This marks the first time I have ever read Wuthering Heights without needing it to be Jane Eyre. And I hope Wuthering Heights appreciates that I made sacrifices in order to read it with eyes and mind uncontaminated by my frantic, abiding, decades-long love of Jane Eyre. That Mia Wasikowska movie came out and I [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Posted in 2 Stars, tagged actually the awesomeness of The Secret Garden was far more in my mind when reading this than that of Jane Eyre, all the Gothic trappings and none of the Gothic fun, can't wait to read Jane Eyre without having to worry it's prejudicing me against Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Catherine and Edgar and Earnshaw and Heathcliff and Hindley and Hareton and Linton and Linton BOOOO, Emily Bronte, I also couldn't keep the names of the houses straight, I do love Mary and Colin Lennox though, I kept hoping young Cathy would say "Hell with this" and run away to London and become an actress, I liked it when insipid Isabella was so shocked and hurt that Heathcliff turned out to be a jerk, now I want to read The Camelot Caper again, the spooky image of the girl at the window was indeed very creepy but it didn't LEAD to anything for heaven's sake, Wuthering Heights on April 30, 2011 | 58 Comments »
Review: The White Devil, Justin Evans
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged boarding school, by the way I SAW ARCADIA, I hate John Corbett and I just want y'all to know that, I learned praeteritio and many other literary figures from Cicero, is Speech Day a real thing?, Justin Evans, The White Devil on April 29, 2011 | 17 Comments »
It is never fair to finish up a book you liked a lot/loved (in this case, The Secret History — despite my best intentions of early bed, I stayed up past until midnight to finish it this past rereading time), and turn straight away to a book you haven’t read before that sounds vaguely similar. [...]
Review: How Shakespeare Changed Everything, Stephen Marche
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged do not judge. Friends holds up., How Shakespeare Changed Everything, I haven't even mentioned (praeteritio alert!) the intense weirdness of the part where Marche goes on and on about how desirable teenagers are, I listened to Mumford & Sons while reading this book and they improved my mood, I'm going to go read Becoming Shakespeare instead, nonfiction, Stephen Marche, the crankiest review I've written since Atonement, this review is about one third as cranky as my first draft of it on April 23, 2011 | 30 Comments »
You know Chandler from Friends? You know how in Friends, somebody would say something stupid, and Matthew Perry would do that thing where he would fling his whole body into one large, frantic gesture of utter incredulity? That is how I felt all the way through How Shakespeare Changed Everything. Exactly like that. I kept [...]
Review: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from a person, Heard about from the internets, tagged and I shall watch the film of Remains of the Day also, Colum McCann, everyone but me loved Tillie but I thought she came off really fake, I have at least three other reviews to post and I am going to schedule them by God!, is Colm Toibin definitely different from Colum McCann?, Let the Great World Spin, Work Book Club is not its official name on April 18, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Miscellanea: Colum McCann and Colm Toibin are the same person in my head. I now feel pleased with myself for finally reading something by Colm Toibin. Also, I find it impossible not to write Colum McCann’s name as Column. Why I read the end: I realized halfway through the book that nothing in it had [...]
Rereading
Posted in Misc., tagged Henry's sort of like Gatsby in that you know his narrative is a load of shit but you prefer it to the other possibilities, I want to read The Great Gatsby again, if I post about rereading you won't notice I'm not posting about books, in case you didn't get the memo you should read The Secret History tomorrw, rereading on April 4, 2011 | 60 Comments »
Historically — which is to say, before blogging — I have been a huge rereader, devoting a solid fifty percent of my reading time to books I have read before. These days, I reread far less often, and far fewer books, for a variety of reasons. 1. Ease of access, home. I have bitched and [...]
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