summertime
reading by the firepit, not moving from the couch. yes, alert readers, it's true: i finally finished my second time through jane eyre. in addition to the latest movie out, i watched the version with william hurt for the fun of comparison. there are, i learned, some fun facts in the book that i had forgotten all about reading when i was in college...for example, the fact that jane discovers she has family after all in the form of three long-lost cousins.
this sentence actually made me laugh out loud, "The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment." (they don't completely freak out when she tells them she's married edward. not that i can relate, being one to impulsively jump for joy at the good news of others while emitting a high-pitched "yay!" and hugging them. jane, via charlotte bronte, would doubtless tell me to 'calm down already'.)
so, while enjoyable, it was a willful bout with faithfulness that kept me reading to the end. i daresay, it's time for some fun summer reads. my friend called today to say that she got 10 books from the library. knowing her, she'll have them done by monday! at which time i shall linger in bookstores waiting to swoop up the perfect tomes and then head to the coast--my happy place--in full and literary bliss.
9 days of school. count them, 9! so soon, off i will go on my merry way because, i'm sorry, "edline and gradequick" just do not qualify as summer reading.
this sentence actually made me laugh out loud, "The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment." (they don't completely freak out when she tells them she's married edward. not that i can relate, being one to impulsively jump for joy at the good news of others while emitting a high-pitched "yay!" and hugging them. jane, via charlotte bronte, would doubtless tell me to 'calm down already'.)
so, while enjoyable, it was a willful bout with faithfulness that kept me reading to the end. i daresay, it's time for some fun summer reads. my friend called today to say that she got 10 books from the library. knowing her, she'll have them done by monday! at which time i shall linger in bookstores waiting to swoop up the perfect tomes and then head to the coast--my happy place--in full and literary bliss.
9 days of school. count them, 9! so soon, off i will go on my merry way because, i'm sorry, "edline and gradequick" just do not qualify as summer reading.
Looooove Jane Eyre! Read it 'bout once a year. Saw the new movie with Liser and enjoyed it though there were too many drawn out pauses for myself ::character looks soulfully out over a misty landscape while dramatic music plays [again]::
ReplyDeleteGood chemistry between the actors in this version, though I like Jane in the William Hurt version better and I like Orson Wells as Rochester in the black and white version (which if you haven't seen you should!).