I think I might have enjoyed this book better when I was a teen. The predictable love story (with its mix-ups and silliness) would have been new to me. I found the writing pleasant, as well as the descriptions of the castle and the way they were living, but the characters irritated me. Still, I'd re...
Full review at SFF Book Review.I have a love-hate-relationship with this novel. I adored the style, I found the story just eccentric and romantic enough and I cared deeply about the side characters. I just couldn't manage to like Cassandra, the protagonist and narrator. She always felt too distant a...
This starts out with a compulsively readable voice. Rose, Cassandra and Thomas the children of a modernist writer who produced one much-lauded novel and then dived off a mental headland into a spiral of literary self-doubt. Their finances have similarly spiralled downward, and (some years after th...
2000, January 12012, April 8I don't actually remember when I first read this, and I'm afraid I can't narrow it down much more than "in the last 20 years". Oh, but it remains wonderful. I picked it up because it has a castle, and a moat, and I was struck by the idea of a moat on Friday. Sometimes the...
1990-somethingThis beautiful story takes place in England just after WWII. Cassandra tells the story of her family living in an abandoned castle. Her father is a recluse, suffering because he's never been able to match the brilliance of his first novel. She tells about her first time falling in love...
I hadn't heard all that much about this novel until fairly recently, when suddenly all of the internet were talking about it as a hugely underrated novel, so I was really looking forward to reading it. The author, Dodie Smith, is perhaps best known nowadays for creating 101 Dalmatians, but this nove...
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is a charming coming-of-age story with a delightfully surprising ending that will make feminists everywhere cheer. The entire Mortmain family is adoringly quirky but realistic in its troubles, and girls everywhere will cheer Cassandra’s joys and cry over her heart...
I Capture the Castle, the first novel by Dodie Smith (of One Hundred and One Dalmatians fame) is utterly charming. Published in 1948 during Smith's stay in America, the novel is purportedly published directly from the pages of nineteen-year-old aspiring author Cassandra Mortmain's journal. While thi...
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