd like to still upload drawings/occasional writing, but most people seem to either pick one or the other. Maybe I'll just leave it as it is, since it doesn't matter much either way.

~Amulet