Book Review: Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Racy, witty, funny, and sometimes a little raunchy. A delightful and brilliant account of a woman's life trying to fit in her busy and sometimes random work schedule with her normal day to day life... as a call girl.
It's definitely a cure for your common "busom-heaver" lust novel. During moments where you read about the husbands and travelling business men paying for her services, you may be tempted to hate her. But, she has a point, she's just doing her job and at least she won't go beating down his door trying to ruin his marriage.
Memorable Quotes (for some reason or other):
There is a client, I've seen him twice now. Hard face, high cheekbones, water-clear eyes, and eyelashes to envy. A cool person, handsome in a harsh way, gentle. Smart. We talk about books, he's an engineer of some sort and hates his job, and we talk about plays and films. I enthuse about Ben Kingsley in this or that role, about Anthony Sher. He half-smiles. No idea why he's single. Perhaps he just wants to be alone?
You can blame my fixation with the Ninth Doctor for this one standing out. lol
The client was a revisit. He was in law enforcement, and the first time out he'd taken me to a semiformal work event. From the ratio of nubile cuties to paunchy detectives, I may not have been the only paid girl there. Or perhaps the Mat's PR efforts are paying off in unexpected ways. I had been seated next to my date, while one of his colleagues, a Scottish youth, looked down the front of my top in a way that suggested it was meant more surreptitiously than it came off.
I think deep down I can blame a few folks on my f-list for THAT one to cause me to laugh aloud.
I'm a disease-spreading vector. No one is safe, sure, but some of us are more at risk than others, even with all the precautions available these days -- the free clinics, the vaccinations, the public awareness campaigns.
And it's important to me. There's no such thing as paid sick leave for call girls. And God forbid you end up in hospital.
So I want to set your minds at ease as much as I can. I want you to know.
I have had my flu shot.
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing on that last line. Seriously.