The Dysfunctional Family by Paul Bress - Revision history

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 I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
-For more fiction, in diary form, we can recommend [[Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie]].  There's a superb story hiding in [[Double Crossings by Yvette Rocheron]].
+For more fiction, in diary form, we can recommend [[Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie]].  There's a superb story hiding in [[Double Crossings by Yvette Rocheron]] and we loved the humour in [[The Brinkmeyers by Michael Cameron]].
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 Societies are constantly changing and sociology students are presented with theories to help them to comprehend what's happening.  Here we have a different approach: a family has been paid a small amount of money to write diaries which they would keep secret from other members of the family and which would be available for publication.  This book is the result and we follow Phil and Sue Brown and their two sons, Jack and Theo though a traumatic period which lasts for just over two months.  The entries in the diaries are made daily and we read what has happened to each member of the 'dysfunctional family'.
-It's a clever device.  Personalities emerge through their own words and their interactions with others.  Characters develop as a result of their actions and inactions and relationships falter, develop and collapse.  Jack is a bit of a lad but a more thoughtful side of his personality emerges – although not without some angst along the way.  Theo was expected to have a great academic future – in fact Theo himself expected it – but is it ''really'' what he wants?  People wondered how Jack and Theo could be brothers, but I wondered more about how their parents could have produced them.  Phil's weak and Sue's self-centred.
+It's a clever device.  Personalities emerge through their own words and their interactions with others.  Characters develop as a result of their actions and inactions and relationships falter, develop and collapse.  Jack is a bit of a lad but a more thoughtful side of his personality emerges – although not without some angst along the way.  Theo was expected to have a great academic future – in fact, Theo himself expected it – but is it ''really'' what he wants?  People wondered how Jack and Theo could be brothers, but I wondered more about how their parents could have produced them.  Phil's weak and Sue's self-centred.
 The diary format does have its limitations, particularly when every member of the family makes an entry each day.  We all have days when nothing much happens but this never seems to happen in the Brown family and when you look back at the end of the book it's tempting to think that just too much has happened, too many decisions have been made and changed, in rather too short a time.  That's me being very picky though – as I was aware that I was unwilling to put the book down until I found out what happened to each member of the family.
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 I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
-For more fiction in diary form we can recommend [[Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie]].
+For more fiction, in diary form, we can recommend [[Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie]].  There's a superb story hiding in [[Double Crossings by Yvette Rocheron]].
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 Societies are constantly changing and sociology students are presented with theories to help them to comprehend what's happening.  Here we have a different approach: a family has been paid a small amount of money to write diaries which they would keep secret from other members of the family and which would be available for publication.  This book is the result and we follow Phil and Sue Brown and their two sons, Jack and Theo though a traumatic period which lasts for just over two months.  The entries in the diaries are made daily and we read what has happened to each member of the 'dysfunctional family'.

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 Societies are constantly changing and sociology students are presented with theories to help them to comprehend what's happening.  Here we have a different approach: a family has been paid a small amount of money to write diaries which they would keep secret from other members of the family and which would be available for publication.  This book is the result and we follow Phil and Sue Brown and their two sons, Jack and Theo though a traumatic period which lasts for just over two months.  The entries in the diaries are made daily and we read what has happened to each member of the 'dysfunctional family'.

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 For more fiction in diary form we can recommend [[Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie]].
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 |text=One person will win a signed copy of the book.  For your chance to win just answer the following question:
-What is the name of the string that passes through the middle of a candle?
+What diarist famously recorded the Great Fire of London?
 |date=30 June 2011