It is difficult for me to say why I found I Capture the Castle so personally meaningful, which may mean that I will be falling all over myself in this review. When I first started reading I was bored and feared that the poverty of the characters would become dirty and depressing for its own sake, a...
This is a book about Cassandra. About her life...and about life in general, really. Her reflections are so real and insightful. Honesty is the main focus of the story...from my point of view anyway. She ultimately learns that there is nothing but temporary solace to be found in settling for anything...
The quirky journal of a 17 year old girl from an unconventional, impoverished Bohemian family in 1930s, charting the turmoil of love and relationships. An amusing and plausible mix of naivety and shrewd insights, enhanced by not going for the obviously tidy ending.
The book is in the format of a journal being kept by 17 year old aspiring writer Cassandra Mortmain during the 1930’s in Britain. Her journal mainly recounts a few noteworthy months in the life of her rather eccentric family: famous author father who wrote one highly original, critically acclaimed b...
Reading notes*I watched the movie for the first time with my roommate in the last few weeks of school. I enjoyed it more than I expected to (which is to say, it's quite good) but I did miss all the little funny lines which they couldn't put in without it being constant narration. Naturally, when I...
This book touched me somewhere in my heart - I think it is because I really love Cassandra, there was some essence of her that went into me.I found the book utterly immersing and as if I really was there. The characters are very real and very believable. They can become your friends for life, it was...
It's a delightful story. I've always enjoyed books being written as diaries, and I thought the characters were very well portrayed. You got to feel as if you knew them. Unfortunately I'd more or less seen the ending coming, so it wasn't as big a surprise to me as I think it was supposed to be.
This book changed my life. It was recommended to me by the librarian at school and at first I was a bit apprehensive. I was a timid reader when I was thirteen, I'd rarely read anything other than Harry Potter. But this book, from the very first page, gripped me in a way that no other book ever has d...
I Capture the Castle is a painful coming of age story about a family living in squalor. Their once brilliant father has been suffering writers block after a stint in prison. The family reminds me a bit of the Mitford Sisters. The Mitfords had an abusive father and their living conditions were unstab...
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