HEROINE: ... I’m sure we’ll get on like a house on fire.
I definitely cracked up when I got to this line!
Actually one of my very favorite-ist things to talk about with books is setting and houses and how the characters and the setting affect each other. Which makes me EVEN MORE EXCITED for Unspoken. YAY.
This was totally one of the questions on my AP Lit exam, except it was more specific in that setting = countryside. So which book did I pick to talk about? Why, Pride & Prejudice, of course.
I actually wrote a 40 pg paper on how Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell do this in Pride and Prejudice and North and South! It was probably the most fun I've ever had writing a paper.
I was so struck by Diana Wynne Jones's description of 'magic with the milk bottles' - I don't think magic works as believable without a tangible, believable setting. And of course with Gothics and the importance of house and atmosphere, even more so. ;)
Yessss! I adore Rebecca, but I also spent a lot of the time that I read it side-eying it so hard. Well, okay, not when I first read it--that was when I was 14 and I thought Max de Winter was soooo romantic. He was like part of the holy romance trilogy made up of him, Mr. Rochester, and the original Phantom of the Opera.
...I'm really glad I wasn't in any relationships when I was 14. Yikes.
But anyway, Rebecca is a fabulous modern-ish Gothic, even though it's basically Jane Eyre only even more depressing. And, as always, your recaps are sidesplitting.
Best summary of Rebecca ever. I enjoyed it much more than the book, which I read this past summer and which mostly served to confirm my suspicion that I should avoid all books with my name in the title on general principle. (Which is also why I have never read Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, although I suspect that is a... somewhat different book in tone and content to Du Maurier's.)
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I definitely cracked up when I got to this line!
Actually one of my very favorite-ist things to talk about with books is setting and houses and how the characters and the setting affect each other. Which makes me EVEN MORE EXCITED for Unspoken. YAY.
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So yes, I'm with you there! Fun. :D
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...I'm really glad I wasn't in any relationships when I was 14. Yikes.
But anyway, Rebecca is a fabulous modern-ish Gothic, even though it's basically Jane Eyre only even more depressing. And, as always, your recaps are sidesplitting.
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How could I never have thought about kids trapped in houses in ways many woman are not now! GENIUS!!
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