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13 Mar 2023, 3:03 pm

Have you read Villette, TP?

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13 Mar 2023, 3:04 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

Have you read Villette, TP?

I have but it's been a really long time, and I only read it once. I need to reread it.

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13 Mar 2023, 3:16 pm

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IsabellaLinton wrote:

Have you read Villette, TP?

I have but it's been a really long time, and I only read it once. I need to reread it.

You really must.
Lucy is sublime, the most autistic / traumatised protagonist in English literature.

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13 Mar 2023, 3:25 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

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IsabellaLinton wrote:

Have you read Villette, TP?

I have but it's been a really long time, and I only read it once. I need to reread it.

You really must.
Lucy is sublime, the most autistic / traumatised protagonist in English literature.

I will read it soon.

I was trying to only read French or Spanish novels so I could work on my languages, but I could make an exception.

I read a Spanish translation of Jane Eyre recently because I was in a Jane Eyre mood. It was a great translation, so it was still enjoyable. Some translations are just: :lol:

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13 Mar 2023, 3:37 pm

There's one particular quote that's always stuck with me from Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus.

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The main thing about ghosts - most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it', he said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already'.

I - excuse me? I came here for a fun story about going to a summer camp and fighting monsters.

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13 Mar 2023, 3:38 pm

There's a significant amount of French prose in Villette. ^

I haven't read any Spanish Brontë works, but I've read Les Hauts de Hurlevent (WH)

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The Brontës: A Life in Letters - Juliet Barker
The Brontë Myth - Lucasta Miller
Emily Brontë: Heretic - Stevie Davies

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13 Mar 2023, 4:14 pm

Telephone book.

My brother hit me with one once.

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13 Mar 2023, 4:21 pm

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Telephone book.

My brother hit me with one once.

Someone threw a book at me once. It wasn’t as big as a telephone book, though.

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13 Mar 2023, 4:31 pm

Have you read The Canterbury Tales, TP?

Any Shakespeare, or did you just put that in your list as filler? :lol:

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13 Mar 2023, 4:33 pm

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Someone threw a book at me once.

Was it a good book?
Did you keep it, or do you prefer not owning books?

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13 Mar 2023, 4:38 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

Have you read The Canterbury Tales, TP?

Any Shakespeare, or did you just put that in your list as filler? :lol:

I took classes in both Chaucer and Shakespeare in college.

I still read Shakespeare for pleasure. My favorite plays are:

Hamlet
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
The Tempest
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Macbeth
A Winter’s Tale

I enjoy Chaucer, but his work doesn’t speak to me in quite the same way.

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13 Mar 2023, 4:43 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

Twilightprincess wrote:

Someone threw a book at me once.

Was it a good book?
Did you keep it, or do you prefer not owning books?

It was an awful book that I was trying to get someone to take when I was preaching to them. Even though I was annoying, I disapprove of such behavior. They should’ve accepted the book and used it as kindling. People just lack common sense, I think.

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13 Mar 2023, 4:45 pm

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13 Mar 2023, 4:55 pm

Looking back on it, reading "Things Fall Apart" back in high school should have been an eye opener for how how bad colonialism really is. But I also can't help but see a bit of "what goes around comes around" in this story. Countries like mine that were responsible for creating such an oppressive dystopia for indigenous people around the world like Africans and Native Americans seem to be slowly getting a taste of their own medicine. I don't even think our Western society has seen the worst of what is to come to us yet...

Also "To Kill A Mocking Bird" was one of my favorites that made me realize that the racist attitudes here in the south are just as alive today as they were when the book was set and written. And to be frank I have my doubts that things will ever really change. Racism is just ingrained into our culture and I'm lately starting to realize that too.

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13 Mar 2023, 5:06 pm

Little Women :heart:

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13 Mar 2023, 5:16 pm

Yes, Little Women.

Anne of Green Gables!! :heart:

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