Melissa’s Reviews > Libby on Wednesday > Status Update

I'll stop here and save the rest of this story for some time in the future when I'm ready to consider picking it back up again.

Don't expect to get any sympathy out of me for barging into someone's house for a personal tour of the place. Totally using Libby to get the opportunity to be inside and see everything. Disgusting. Having cerebral palsy is irrelevant because it simply takes having some decency to refrain from forcing someone so you could satisfy your curosity.

I'm on the verge of giving up on this book. It's better if this was about her homeschooling days so the main focus would be on her interesting family. I don't want to read about these workshop kids who keep pressuring her to let them come over and now one of them comes uninvited. Her father would know how cruel school was, Libby should stop getting on my nerves by carrying on about everything being peach perfect.

Oh, piss off! I can't stand the kids in her workshop, accusing her of her grandfather writing her story and then trying to invite themselves over. They just want to see inside her home, they deem it to be the haunted house.

Libby comes from a privileged, loving family so I'm sure she can make them understand by telling the truth. I find it troubling what school can do to identities: “she had just known, deep down, that she was simply Libby, and that had always seemed important and perfectly satisfactory. There had never been any reason to doubt it. Lately the changeover to that old Libby seemed to take longer and longer.”

“How could they, when she had been lying to them ever since her first day at Morrison Middle School.” Now she makes sense, her school experience has been horrible with the constant jabs at her stature and intelligence, bullying her for things she never saw as a problem before. What kind of name is Mercedes? She seems unlikable already. I don't agree with Libby, I think they would let her quit if they knew her misery.

I don't catch Libby's drift. Why exactly does she want to return to being home schooled? I mean, her family seems an interesting bunch but her story of this writing group doesn't seem like enough of a concern to stress over. She is very dramatic, made her family assume the worst.