Sunday. After a long and tiring week. Here I am, in my comfort zone, in my little work space. After doing some homework and given some time to myself, I think I should go back to the book because lately it has been hard to find a little moment to go back to it…what a shame…on me.

Is it me or the narrator is hard to know if it is a woman or a man? After a short scene about a naked woman and her secret lover I thought she was the one narrating. However, I remembered that at first I thought it was a man… I hate this confusion because I do not know who is actually talking to me!

Okay wait page 16 is already telling me the narrator is a boy, well, he is actually talking about a lover he once had. Yay for my good intuition! … I got interrupted and this bothers me so much… just because I have to reread some sentences to catch up with the reading and urghhhh.



“[…] and I thought how easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it” (17)
How deep is this quote? It makes you think about all the hard times someone has gone through and the truth about the difficulty to forget them...but actually easy to destroy the past as the narrator did destroying some letters with a woman he had a relationship with.

Poor narrator… I actually feel bad for him; he is scared of falling in love! Scared of falling into a serious relationship, falling into a woman’s trap that will open a ‘door’ and leave him alone once more. That is a very terrifying thought to be honest.

After some pages I realized there are no clear chapters in this book? This is very disappointing for me because I need books to have chapters and divide scenes and periods within the story. Instead, this makes me feel dizzy going from one story to another, making it difficult to actually follow the book.. oh well, we will try in a few to keep going with it, for now I need some sleep!

Hey again! *trying to keep up with the lecture* Currently fascinated for the love of Narry and Louise for each other♥ Narry actually wants to "settle matters" with Jacqueline (finally!). Even though she made a total mess with Narry's apartment... I feel confused about what is he talking about later on, I feel he is telling us something about relationships and how should we behave and that everything is not really the same for everyone or following the general rules of love. He talks about many things without even a pause between that makes me dizzy and hard to follow the topics... Don't mind that I might be mistaken about what I think... I am also kind of ill...not making an excuse...

I continue reading to, what it seems, that Jacqueline does have a husband but still has affairs with Narry... I mean... for sure 'happiness is always a compromise' (74), if what you mean by happiness is not having enough with being married to the supposed men you are in love and need to have affairs with another one... of course is a compromise that you decided to marry that man.

By the way, that thing about magazines really shocked me in the sense of how much truth is in there, and I am sure society did not even notice that, like me!
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I. AM. TIRED. OF. HIM. TALKING. ABOUT. HIS. OTHER. GIRLFRIENDS. STOP. PLEASE. I have to say that 'I was wearing only my Mickey Mouse one-piece' (75) is the best sentence, I mean, I feel you man. And again he addressed her just to say that Judith also get rid of all his things, just as Jacqueline, but Judith burned them.

It is cute just how the narrator finds his love for Louise as the one with who does not need any lover or to think of his previous girlfriends and happened with Jacqueline, it is cute how he found love in her and with her. Also he found his friend committing adultery just before marrying very bad. "I will be true to you", no matter if they are married or not, nothing will tear them apart♥

He is talking about a kind of 'six-months-rule' within a relationship, like if it is a crutial line, stablishing a limit through which just some of those couples can transcend and go beyond, actually achieving 'relationship goals'. Fascinating as for me (or what I have been said) this line is established when the couple reaches 4 years of relationship, which, of course, is just a myth as the one the narrator establishes.

As it is already late, I will end it here with a quote I really liked: "What you risk is what you value. In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one" (81).