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Always Victoria
Glimpsing at the title of this blog and waiting for it to load, I thought maybe I'd be coming across a personal blog, written by a female, in letter form about their life. It's not far from what you actually get from Victoria's blog. She doesn't have an about me page, but going through her archives you find that she has a list of 200 things, she talks about herself and the way she's got her categories set up makes it easy to click on the "about me" category she has listed to get some more info.
I believe that this blog holds a bit of everything. Inspiration, light hearted banter, poems & quotes. For the lack of specific information about the author herself, she makes up for it with the content in her blog. Some things she writes are personal, other's are very general, but still make you think & reflect.
Always Victoria is definitely a blog that pulls you in and warms your heart. The design of the blog isn't too shabby either! Apart from the pin striped background, I really enjoyed the various skins. They gave character and added to the whole experience that is Always Victoria.
Briefly, all her links worked, I loved the fact that she had archives listed as well as categories, she's a woman after my own heart. It makes viewing easier and finding particulars even easier.
Overall, I gave Always Victoria a 4.25 only because I couldn't find anything that was unique to the author on there. The blog is very well written and enjoyable to read, some of the entry's I did skim because they didn't appeal to me, but kudos to the author for making it a blog that has so far kept my interest levels above bored!
This site was reviewed on 2005-03-05 by purpledaisy.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
purpledaisy felt that Always Victoria deserved a rating of 4.25.
I thought the title referred to the city Victoria. My guess was the author lived there. But no. Perhaps then it was about the queen. Ok, not just about Queen Victoria but about monarchy? The answer is once more no. Maybe, just maybe, it would be an ordinary journal written by someone extraordinary. Guess what? No again.
The coolest thing about the blog is that you can pick the design. There are 9 design options -- or rather skins, as the author calls them. They're all very feminine, up to please someone with a girlie taste (unfortunately it so happens not to be my case). They all work just fine, concerning font size and organization. The posts are organized in 10 categories, although the great majority goes under the title "General", which doesn't say much, does it?.
There are many huge posts, a lot of them consisting of lists. I became a great fan of lists after I've "read-the-book-and-seen-the-movie" "High Fidelity". In both the movie and the book, the characters are obsessed in making lists of top 5 anything. But you just have to read this blog to understand what taking an obsession too far means. I've found a list with over a hundred items. By the way, there are HUGE posts. I mean it. Capital letters so you can understand perfectly what I mean.
After reading, or rather skimming, the blog, I was perfectly clear that Always Victoria could be turned into a book. I'd suggest "All the self-help, supposedly inspiring texts you've never read because they happen to crash into your e-mail box in Power Point files". And you are not into Power Point files with that kind of message, especially if they have animation and mid files. Most of the posts are about friendship and spiritual issues but all presented in a quite, hm, how do I put it into words?, cheesy way. Maybe I'm being hard on the author, who by the way signs as "Sweet N Sassy", but I'm supposed to be honest here. Or at least the editor told me so.
This is so not my kind of reading. The author does comment on some of the texts she (supposing this is a she, considering you can't find any further information) pastes into her blog, I'll give you that. I guess I'd have to say it's not all about cheesy messages after all. It's about cheesy, supposedly inspiring messages, anotated by the author. My guess is it's going to turned into a book and will be in the list of best sellers sometime.
This site was reviewed on 2005-03-05 by Not_Enid.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Not_Enid felt that Always Victoria deserved a rating of 3.
2 reviewers gave Always Victoria an average rating of 3.6250
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