Anne's House of Dreams

Re-reading 2020

Oh... the surprises are not that surprising any longer, but still as emotional. I cried.
I had forgotten half of them. Oddly enough. :-D I have read this several times, and I don't usually forget what I read :-D

Everyone wanting to marry is irritating, though. I have been only recently wondering if these books shouldn't be called romance novels after all.

I don't think Dick and Leslie's marriage was ever consummated... she got pregnant soon enough with her second husband. But maybe Maud entertained the idea of that when you don't want to be married to someone, you won't get pregnant either. A child would have complicated things, though. But it would have made good literature. Maybe she couldn't handle it. Maybe she didn't want to handle it. Maybe we couldn't have ignored that he probably raped her every damned night. (But, that's so ugly. Let's not spoil the effect, and let's assume he was just unpleasant to her, and occasionally hit her, or something. sigh)