the name January Andrews conjures the image of Julie Andrews as the lead almost without any conscious thought on my part - is this intended or am i homosexual?
a few thoughts I had... I am only on chapter 8 btw
- she has a "pizza print" sweatshirt (?)
- references to the pirates of the caribbean movies make sense when it's clare talking about captain salazar but not so much here - neither of these characters act like they've seen a movie before
- is this set in 2014?
i'm broadly curious/sympathetic to the premise of running into someone from college with whom you've had an antagonistic relationship to as this DID happen to me at my college five year and left me wondering "should i have sex with my enemy?" (i didn't - but i did wonder!) for all that these two did share some memories they also seem to not have a clue towards a context in which they exist. big state school, sure, maybe they didn't know each other as intimately as ppl at, say, "hope college" would, but there is a startling lack of mutual reference building that is not semi dated pop culture stuff and not, like, places they would both know in the state of michigan
all of which is to say this is the least "formerly queens-based" character of all time... january andrews is regretfully and painfully chicago in a number of ways
-drink some coffee put on some gangsta rap & handle it
-i think i've recorded every mention of pirates. excited to know final total
-i don't know when it's set or how old they are--more on that in future weeks i think
having sex with your enemy is awesome! but, as EH explicitly states in the "behind the book" section, beach read is less about romance than it is about "writer's block." and i have lots of questions about their college experience. she says all four years they took "turns winning [their] school's writing prizes and contests." how many of those things did they have?? how well-funded is "creative writing" in her mind...
and yes exactly--january andrews lived in chicago for 2 years after graduating from depaul and then moved to park ridge
we know that january is 29 because she says that when she was 28 her life was perfect (this is true of me as well)... she also says that gus is a few years older but they were the same year (kinda confusing) so i guess he is, idk, 32? he is the least 32 year old man of all time
What's most startling to me about the book is the way it feels like a first draft, especially with regard to Henry's use of "noun" in place of actual context or description. She repeats the same nouns over and over!
i like how the nouns signify both a lack of vocabulary and a lack of cultural reference points. when harry met sally just keeps coming up with no connection to the last time she mentioned it, like she forgot that she already used that set of nouns.
the name January Andrews conjures the image of Julie Andrews as the lead almost without any conscious thought on my part - is this intended or am i homosexual?
the latter i fear
this
a few thoughts I had... I am only on chapter 8 btw
- she has a "pizza print" sweatshirt (?)
- references to the pirates of the caribbean movies make sense when it's clare talking about captain salazar but not so much here - neither of these characters act like they've seen a movie before
- is this set in 2014?
i'm broadly curious/sympathetic to the premise of running into someone from college with whom you've had an antagonistic relationship to as this DID happen to me at my college five year and left me wondering "should i have sex with my enemy?" (i didn't - but i did wonder!) for all that these two did share some memories they also seem to not have a clue towards a context in which they exist. big state school, sure, maybe they didn't know each other as intimately as ppl at, say, "hope college" would, but there is a startling lack of mutual reference building that is not semi dated pop culture stuff and not, like, places they would both know in the state of michigan
all of which is to say this is the least "formerly queens-based" character of all time... january andrews is regretfully and painfully chicago in a number of ways
-drink some coffee put on some gangsta rap & handle it
-i think i've recorded every mention of pirates. excited to know final total
-i don't know when it's set or how old they are--more on that in future weeks i think
having sex with your enemy is awesome! but, as EH explicitly states in the "behind the book" section, beach read is less about romance than it is about "writer's block." and i have lots of questions about their college experience. she says all four years they took "turns winning [their] school's writing prizes and contests." how many of those things did they have?? how well-funded is "creative writing" in her mind...
and yes exactly--january andrews lived in chicago for 2 years after graduating from depaul and then moved to park ridge
we know that january is 29 because she says that when she was 28 her life was perfect (this is true of me as well)... she also says that gus is a few years older but they were the same year (kinda confusing) so i guess he is, idk, 32? he is the least 32 year old man of all time
like he would be in a rap music discord and sports betting
The book’s lack of understanding of place and time despite referencing the past and present (?) heavily reminds me of Past Lives.
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What's most startling to me about the book is the way it feels like a first draft, especially with regard to Henry's use of "noun" in place of actual context or description. She repeats the same nouns over and over!
i like how the nouns signify both a lack of vocabulary and a lack of cultural reference points. when harry met sally just keeps coming up with no connection to the last time she mentioned it, like she forgot that she already used that set of nouns.