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5 hours ago by The English Teacher

As a reader, I'm never learning so much as when I'm reading incompetently. I make a distinction between incompetent reading and thoughtless reading. The latter is something we do when we skim the headlines, pick information out of a travel guide, or even speed through a mystery novel. The former is ...

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22 hours ago by theexile

Wide Sargasso Sea By Jean Rhys (1966) Jean Rhys’s classic revisionist novel Wide Sargasso Sea resurrects an obscure, strange figure, Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and gives her her own book. Essentially a plot device used in Jane Eyre to keep separate lover ...

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1 day ago by Schatzi

A second Summer Reading Project is being hosted over at The Valve, and the book for this summer is Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. Since I’ve been jonesing to read more Brontë anyway, this seemed like a great opportunity. Plus, a couple people over at WoTMUD.org are reading along, too. It’s a big readi ...

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1 day ago by Wannabe Fashionista

What a nice week to express the summer~ Things started up on Monday, when I thought I ought to bike to my Grandma's house for some piano practice. It's always a nice little 10 minute ride around suburbia and alongside a little rickety creek. Only, I had forgotten that my grandma was actually at home ...

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5 days ago by Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

And I really don’t have much to say about it. But that’s not to say I thought it was boring. I chose Jane Eyre as my selection for Ann and Michael’s Beowulf on the Beach summer reading challenge because I’d been wanting to read it for quite a while and could never quite get motivated for it. I’m gla ...

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6 days ago by Grand High Poobah

First off, if there is more than one BBC version of Jane Eyre out there, I do not know what it is. Secondly, I would advise both reading the book and watching the BBC series. Each is wonderful. The BBC seems to have a flair not just for drama, but for accuracy in adaptation. Jane Eyre [...]

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6 days ago by The English Teacher

I've said more than once that from now on I'll mostly read what I've read before. So far this summer I've entirely read what I haven't read before. I started with restorative works of Henry James. Edmund Wilson's essay "The Ambiguity of Henry James" led me to Jane Eyre, one of the presences lurking ...

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9 days ago by emma_in_oz

Background - This is one of my favourite novels so this is a bit of incoherent fangirling of the book. Character - Jane Eyre is a first person narrative and the strength of the story is the strength of Jane’s character. She is a remarkable narrator - small, plain, poor and fierce. I love her absolut ...

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11 days ago by gotheca

Look at someone like Jonathan Franzen, who went and sat in a room for five years and wrote The Twenty-seventh City. I’ve always thought, “That’s heroic.” —Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Poets & Writers Magazine Great twists in plot. Things that are unexpected bu ...

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12 days ago by CindyLou

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Charlotte Bronte

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