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Oct 11, 2007 09:44

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bluebellbicycle October 11 2007, 09:13:27 UTC
Wow what an absolutely fascinating read, and thank you for sharing it with us! It's wonderful how different people can take the same book and *have* an entirely different experience with it iykwim, based on who they are and when and where they lived. It would be really interesting to take 1 of the authors/books you specified and see what everyone's relationship was with it... /musings

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alisondh October 11 2007, 10:11:29 UTC
I didn't really expect anyone else to read it - glad you thought it was interesting!

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kathrynw October 11 2007, 09:19:35 UTC
*agrees*

That was so interesting to read and it's making me think about the books that have had a profound effect on my life and it's amazing to see the influences that books have had on our lives - you can really see how significant it is when it's all written down like that!

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alisondh October 11 2007, 10:10:38 UTC
You will note that there is nothing in there related to accountancy LOL!! Glad you thought it was interesting - I didn't really expect anyone else to read it!

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kathrynw October 11 2007, 10:19:11 UTC
To be honest, if there had been anything accountancy related in there, I think I would have been very scared!

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ruth_b123 October 11 2007, 10:04:59 UTC
Thank you for sharing that. You are the only person I have met who read Jane Eyre at a younger age than me. I was in the first year of senior school when I read it and made the English teacher's day in the third year when we studied it and he asked in his world weary voice, "I don't suppose any of you have actually read this?" and I put my hand up enthusiastically.

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alisondh October 11 2007, 10:09:49 UTC
I quite enjoyed re-reading it at school: reading books in lessons spoils them sometimes ... but we had a really good teacher that year, which helped.

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bluebellbicycle October 11 2007, 10:27:44 UTC
I read it at 13 in second year in school and didn't like it at all :( This was probably down to the teacher though, whose idea of a class involved her reading aloud to us in a droney voice every day for an hour! I must give it another go.

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jenelopy_2 October 13 2007, 07:41:44 UTC
I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to write about these books - some of them I have read and re-read hundreds of times, others I have never read (yet). I have constructed a list to take with me to the library :)

PS. I am Bethany on the CBB

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alisondh October 13 2007, 09:54:36 UTC
Hi Jenelopy/Bethany!

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