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Diogenes Jan 2017 3:45pm, 25 Jan 2017 20,330 posts	0 Diogenes Agree with Becca, Freedom is good, but not as good as The Corrections.
Night-owl Jan 2017 4:00pm, 25 Jan 2017 27,111 posts	0 Night-owl Thank you both shall add it to the tbr pile. Have other books to be read first But at some point will have to check out The Corrections
Columba Jan 2017 4:48pm, 25 Jan 2017 12,274 posts	0 Columba Ooh Bint! Must settle down to writing that blog. Did you get round to The Field of the Cloth of Gold?
Bintmcskint Jan 2017 5:30pm, 25 Jan 2017 34,306 posts	0 Bintmcskint Not yet! Am really enjoying this one. I'm over half way though (it's a quick read) Due out in April. Called The Forensic Records Club.
beebop Jan 2017 6:00pm, 25 Jan 2017 881 posts	0 beebop Columba - I have an ancient prejudice against Charlotte because (from what I can remember from Mrs Gaskell's Life, and Juliet Barker's joint biography) she seems to have been rather controlling: discouraging (or stopping in her lifetime) republication of Tenant because she disapproved of it, editing Anne's poetry after her death to make her seem more resigned to fate (unforgivable, if I've got that right), reading Emily's poems without her permission - and refusing to let Anne to travel to Scarborough (when she was very ill, dying as it turned out) as soon as she wanted, instead delaying her for several weeks. It's a very unintellectual way of judging an author, and possibly influenced by being a younger sister myself! I will probably regret admitting all this. Book-wise, I cannot forgive her for how bored I was reading Villette, which probably means I should have another look and see if I've changed my mind. My sister is not like this version of Charlotte.
Columba Jan 2017 6:37pm, 25 Jan 2017 12,280 posts	0 Columba Charlotte sounds like Not A Nice Person. I'm never sure if one should totally separate an author's work from his/her private life.
Columba Jan 2017 6:38pm, 25 Jan 2017 12,281 posts	0 Columba Villette and Shirleyt are both on my shelf, but I have not read them (yet), - they are my mother's copies, or were.
Columba Jan 2017 6:39pm, 25 Jan 2017 12,282 posts	0 Columba Shirley Don't know how that "t" crept in.
Bintmcskint Jan 2017 7:35pm, 25 Jan 2017 34,307 posts	0 Bintmcskint Someone else was sitting in Grepperschair today
Night-owl Jan 2017 7:45pm, 25 Jan 2017 27,117 posts	0 Night-owl Oh no

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