Carmen’s Reviews > Dear Life > Status Update

Roly Grain, his name was, and he does not have any further part in what I'm writing now, because this is not a story, only life. - Yes, that's blatantly obvious, Munro, thank you. These stories are so flippin' boring that they could only be "life."

As the shops and their signs were an insult, and the noise of the cars with their stops and starts. Everywhere the proclaiming, this is life. As if we needed it, more of life.

When they were walking they might brush hands, and he made himself get used to that. then when she changed the accidental to the deliberate, he found that he could get used to that also, overcoming a slight dismay.
He grew calmer, and was even prepared for kissing.
- Kissing! Prepare yourself! ¡Prepárate! :) Yay, kissing...

My great-aunt lived in abject poverty just like the woman in this story.

Some creepy fortune hunter was bound to snatch her up... She seemed both bold and childish. At first, a man might be intrigued by her, but then her forwardness, her self-satisfaction, if that's what it was, would become tiresome. Of course, there was money, and to some men that never became tiresome. - Fuck you, Howard.

This book is so boring. I guess I'll finish it tomorrow. Boring, boring, boring.

That was a story basically about nothing.

I am very disappointed with this book so far.

He did not want me to say anything. he took me to bed. Had this been in the cards all along, or was it almost as much of a surprise to him as it was to me? My state of virginity at least did not appear to be a surprise- he provided a towel as well as a condom... - Another asshole move. You're letting him fuck you!?!!? What are you THINKING?! Do you have no self-respect!?!? Grow a spine!

He had been brutal. It shocked me, that he had been so brutal. To one so much in need. But he had done it for me, in a way. So that his time with me should not be taken away. This thought flattered me and I was ashamed that it flattered me. - Fuck you too, lady. You have terrible taste in men.