Nov 19, 2025
ok so I found this book at a book thrift shop. I got it and read it because it’s apparently an American classic, and it took place during WW2, so I was like, “yeah yknow what I’ll read that.” So I did. And it was a really good book, I actually enjoyed it. So, here’s how I envisioned some of the characters of A Separate Peace while reading!
Someone please introduce Gene Forrester to Jesus, I think he would greatly improve from it. And therapy.
#WAR does not count as therapy btw gene I know what you’re thinking#I don’t think I got Finny exactly spot-on to how I envisioned him; however Gene is right there on what I was imagining#shoutout to the most “everyone secretly hates me” unreliable narrator guy ever. You would’ve loved gen z. And also it’s legal now.#gay stinkin book#a separate peace#gene forrester#phineas#finny#a separate peace finny#or whateva tag is#brinker hadley#elwin “leper” lepellier#leper lepellier#gene’s hair is like dark brown almost black btw#ack#draws#once gene gets Jesus and therapy; THEN he can figure out his homosexuality he’s got more important fish to fry first.#this book almost had me crying real tears for finny also. I was actually sad about him. Then I remembered he’s just a fictional character#And I got a little better but it made me think I should be helping out my own friends every moment we each have here
