Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the...
Wow, what a dissapointing read. If it wasn't such a relatively short book, I highly doubt if I would've been able to plough through it. The writing style was very confusing. I kept thinking I had one of those Kindle versions with a shitload amount of spelling errors in it again, but apparently, it's...
The scent that came from the dress was very faint at first, then it grew stronger. The smell of vetivert and frangipanni, of cinnamon and dust and lime trees when they are flowering. The smell of the sun and the smell of the rain.This is a book about what makes human identity – and how to take it aw...
I'm honestly not even sure I understood it. I really liked Christophine because she seemed like the only sane one there. Everyone else just seemed mad.The story jumped a bit and didn't explicitly name the narrator. I felt like I was missing something, but maybe that's because I hadn't read Jane Eyre...
I am sorry to say I simply didn't get this, despite all I have heard and read about it by brilliant people who loved the book. It isn't that I disliked the book, or that I didn't understand the basics of what's going on; it is that on that fundamental level where a reader connects with a book, throu...
I am sorry to say I simply didn't get this, despite all I have heard and read about it by brilliant people who loved the book. It isn't that I disliked the book, or that I didn't understand the basics of what's going on; it is that on that fundamental level where a reader connects with a book, throu...
bookshelves: radio-4x, re-read, autumn-2012, published-1966, paper-read, colonial-overlords, caribbean-caper, fanfic-writeback Read from January 01, 1972 to October 06, 2012 Really didn't like the book but how much of that was me ::at:that:time:: *shrugs* This is up for grabs at R4x so I'll swing...
Jane Eyre is one of my favourite novels, so I was extremely curious by Wide Sargasso Sea. It’s a compact read at only 129 pages, but explores so much within that space. It’s a fascinating re-imagination of a character without voice; giving her power and a history through her own words and experience...
Jean Rhys, a Creole woman from Dominica, writes back to the racist and ableist strand in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, which painted a woman with the same background as Rhys as a monstrous lunatic, locked away on the third floor of the house. Rhys tells the story of this character from childhood, se...
I had never heard of this book until I started researching books that are considered the best novels of the 20th century. I think I know why I’ve never heard of it. It is not great. Not good even. It started out okay, but it turned into a bunch of rambles that don’t even make much sense. Yes, I...
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