[ebooktalk] Re: back again

  • From: Voldi Gailans <vgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:07:41 +0100

Hi Steve,
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not wasting my time. In fact I'm fast approaching the point where I gave up with Jane Eyre last time. I think I'm a bit more in tune with it this time. Part of the problem is I think that I don't like Rochester much. I've reached the drawing-room gatherings at Thornfield, a long description of all the women in the party and quite a bit about the Charades they play. This is all rather slower than I'm used to, having read more modern books lately. I haven't studied this book but presume the focus on the women's appearance and physical description reflects Jane's anxiety about Rochester's possible involvement with them and the Charades description is presumably ment to typify the shallowness of that society. With a wife shut up in the attic and lots of pretty women about I can't work out whether Rochester is a ladies' man looking out for what he can get or whether he is really a lonely man who finds Jane more attractive because she is more intellectually stimulating than the rest of the bunch.
A few weeks ago I made a start on Caleb's Crossing by geraldine Brooks, but found I couldn't get into it. Maybe I need to try at a differnt time. 

Best wishes,

Voldi
At 17:13 02/06/2013, you wrote:

Hi Voldi

I would think it is essential to have read Jane Eyre before The Wide
Sargasso Sea. I know it is supposed to take place before the action of Jane
Eyre but if the author has foreknowledge so should the reader. I recently
made the mistake of Reading March by Geraldine Brooks which is supposed to
happen in parallael with Little Women and although all the publicity said
that you need not have read Little Women I found it rather confusing at
times because the author seemed to assume that you had the knowledge of
Little Women. I didn't like March and suspect that I wouldn't want to read
Little Women (admittedly I had seen some of a recent-ish television
version).

Steve

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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: back again

Hi David,

Welcome back and I'm glad to hear your mum is feeling better.

I'm reading Jane Eyre at present, a book I started but didn't finish some
years ago now.  One of the books we are studying on our book course later in
the year is The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, so I thought that before
reading it I should read Jane Eyre, just for completeness and because I
didn't finish it before.  I've also just started Priestley's Angel Pavement
on the Stream and think I will enjoy it.

Take care,

Voldi

At 11:11 02/06/2013, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I am back home after spending a couple of days with mum who has been a
>little unwell, but she feels a good deal better now.
>
>Not a lot of action on the list while I have been away.  What is
>everyone reading at the moment?
>
>I have to choose a new book to read, and I am scanning another Charity
>Norman book called "Freeing Grace".   It tells the story of a baby who lost
>her mother shortly after birth, and the battle between the baby's
>father, who is not really equipped to look after her, but wishes to do
>so, and prospective adopters who really want her as they are unable to
>have children of their own.
>
>The story is told from both points of view.
>
>I will attach the book once it is scanned.
>
>
>David

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