Welcome to the Things I Can't Explain Book Club, this post I'm looking at chapters 29 & 30. You can read my buddy Brandon's thoughts on the chapters here. You and read about the other chapters by looking at this blogs past posts.
Chapter 29: Nick and Clarissa go out on the dance floor, they have themselves a nice dance to Howie Day's "Collide" and even share a kiss at the end. And then someone drives their motorcycle into the party, it's a very drunk Roxie who wants to fight Clarissa. Roxie professes her love and Nick leaves with her. I'm under the assumption he just wanted to get her out of there but they leave it with Clarissa feeling like Nick chose Roxie over her.
Chapter 30: Rupert and Jody are giving Clarissa a ride home as she thinks back on the night moments after Nick and Roxie sped away. Essentially Clarissa is coming to terms, over dramatically, that she is a failure at life since the Post closed and has been faking her way through life. She does come clean to her mother and father, but not specifics just that she's been lying. She realizes that she lied not because of her parents problems but because of her mother's condescending dismay and disappointment in her. Her dad tells her that they don't care about that stuff, they care about her.
Thoughts: What in the actual fuck, was my exact reaction after reading chapter 29. It was so over the top and absurd that it was almost a turn off. Roxie driving into the party is exceptionally unrealistic. Walking into it drunk, sure, crashing her motorcycle into it...no.
Until Next Time!
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