After reading 84 Charing Cross Road, I didn't exactly want more in the same style: I wanted to know more about the characters. So, I bought all the books by Helene Hanff published after it. It fits that after publishing a collection of letters, instead of a more conventional memoir or travelogue she writes a book in diary format; nevertheless, the style is too hurried, not detailed enough, and not funny enough. The book is occasionally good, but I wish she had used her diary as a source for a more organised and better written work.