My feelings for Spark’s novel are mixed. Considering the story by itself, it is thematically rich. Brodie takes the idea of the teacher’s guiding role in student lives to an extreme—moulding her girls in her own image, planting within each student of her special set one specific quality inherently r...
this is the second muriel spark book i've read. the first was [b:The Girls of Slender Means|69517|The Girls of Slender Means|Muriel Spark|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348056115s/69517.jpg|976843] and i wasn't sold. i cared so little about any of the brittle bitches she wrote about. i was told by an...
Great Review:Wordly Obsessions:http://mywordlyobsessions.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/book-review-the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-by-muriel-sparks/Book Snob:http://bookssnob.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-by-muriel-spark/
I have to admit that for the first 20-30 pages of the book, my mind was halfway occupied with the question of whether or not I'd auditioned for a production of the play of this book at some point, and when I remembered my struggles with the Scottish accent, moved on to what role I'd been auditioning...
Wonderful book. I only give 5 stars to books I would like to re-read, to those I miss and this one is certainly one of them. The precision, the plot, the characters, the treatment of time and, above all, the elegant repetitions are like nothing else I have ever read. I found it mesmerising and very ...
Very nearly four stars, but I can't go that high because the author doesn't provide a strong enough motivation for the girl who betrays Miss Brodie. Miss Jean Brodie is a forty-something Scottish school teacher who never tires of reminding people that she is IN HER PRIME. Someday when I have nothin...
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