Our passions and our reasons determine who we are and how we see the world. The protagonist, Alma, is all left brain, scientific, analytical, rational and good at language arts. The two other main characters Prudence (good at poetry, dance, and music), her sister, and Ambrose who sees the world on...
At the beginning of the year I challenged myself to finally read all of Jane Austen. I had previously read Pride & Prejudice many years ago. Recently I finished Northanger Abbey as read by Juliet Stevenson. Stevenson is a wonderful narrator who I first listened to for Mansfield Park and then for E...
Well, Ms. Austen completely succeeds in her efforts to create a heroine that you both like and want to strangle at the same time (if indeed that was her design). Given the complete mess she makes playing with those around her, Emma hardly deserves to have anything go well for herself, yet I was che...
I feel bad I waited so long to finally read this. Clueless is one of my favorite movies. I did go into this book knowing a bit about it thanks to Clueless and just it having been a part of pop culture for so long.I listen to the audiobook for this and finished it in about a week, which given that it...
Why have I reacted so differently to this novel now from the way I reacted when I first read it at the age of eighteen, more than thirty-five years ago? Then, it bored me. Now it’s moved me almost to tears and it will haunt me. I assume that my very different reactions can be put down to the passag...
Finally continuing my goal to read all of Jane Austen this year. I can see why this is not a popular book of Austen's. I did try to like Fanny, but in the end it's very difficult. I understand how she was raised and I appreciate a more introverted hero, but it's hard to like her. I also realize th...
Mrs. Dalloway is a classic of English literature that I decided to read to provide background knowledge for my anticipated reading of the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham which I understand contains parallels to this book. I read Woolf’s A Room of Our Own earlier this year for a book discussion...
An easy test of whether you'll like this book is whether you like Gaskell's contemporaries: George Eliot and Charles Dickens are the most obvious, though the plot borrows a bit of Jane Eyre and a bit of Pride and Prejudice. Gaskell writes closer to Eliot's style, but with a bit of Dickens's social c...
This was Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel and it shows. It's signficantly less assured than her better known works, [b:North and South|156538|North and South|Elizabeth Gaskell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349633381s/156538.jpg|1016482], [b:Cranford|182381|Cranford|Elizabeth Gaskell|http://d.gr-asse...
This book is based on lectures given in 1928 by the author on the subject of women and literature. The author was already recognized at the time as a gifted and successful writer, and she was invited to speak to two women's colleges at Cambridge and share her experience and wisdom to the next gener...
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