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^ Please! I can't take the suspense!

Jill is an amusing character. I hope she becomes more relevant in later chapters, though. I confused her with Jennifer from earlier chapters, so I don't know if the name ...

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Short, lovely, a wonderful senryu, Kit ^_^

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Odd, odd plot. Odd, odd characters. I couldn't even finish it.

But they're different: they've lived, adapted. Talking is like showing off a dead dog in the Eukanuba competition. Eew :( I don't even know if the metaphor holds. "You know," ...

He had the sudden urge, the compulsion, to reach out and glide his fingers over the tangled auburn of her hair; he felt that if his hand came in full ...

How anyone could be so unaware that their conversations conceivably made those they love want to hit themselves with a frying pan escapes me. Some lines, like the one above, ...

"Oh right," he says, nodding but obviously uninterested in me. That's good. I don't like people being too interested in me , because that means they expect something in return, ...

I've read this! It was lovely. Especially the ending. Eh, I don't know how much I can say without giving things away, except that I'd recommend it! ^_^ -Amelia

I think that Ms. Carlyle is just about the most fun character ever. I want to say that Nick appears to change personalities with every scene, but I suppose in ...

Ah, I see. Something else I noticed: I don't think he got dressed before going to breakfast? That seems a tad odd, even for this family :wink: -Amelia

"Jeffrey!" Mother hisses. She does this every time anyone mentions her and Father are married. It's like some kind of revolting secret she has to keep well-hidden and without mention. ...

Sorry for the confusion; I meant that any phrase with " [insert word here]-proportions" would sound vague to me, but I think it's me, not your poetry, Evangelina. Sorry for ...