The family's getting poorer, everyone's health is getting worse, the quality of the suitors is in decline...

[ It's a challenging book, and if she's being honest, not the sort of thing that she'd read on her own time, but she doesn't mind having something to talk to Yuri about. ]

I'm a little worried about how you'll like The Gunslinger, since it's a little hard to get into on its own. It's one of those books that doesn't show its true colors until you come back to it after reading the rest of the series. [ Hopefully the Japanese translation is good. ]