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The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
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I work at a movie theater and have been asked countless times if I was going to see Wuthering Heights upon its release. This might be because my nametag lists my favorite movie as Pride and Prejudice, and many people view the two as similar stories.
I always give vague answers to guest, but to co-workers I am honest in saying I have never read the book and that the movie trailers don't inspire me to see it. In fact I felt fairly certain I'd hate book and movie based off of the trailers alone.
A co-worker challenged me on this, and I sat down to read the book.
I am glad for it. The book, while not fully my cup of tea, was amazing. I am still processing it. It had a lot to day about the cycle of abuse and racism and obsession.
That being said, reading the book has doubled my resolve to not see the movie. Reading the book has made all the more aware that there is more wrong with this adaptation than casting Heathcliff as a white man. The movie has been marketed has a swoony love story perfect for Valentines Day. Any movie even remotely faithful to the source material would never be viewed in such a way.
At least the movie has brought new readers, like me, to read this book.
Anyway, has the title asks, did anyone pick up this book for the first time because of the movie?
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Circe
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“She heard Jack call Miles a name and it sounded like he’d called him a ho. Cora asked Sam if he’s heard it and Sam confirmed. An eight-year-old had called a five-year-old a ho.”
BRUH IM DYING HAHAHAHAHA
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Please spare yourself, it’s poorly written right-wing nut job garbage.
-We start off with Mallory, who isn’t actually written like an actual person but is like if she was born yesterday and told she is: Christian, an recovering addict, a runner, and from South Philly
-She is miraculously hired to nanny for an affluent family which is apparently fine with the parents and her sponsor because she has been clean for 18 months which is just totally nonsensical
-The writing itself is awful: a moth is described as having “the texture of tree bark” but also being slimy, neither of which apply to moths and gives a strong impression of very little editing being done
-The woo-woo neighbor tells her the house is haunted and racially profiles the male love interest
-Said male love interest is Mexican so they have to work in landscaping and never speak any Spanish other than “el jefe”
-Nothing about Mallory even really rings true to being an addict, it’s just used to gaslight her about all the ghostly happenings
-The parents are like what Fox News warns you about: snowflake libs that don’t let God or American Beef into their house and they teach their five year old about oral sex for no reason
-The male love interest is not turned off by Mallory lying about her whole life and being heroin addict?? He just keeps dating her because of the ghost thing they have to get to the bottom of
-There’s a terrible scene where the mom is too tired to get through Paradise Lost so Mallory randomly offers her Harry Potter?? We’ll circle back to that
-Mallory’s mom is literally described as being unable to help her with addiction because she is “old, broke and fat” !!!!!!!!!
-The dad sneaks into Mallory’s cottage, undresses, jacks off with her bras in her bed and she doesn’t seem to care???? Doesn’t tell the wife at any point???? Or the police???? Her sponsor??? What???????
-When Mallory finally puts the pieces together that the parents are fucked up and something is not right instead of getting help, she confesses that she knows everything and she immediately is attacked
-Turns out the kid has been kidnapped (in NY, they’re inexplicably hiding out in NJ) because the real mom gave the kid too much screen time (but then fake mom also gives the kid an iPad later??) and the mother has been murdered to cover it up
-Teddy is really a girl named Flora and the evil left wing affluent parents made her identify as a boy to cover up her identity
-Everything works out for Mallory in the end because she is a Good Christian
-Also exercise is bizarrely fetishized????
-The Libs are killed for their sins and Flora gets to live unvaccinated on a farm upstate
-Mallory tries to write as well as JK Rowling because this whole terrible book as been secretly trying to indoctrinate you against transgender children and JKR is our TERF queen
-This was so bad I want to die
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I wasnt sure if I would like this book because the reviews are so polarized, but I’m actually really enjoying it??? everyone (minus Nelly maybe, but it’s from her perspective so who knows) is so awful, but it almost reads like a soap opera or something and I can’t look away 😭