Precocious puberty, meet ghastly ghostwriter.
A couple of things:
1. I don't know how many people have read the second book of the March series yet ("Scattered Leaves", featuring Jordan, the little girl going through "precocious puberty"), but I'm a few chapters in thanks to some handy-dandy personal time spent on the crapper, and I've got to say, Andrews' ghost writer is getting harder and harder to stomach. I think these things are supposed to be set in modern times; why, then, do we have African-American characters named "Mae Betty", who talks like the Black characters from "To Kill A Mockingbird"? THIS IS NOT 1900. I know, it's like REALLY hard to believe, but not all Black people utter sentences like "why you stop?" and are indentured servants. Jesus fuck.
2. I don't have much hope in it considering how much the adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic" blew, but there's an ad in the back of SL for a movie adaptation of the book "Rain". It says nothing about going to theatres; I'll probably Netflix it if it's just a DVD release, just because I'm curious, but my standards are pretty low. I basically pick up the latest V.C. novels out of habit and a certain appreciation for being able to predict which family member will sleep with whom next than because they're all that original or groundbreaking anymore. Sad, but true.
1. I don't know how many people have read the second book of the March series yet ("Scattered Leaves", featuring Jordan, the little girl going through "precocious puberty"), but I'm a few chapters in thanks to some handy-dandy personal time spent on the crapper, and I've got to say, Andrews' ghost writer is getting harder and harder to stomach. I think these things are supposed to be set in modern times; why, then, do we have African-American characters named "Mae Betty", who talks like the Black characters from "To Kill A Mockingbird"? THIS IS NOT 1900. I know, it's like REALLY hard to believe, but not all Black people utter sentences like "why you stop?" and are indentured servants. Jesus fuck.
2. I don't have much hope in it considering how much the adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic" blew, but there's an ad in the back of SL for a movie adaptation of the book "Rain". It says nothing about going to theatres; I'll probably Netflix it if it's just a DVD release, just because I'm curious, but my standards are pretty low. I basically pick up the latest V.C. novels out of habit and a certain appreciation for being able to predict which family member will sleep with whom next than because they're all that original or groundbreaking anymore. Sad, but true.