Like Taylor Swift, Kafka seemed to love writing about his failing relationships. Especially if he thought he was being cheated on.
I decided to take a break from 'David Copperfield' this week because I miss feeling inadequate and un-cool around teens. Lucky for me, Shirley Jackson got me covered.
We review a the second half of a teen book where the protagonist has caught on to all the '90s references, and dominates it.
We review a the first half of a teen book where the protagonist starts to catch on that all the '90s references are a little too heavy-handed.
In this chapter, we learn that even when Steerforth keeps calling David "Daisy", David STILL doesn't think he's a jerk because he's in an abusive relationship.
David can't stop being in love with Steerforth. Nothing will stop this obsession. He goes to Steerforth's house and learns that he's a brat that threw a hammer at a woman's face, and his mom put him in a low-class school, just so he could be the king there and feel important. Even calling David "Daisy" as a crappy nick-name wont change his mind.
We review a romance novel that had promise just off the title alone. But, sadly, the sex wasn't as 'hot' as 'Double Dirty Mountain Men'.
David finishes school and is trying to find a career so he's going back to where the actions- Yarmouth. He makes his rounds to say goodbye to everyone and heads to London and runs into friggin' Steerfourth. Damnit.
We suddenly get the narration point of view of David when he's really, really old for some reason. He thinks back fondly of all the women he was hot for.
Everyone in David's life are still acting like jerks.
We decide to read a choose-your-own-adventure book in real time. Is it a good idea? Does it make for enjoyable listening? The answer is is up to you.
David goes to his new school and meets the headmaster, Dr. Strong and Annie (a much younger woman) that Dr. Strong is married to (eeew).
Right when David is making BFF's with Mr. Dick, he's forced to live with ANOTHER family while he goes to school in Canterbury. This family has a kid with red hair which apparently is unacceptable for David. Also: I'm still trying to find information about the 'batman suit' Charles Dickens had in his 'secret room'.
We're 14 chapters into this book and FINALLY someone is NICE to David. Mrs. Betsy goes off on the Murdstones and it's about damn time.
We wrap up a book about trying to get a baby safely through a flood. There's giants and fairy's for no reason.
David heads to Dover! Of course he has to sell most of his clothes and sleep on haystacks, but that's just normal for travel. He finally finds his Aunt, and we end the chapter not knowing if he will stay there permanently because she's obsessed with donkeys for some reason. The romance corner book this week is 'One Snowy Night' by Patience Griffin https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623342/one-snowy-night-by-patience-griffin/
Never ask a pro-child-labor kid to deliver your trunk when you're running away from the bottle factory.
David is forced into child-labor at Mr. Murdstones liquor factory. He's set up to live in a house with a sweet family who have no money and have to sell everything they have because they're in debt. THEN they all get to live together for free in 'debtors jail'. Why bother owning a house you can't afford if you can just go live for free in this 'debtors jail'?
After the funeral the Murdstone's fire Peggoty then let David go to Yarmouth to get creepy on Emily. Mr Barkis also gets creepy on Peggoty by floating around uninvited and not really speaking. But it works and he marries her. David goes back to the Murdstones and they send him off to work at a counting house in London.
We dive back into the exciting world of angels, dust, and multiple dimensions this week. Except that this time it's just about a kid with a boat who works at a bar.