![]() ![]() Which makes him all kinds of shallow and that doesn't go away for much, much too long. Nichols tries to make the case that he mistakes lust (mostly obsessive attraction) for love. Offsetting this is that Simon is an utter moron, emotionally speaking. Nichols does an outstanding job making that "frumpiness" real and present throughout the book and not something that a makeover or positive thinking overcomes. So it was charming to see Simon find her engaging and interesting because she enters into his enthusiasms and they have much in common. Kindness and honesty together means that she's mostly quiet in social gatherings and that means she's used to being overlooked. I really liked her conversations with Simon because it becomes clear that she's kind and intelligent and not so much shy as she is unwilling to dissemble. She doesn't put herself forward much, and that doesn't help. Mina, for example, pulled me right in as an aging (she's thirty when the story picks up) spinster who is, as she terms it, "frumpy". I had a hard time with this story, though parts of it were engaging enough. ![]()
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