Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Book Club: Things I Can't Explain Chapters 35, 36 & 37

Welcome to the Things I Can't Explain Book Club, this post I'm looking at chapters 35, 36, & 37.  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 35:  Clarissa follows Roxie to a bar and confronts her.  Basically Roxie states that she and Nick have been shit for a long time, and the reason she crashed the wedding was because she wanted to see BRB in person.  BRB, well that's Nicks nickname for Clarissa before he knew her name.  She called him CCG: Cute Coffee Guy and she was BRB: Blonde Reporter Babe.  Roxie tells Clarissa that Headspace is for rent because Nick left town, maybe he went to LA she doesn't know. 

Chapter 36: Still depressed and on a self imposed shut in Clarissa is awoken by Norm knocking on her door.  Turns out MT sent him because people have been trying to reach her.  Clarissa notices that Norm is dressing like a "normal" person, isn't referring to himself in the third person and learns that he has is own MTV program.  Turns out her article was amazing and went viral.  It launched Nuzegeek into the stratosphere, and is why he got the show.  MT is waiting downstairs to talk to her.  

Chapter 37: This chapter takes places sometime later, Clarissa made a good amount of money from the article to bring her debt current.  Her parents have patched things up and are living together again taking it one day at a time.  It's been several months since Clarissa last saw Nick, we learn about what she has been up to.  She goes down to the Brooklyn Bridge where she and Nick had that special moment and we learn about a letter from Sam that she hasn't opened yet.  She finally accepts that Sam was never coming back to Manhattan, he's a Marine Archaeologist and needs to be where that is.  Nick suddenly shows up, states he did go to LA for awhile but he's back and had been building up the courage to talk to her and comes down here nightly in hopes of seeing her.  The book ends with Clarissa telling Nick that no explanations are needed. 

Thoughts:  All in all I really enjoyed the book and this further adventure of Clarissa in her mid twenties.  In the end of the story they do wrap things up in most all aspects of her life and leave us with her and Nick apparently going to make a go of being together.  

Until Next Time!

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