Your scattered thoughts are pretty similar to my scattered thoughts. Oh, except that I loved the interruptions and the HUGE sections that are just letters.
I am all aboard this research train, but also not at all interested in Maud/Roland endgame. I'm not convinced the author is, either? Not yet, anyway - there's the conspiratorial thrill of the hunt, but other than that, I don't feel like there's much there there. Unless they get yanked together half against their will by some kind of tidal force due to their proximity to the Ash/LaMotte letters, which might be where this is going.
I feel sympathy for Christabel as someone who maybe used to have one ideal and now has two that are in tension, and has to figure out how/whether she can reorganize her life to reflect that, but I feel A LOT WORSE for Blanche. And Val, who seems to exist primarily to illustrate for our academics the difficulty of living with Blanche. :(
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Date: 2016-06-15 02:17 pm (UTC)Your scattered thoughts are pretty similar to my scattered thoughts. Oh, except that I loved the interruptions and the HUGE sections that are just letters.
I am all aboard this research train, but also not at all interested in Maud/Roland endgame. I'm not convinced the author is, either? Not yet, anyway - there's the conspiratorial thrill of the hunt, but other than that, I don't feel like there's much there there. Unless they get yanked together half against their will by some kind of tidal force due to their proximity to the Ash/LaMotte letters, which might be where this is going.
I feel sympathy for Christabel as someone who maybe used to have one ideal and now has two that are in tension, and has to figure out how/whether she can reorganize her life to reflect that, but I feel A LOT WORSE for Blanche. And Val, who seems to exist primarily to illustrate for our academics the difficulty of living with Blanche. :(
I like Leonora, too. :\ And Beatrice Nest.