Lydia Schultz > Recent Status Updates

they should make a Clueless-style movie adaptation of this book

slut..

TH you little freak

woooo I am loving this book!!!!!

I'm gonna give this another 50 pages or so... it's tough to make a reader care about characters they already know are doomed from the start, and Russell isn't really cinching it for me. All these people are charming, yeah, but they're not quite believable as people. Their identities seem so linked to their nationalities - which I'm sure has a story purpose, but doesn't do much for making them particularly compelling.

I'm having some trouble getting into this. It's a little more contemporary than I usually go and the style/tone of the prose is giving me some trouble: a little overbearing, overwritten, maybe slightly cold, too. Something a little un-artful. But I don't mind it, and can see myself getting into it more as I read on, so I'll stick with it

I really like the quote from Ursula Le Guin on the back cover: "not at all 'poetic' - quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose."

what a bizarre little book. I love it

this has been ridiculously enjoyable so far. it's like watching the movie but slower and there's more of it.

more out of Dora and less out of Michael, if you please

I'm giving up. It's been a while since I started a book I just straight up didn't like. Maybe I was predisposed to dislike it because of the way it was recommended to me (by some unsympathetic, smug professors who told me I could learn from it). But I want to read a book with characters and dialogue, not one pretentious woman lecturing about cheese and gardening and taking smug pleasure in her own everything.

makes me want to go backpacking through english countryside