Tag: this book’s got elegance / if you ain’t got elegance / you can never ever carry it off (but you can really and Marisha Pessl has proved it)

Yeah, I remember the rule. I remember the exception to the rule. It turns out Animal Farm is exactly what you get when you make rules that you know you want to break. I started jonesing so hard for The Secret History, and when I saw it at a book sale last week, I was all, Blah blah rationalization, this copy here is a trade paperback and my copy is only mass market, this and that, it’d be better to have this copy than my copy. Once I got it home, I tried to kid myself that I wasn’t going…