Kayla Carroll’s Reviews > The House of Mirth > Status Update

I jumped the gun. Lily Bart has some of my favorite character development for this time period.

Scandal!

Wharton’s characters never feel grounded, so I never feel grounded in the story. I know it’s part of her satire but I can’t get attached to any of the characters

It’s always a disappointing but expected experience to read about a gross part of American history when it comes to classics. Today brought plantation music, which was literally a book of slave songs performed during minstrel shows; enjoyed mostly because of the “nostalgia” for slave-owning days of the south

This is literally gilded age upper crust gossip and I am eating it up

Winter of classics (but no like, boring ones) starting early