tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post7619432687825995336..comments2024-01-28T07:35:12.229+00:00Comments on Bloomsbury Bell: Struggling through Jane EyreBloomsbury Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12770210075581113565noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-50971714855285594182016-06-13T13:31:59.946+01:002016-06-13T13:31:59.946+01:00Such are in fact cool YouTube movies, its my luck ...Such are in fact cool YouTube movies, its my luck to go to see this web page and finding these awesome YouTube movies.<br /><a href="http://kaspupunifursity.com/our-trainer/" rel="nofollow">Singapore Dog Training</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08217223708224837918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-82804987849850222502010-08-13T20:37:29.066+01:002010-08-13T20:37:29.066+01:00What beautiful photos! And what a really lovely pl...What beautiful photos! And what a really lovely place to enjoy a meal.<br /><br />I'm curious now to hear your response to Jane Eyre when you're done. I'm also impressed that you're slogging through it when you're not loving it - I tend to stop reading if I'm not enjoying the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-57922065327624963742010-08-07T19:53:08.824+01:002010-08-07T19:53:08.824+01:00Interesting responses to this post. I read Jane Ey...Interesting responses to this post. I read Jane Eyre in my late teens and just loved it. I then reread it in my early thirties and couldn'tw quite see what I'd loved the first time around. Maybe I'll read it again when I'm forty and see how I feel/think about it then.Joan Hunter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14652041203134127783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-34028463840009532442010-08-06T09:13:39.958+01:002010-08-06T09:13:39.958+01:00Jane Eyre is okay, and I do love it, but all the B...Jane Eyre is okay, and I do love it, but all the Bronte books I've read have felt old, and a little bit lacking in humour. All that passion can get a bit tiresome. If you want to carry on experimenting with victoriana then I can recommend Wilkie Collins potboilers - they don't take themselves very seriously. I find I get pulled into them and get used to all the words at the same time which in turn makes something more worthy less daunting.Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-66392723008067700092010-08-06T06:24:16.846+01:002010-08-06T06:24:16.846+01:00I will admit that I would rather stick pins in my ...I will admit that I would rather stick pins in my eyes than read Wuthering Heights again, but Jane Eyre is another kettle of fish. First read when I was eleven, didn't understand half of it but loved reading about her early life and times at school. Read it again as a teenager and enjyed it more and then re-read in my early twenties when I became totally immersed and hooked.<br /><br />The scene in which Jane 'poor and plain' claims equality with Rochester made every hair on my body stand on end and I still get goosebumps now when reading or writing about it (yes while I am writing this comment). The impact it made on my in my youth I have never forgotten and no wonder if was regarded as a subversive and dangerous book when published and mothers would not let their daughters read it.<br /><br />One of my favourite books of all time alongside Bleak House, Middlemarch and Persuasion. Do persevere - you won't regret itElainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17739410242766153431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-79474785278689647852010-08-04T20:06:06.135+01:002010-08-04T20:06:06.135+01:00Gosh!
I'm sure you will LOVE Jane Eyre in the ...Gosh!<br />I'm sure you will LOVE Jane Eyre in the end. I gobbled it up when I was twelve -- but that was in the dim distant past when <br />we had no TV<br />internet<br />blogs<br />blah blah.<br />Much easier to read long stuff with no distractions.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964291132366262298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-14490934054727999622010-08-03T12:45:16.533+01:002010-08-03T12:45:16.533+01:00A new car - awesome! Great photos, by the way! And...A new car - awesome! Great photos, by the way! And as for Jane Eyre - it really is a good book. Hope you keep on reading it and enjoy it (if not all of it, some parts of it). Don't get me wrong, I don't really care much for Rochester (selfish!) or Jane (hypocrite!), but the writing is good. If anything, read Wide Sargasso Sea afterward and learn about Rochester (pre-Jane) and the woman in the attic. Cheers!Nadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14315207186180201488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-46263362619538330672010-08-02T09:48:18.909+01:002010-08-02T09:48:18.909+01:00Lovely photo of Godstow Nunnery! I'm always s...Lovely photo of Godstow Nunnery! I'm always surprised that it's there when I walk past it...<br /><br />Afraid I'm going to be an old-bore and say "The Trout isn't what it used to be..." - new management a few years ago, who made it very pretty but also took away a lot of the atmosphere and most of the good food...StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-10588185658347329282010-08-01T23:31:19.332+01:002010-08-01T23:31:19.332+01:00Keep going! Jane Eyre had me in tears at a partic...Keep going! Jane Eyre had me in tears at a particularly poignant place in the book, I was that emotionally involved.<br /><br />Congrats on the new car and the pub sounds lovely!Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07415316482631852565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-26720989340366411962010-08-01T21:47:28.269+01:002010-08-01T21:47:28.269+01:00Oh please do persevere with Jane Eyre. I read it ...Oh please do persevere with Jane Eyre. I read it for the first time a few months ago, and though it was hard going at the start, it has now one of my favourite novels :o)A Bookish Spacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352870732457077916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-71019057809478571362010-08-01T19:43:58.796+01:002010-08-01T19:43:58.796+01:00Oh, that was wonderful! And just to let you know n...Oh, that was wonderful! And just to let you know not everyone in the world loves those Brontë girls. Me, for one. And here is someone who didn't like Wuthering Heights:<br /><br />http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/<br />2010/04/03/abandoned-books-first-<br />quarter-2010/Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-80281329358457315902010-08-01T17:18:59.269+01:002010-08-01T17:18:59.269+01:00Lovely! And I am not consumptive, thanks very much...Lovely! And I am not consumptive, thanks very much - my cough is all gone!! I'm very impressed that you're still pushing through my beloved Jane Eyre, but the language is all part of the pleasure and you've got to just IMMERSE yourself in it. Don't make me start lecturing you that without 19th century literature, modernist literature wouldn't even EXIST...!!Rachel (Book Snob)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13669640788036671572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805373502140195662.post-76354063910566231772010-08-01T15:40:33.234+01:002010-08-01T15:40:33.234+01:00Fabulous post--though I have to disagree with you ...Fabulous post--though I have to disagree with you about Jane Eyre (then again, I read it first when young & knew nothing about overwrought syntax). As for the nunnery (many thanks for the history lesson), have you ever read Rumer Godden's <i>In This House of Brede</i>? Twentieth rather than twelfth century nuns, but great insights into the "life."<br />Completely jealous of sunset, pub & Oxford in general...dshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07616750784052488695noreply@blogger.com