Finally got to Jane Eyre, it was not the greatness I had hoped for.
The 1st half is slow, the second half moves better but the plot twists are annoying.
It is a segmented book as it covers Jane's early life I never felt close to any of the characters.
She as the perennial Care Giver is supported at every step concluding with the love of her life becoming totally dependent on her.
Her time with her cousins seems most real and her zealot cousin was interesting.
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Marmion by Sir Walter scott (1808)
I read this a decade ago and found this old copy at John King Books.
I need to be in a better space for this type of reading but I do love his works.
Thia old copy has sat around since I picked it up several years ago and I decided to read it again on the 200th anniversary of its printing.
They loved small printing and books back then; you really need your close up reading glasses for this one.
I was especially prompted by the numerous references to it in Jane Eyre.
I need to be in a better space for this type of reading but I do love his works.
Thia old copy has sat around since I picked it up several years ago and I decided to read it again on the 200th anniversary of its printing.
They loved small printing and books back then; you really need your close up reading glasses for this one.
I was especially prompted by the numerous references to it in Jane Eyre.
Lin McLean Owen Wister (1897)
Summer reading means Westerns!
Lin McLean by Wister was a huge disappointment.
Hard to follow the screwed up language, dialog, story line and disjointed nature.
Killing off the 1st wife was nonsense as her corrector was far to self absorbed to have ever have done that on her own.The cynical insights in to the west of old seem real and insightful though.
The Virginian IS fantastic and is proof of his abilities.
I have soured on Wister as I have come to understand a little of the time and place he occupied.
He seems to have played a major role in the Elites of his day in trying to shape the American ideal.
America as an Eastern European derivative.
As an Italian by descent I am keenly aware of the biases placed on minorities (although I don't feel the effects of them) but he made it clear in this book what was thought of the Italian Immigrants among others.
Lin's brother who lived back East was most likely more like Owen than Lin.
So back to Zane!
Lin McLean by Wister was a huge disappointment.
Hard to follow the screwed up language, dialog, story line and disjointed nature.
Killing off the 1st wife was nonsense as her corrector was far to self absorbed to have ever have done that on her own.The cynical insights in to the west of old seem real and insightful though.
The Virginian IS fantastic and is proof of his abilities.
I have soured on Wister as I have come to understand a little of the time and place he occupied.
He seems to have played a major role in the Elites of his day in trying to shape the American ideal.
America as an Eastern European derivative.
As an Italian by descent I am keenly aware of the biases placed on minorities (although I don't feel the effects of them) but he made it clear in this book what was thought of the Italian Immigrants among others.
Lin's brother who lived back East was most likely more like Owen than Lin.
So back to Zane!
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