{"id":299,"date":"2007-12-13T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:17:00","slug":"thursday-book-club-im-faking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/thursday-book-club-im-faking-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Book Club: I’m Faking It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I’m faking a Book Club<\/a> post, but I’ve never faked it before. Really! I swear, it’s not you, it’s me. Don’t take it personally.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I finally did a post on Christopher Walken<\/a>, but I feel he deserves one more since I think of him so often. I have complained before<\/a> of the gimmicky “secret diary” format of a lot of historical fiction. I always think of Christopher Walken’s scene in Pulp Fiction when I ponder how the “diary” might have survived. It must have been smuggled out of the palace up some jester’s ass, right? I even quoted the Pulp Fiction scene here<\/a> regarding the Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn.<\/p>\n

But now I think you should see the whole scene in all its glory. To make this a Book Club post, just imagine Walken saying, “I had this uncomfortable notebook up my ass two years.”<\/p>\n

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If I ever write my own “secret diary” book, I’m definitely doing a jester-ass-smuggling scene. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I’m faking a Book Club post, but I’ve never faked it before. Really! I swear, it’s not you, it’s me. Don’t take it personally. Anyway, I finally did a post on Christopher Walken, but I feel he deserves one more since I think of him so often. I have complained before of the gimmicky…<\/p>\n

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