Absolutely adore this song at the moment! Its so evocative and yet lulling (is that a word?!) at once. Not that I need to be anymore lulled than I already am (lack of work today is baaaaddddddd). Also, 'The Virgin Suicides' is one of my favourite books and films ever so it's an all-round winner!
A couple of weeks I read Eugendies' most recent book - 'The Marriage Plot' - and I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I enjoyed it as a good read, but it just didn't bowl me away in the way 'Middlesex', especially, did. A lot of people have suggested that the main characters in 'The Marriage Plot' aren't very accessible because of their privileged student life at Brown, etc. - I didn't really find that the problem (Cambridge has inured me to such people!!). It just didn't have a certain 'Je ne said quoi' I guess. That said, Eugendies' insight into certain elements of the 'human psyche' surprised me sometimes, and definitely made me laugh - this is kind of gross but I found the bit when, after she first slept with Leonard, Madeleine worries about getting a UTI hilarious! How do writers think of stuff like that?! Especially men writing about women... I guess you just have to be really, really observant!
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