Well, Anita is in her late 20's... from the era when LKH was in her late 20's. LKH is writing what she knows. In the Merry novels, the same thing is happening. Merry is LKH at that age, complete with the clothes and make-up of the time. Heck, look at her author photos. Tell me she's not locked in a decade!
Based on LKH's blog, it sounds like she doesn't get out much. Yeah, they drag her to kid things and movies and she goes on a book tour here and there, but she really isolates herself otherwise. She doesn't go to coffee shops and watch people and listen to the way they speak, she's not hanging out in bars or clubs to see what's happening now. Heck, sometimes it seems like she doesn't even pick up a fashion mag or gossip rag in a doctor's office! All things that would bring her perspective on "what the kids are saying these days" as well as wearing, doing, trying, whatever. It bugs me that she's got her characters stuck in a decade known for bad fashion and even worse hair!
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I too, find it annoying.
Date: 2006-04-16 02:40 pm (UTC)LKH is writing what she knows.
In the Merry novels, the same thing is happening. Merry is LKH at that age, complete with the clothes and make-up of the time.
Heck, look at her author photos. Tell me she's not locked in a decade!
Based on LKH's blog, it sounds like she doesn't get out much. Yeah, they drag her to kid things and movies and she goes on a book tour here and there, but she really isolates herself otherwise. She doesn't go to coffee shops and watch people and listen to the way they speak, she's not hanging out in bars or clubs to see what's happening now. Heck, sometimes it seems like she doesn't even pick up a fashion mag or gossip rag in a doctor's office! All things that would bring her perspective on "what the kids are saying these days" as well as wearing, doing, trying, whatever. It bugs me that she's got her characters stuck in a decade known for bad fashion and even worse hair!