I am not an ex-Cleo, nor am I pining for the fjords

[cleolinda]

Not doing too much today, even by our standards. My stepfather's out drumming at the American Village in his Revolutionary soldier coat; Sister Girl and her boyfriend came over for lunch. Mom used her new ice cream maker to whip up a pretty simple vanilla, which we then put homemade hot fudge sauce and fresh strawberries on (kind of like a

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[aestas]

Jane Eyre is totally my comfort-food book too.

[lunanyteskye]

Mine too. I have a well used paperback copy at home and I have it in eBook format on my reader (which I always have with me) so it's always readily available whenever I need it. And you never know when you're gonna need some quality time with Jane.

[ms_tate]

Comfort food and Jane Eyre are always a good way to spend an afternoon.

When school ends for this year and all my 'teacherly' duties are done I think is will be the perfect time to spend a few days with Jane Eyre.

[edda]

Careful with that table. If it's messy enough, it could be hiding a moose. Moose bites kan be pretty nasti.

[insomniacafe547]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

[edda]

Yup!

[count_01]

You read Jane Eyre more than once?

Man. Don't get me wrong, it was and is a great book, but the language is so dense....I find myself again, in awe.

[cleolinda]

Really? That's been one of my top favorite books since I was thirteen. I read a lot of 19th-century stuff, though, so I may be more used to the syntax. I love history/nonfiction, for example, but a lot of it is so dry that it just puts me to sleep, so I usually find a couple of authors I really like and just read anything they write.

[count_01]

Funny yet true story: my girlfriend at the time and I were talking about Jane Eyre and she was saying how she'd read it a half-dozen times and I was complaining about how I had to look up an average of two words on every page (true) and she said, "I made it through with just the footnotes, no biggie." Beat. "Footnotes?"

Different editions. Hers had footnotes, mine, not so much. Now I have a sixth-printing first edition, and it has...footnotes! to let those of us who have merely 50,000-word vocabularies in on [all the goddam] words that haven't been used since the early 18th century.

[cleolinda]

FOOTNOTES! I LOVE FOOTNOTES! Just because there's always stuff in older books that it's impossible to catch unless 1) you were alive back then or 2) you are an expert scholar in the period.

[dramaturgca]

Hey, my brother was out this morning drumming in a Civil War band!

I would recommend Wolverine. It has the benefit of lots and lots of Hugh Jackman.