"She was a good poet herself, but I didn‘t give her credit for it at the time because I didn‘t think that bland, correct-looking people could be poets. That‘s my fault, getting caught up in the costumes. No blaming it on the Harvard boys."
-"No Blaming the Harvard Boys"
The protagonist of "No Blaming the Harvard Boys," who's trying to get laid at the party she's at, reminds me painfully of myself trying to get laid at parties in college. It burns. ?
"I watched the Colonel walk away, the ass of his seersucker pants sagging. His suit did not fit him as well as he thought it did." ⚰
-"No Blaming the Harvard Boys"
"He‘d tried to dress like the future he would be delivered into, the life of a professor who looked like an actor playing a professor, tried to look like Joyce or Lawrence but instead looked like a poor man‘s Faulkner or a young, dark-haired Colonel Sanders." ??
-"No Blaming the Harvard Boys"
"Even before the dead girl in the water tower, Dean has been haunted."
-"Now, In the Not Quite Dark"
Hell of an opening line.
The cover and title caught my eye at the bookstore yesterday, but I decided not to buy it impulsively. Now that I've seen a bunch of wonderful reviews here and on Goodreads, I may have to go back and get it!
"We are all sitting around the fireplace talking about how not to get raped." - "She Deserves Everything She Gets" - Dana Johnson.
What kind of woman breaks a wine bottle on a mantle? Who wrecks her own house like that, exploding glass all over the place, glass landing into crevices, under spaces nobody will likely ever see again? Me, in not that kind of woman. At the end of the day, I wasn't raised that way. But I try to be that kind of woman. Still, I'm stuck on half measures."
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