Now, back when I was in school, I’d read a a couple of Sue Townsend’s books. The unique thing was that those books are written like diaries or journal entries. While I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the first person perspective in a novel, it has to be done right, which is exactly not the way that at least one author I’ve read does it.
But, Cheeseburger Brown certainly does it right. Not only in his fiction, but also in his own journal entries, which come off like a story and suck you in (how voyeuristic of me), but also, and mainly in his new jourvel (how else would you combine novel and journal? oh, I guess you can call it blognovel, like CBB does), Simon of Space. Now, here is a piece of writing, an unfolding story, a live journal, that I’m hopelessly addicted to.