Dear diary book6/11/2023 This thriller sold millions of copies, and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. I am starting my compilation with the runaway hit, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Here are a few of my favourite fictional diaries, and I have also included a recently published real life diary too. Diaries are everywhere and always have been, from the musings of Samuel Pepys and Virginia Woolf to fictional favourites such as Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole. I devour them, there’s something that feels forbidden and secret and I always feel a little sense of guilt whilst reading them. So, instead of attempting (and failing) to write in a diary, I have taken to reading them instead. They capture moments and memories from the mundane and everyday to the extraordinary and historic. However, retweeting and hashtagging and posting a tweet of a hundred or so characters isn’t quite as satisfying as the act of physically writing.ĭiaries are artefacts of the soul. I suppose blogging and twitter are the modern forms of the diary, and I definitely subscribe to using both of those. I’m sure there’s probably a drawer or box in my house stacked with forgotten notebooks and diaries. Of course this doesn’t materialize and instead, pages are left white and clean as if brand new. New Year’s Day comes, and I vow that I will write in it religiously. In fact, almost every Christmas I have asked for one. Since approximately the age of ten, I have tried to keep a diary.
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