Beau Manglass > Recent Status Updates

I've barely started this and there is likely (I hope) more going on, but honestly it's an incredible bit to meet the handsome but brooding, clearly unhappily married male love interest and then find out it's just that his wife is fat. And of course, fat=slovenly=unsophisticated in this character portrayal. Other aspects of this story do have appeal but we have to see how she writes her way out of that ridiculousness!

Needs to go back to the library but I will check out again; note to self, I am on part III.

I don't know what it is exactly about Japanese literature and representations of bullying, but they are so fucking nightmarish!

Oh my god, am I really going to finish this a hater? The plotting is coming together a little at the VERY end but I have soooo many gripes that I did not expect to have.

On the one hand, when I sit down to read this book the pages roll on by, and that is a great feeling coming out of a reading slump. On the other hand, I have so many mixed feelings about pacing and characterization and the writing. The writing is really good! Except when I can feel the seams of the plot between every event.