Jealous Haters Book Club: Modelland chapters five and six, “Smacking into Mirrors” and “Stunning, Statuesque, Strobotronic Stars with Stupefying Stratospheric Struts”

To refresh everyone’s memories, we’re currently re-reading Modelland after reading it as a Jealous Patrons Book Club selection in 2024. While we’re back, the narrator isn’t. The narrator hasn’t been around for a couple of chapters now. Where are they? What are they doing? Have they abandoned us? A few minutes later, Tookie stood in the doorway of the bedroom she shared with Myrracle. This threw me off. I got the impression that they lived in a mansion. A shitty, falling apart mansion, but still something big and impressive, right? I can’t have been the only one thinking that’s what was being described. A long piece of duct tape bisected the room, separating Tookie’s side from Myrracles […] That’s very sitcom of you, Tookie. But the duct tape doesn’t help, because Myrracle just throws her shit everywhere, anyway. Tookie’s bed is buried beneath mounds of stuff, described in a paragraph-long list that probably could have been edited down. Sometimes, the amount of unnecessary detail makes…