As for this piece, I haven't managed to get into it somehow, though I tried to months ago. I think the beginning sex scene on the train just felt forced or off to me somehow, and the descriptions of the train travel didn't feel reality-based. This irked me particularly as I've traveled cross country by train a couple times and I'm quite aware that having a room on a sleeping car is prohibitively expensive (could never afford it although I've afforded x-country flights many times), and it simply doesn't FEEL that way to travel cross country on a train. Honestly, from Pacific NW all the way to NYC is 3 days total so I think maybe the initial timeline just bugged me. That said, I'm going to quash my buzzkill and push through. Will report back!
Re: Don't the journal go - pleeeeeeeeeeease!
As for this piece, I haven't managed to get into it somehow, though I tried to months ago. I think the beginning sex scene on the train just felt forced or off to me somehow, and the descriptions of the train travel didn't feel reality-based. This irked me particularly as I've traveled cross country by train a couple times and I'm quite aware that having a room on a sleeping car is prohibitively expensive (could never afford it although I've afforded x-country flights many times), and it simply doesn't FEEL that way to travel cross country on a train. Honestly, from Pacific NW all the way to NYC is 3 days total so I think maybe the initial timeline just bugged me. That said, I'm going to quash my buzzkill and push through. Will report back!