regshoe

Glossaries—better and better :D All that certainly sounds very good, and I'll look forward to trying out the books!

The book is very sweet, but you're absolutely right about the whole Fresh Air Will Cure You thing being a bit too much, and also overly simplistic--it's a bit like telling sick and/or disabled people that their pain is all in their heads, or suggesting to depressed people that they do yoga and think positive thoughts! But the nature stuff is definitely lovely!

Exactly! It was frustrating, really, because Fresh Air and the beautiful Yorkshire moors and nature etc. really can be good for mood and mental health, I find, and it's lovely to have that portrayed in a book—but FHB can't stop there, she has to act like it's this miraculous cure-all and in the process suggest that the things it's curing were never really real in the first place *facepalm* And I will certainly try that film, it sounds lovely.

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is a lot, isn't it?

Yep! I see what you mean about the 'quiet dignity' of characters who don't get happy endings or the things they wanted—there's a kind of strength in that, bleak as it is. As well as the queer/disabled perspective, which I really liked (both Mick and Brannon seemed potentially queer to me, as well as Singer and Antonapoulos—do you think so?). But I suppose I can't believe that real connection is actually as impossible as she seems to think it is, even if the perfect 'ideal friendship' is an impossible ideal, and it feels like a too-miserable denial of any hope. I will try The Member of the Wedding, though—that does sound good!