35% into Triangles, the ladies in their separate lives are falling further into their detrimental mid-life crisis circumstances. Holly is still attending the writing/critique group assembled in the city, and she still has her mind set on writing erotica (one of her many attempted endeavors). All the while, she has to deal with her hormone-raging teenage daughter who consistently never fails to anger her parents, especially her father. Holly seems to be bored with her family life, and still seeks that adventure that (she thinks) can only be found outside of a typical American family lifestyle. Like everything else in her life, she seeks more from her husband and especially more for herself. Having already cheated on him once now, she takes a different refuge at the writing meetings in which another man has caught her interest. Andrea, the single mom still continues to a seemingly lonely livelihood, and she envies the life her best friend, Holly has. So far, she has been discovering the difficulties of parenthood, especially with Harley, her teenage daughter. Along with that, she has just started a restrictive and hard-core diet with her daughter, and her struggle is evident in her hidden cheats from time to time. Marissa continues to care for her ill daughter by herself, but now her gay son has finally emerged from his time of family abandoment, and he shows a genuine kindness she has not seen since he was a young kid before Sophia was born.
19% into Looking for Alaska, Pudge (Miles) had just been kicked out of class because he was looking out the window distracted form Mr. Hyde's discussion. Alaska stands up for him, and thus follows Pudge outside (Kicked out as well), and later Katumi and the Colonel join the rebellious duo. As we go further into the novel, Pudge's attraction towards Alaska growing. He tenses up and gets nervous whenever she carelessly compliments Miles for being cute or adorable. Colonel and Katumi notice this, but not much is said on their parts.
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