Books bought

[ksmith]

Arrived in the mails today:

Mad Robins' POINT OF HONOUR (thanks to sartorias, who said many good things)

WITHOUT CONSCIENCE, a non-fiction work about psychopaths by Robert D Hare (because research needs must)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (in which kaygo replaces the copy she misplaced ages ago)

and finally, JANE EYRE (because I've never read it).

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

You've never read Jane Eyre? Oh! You're in for such a treat! Hee!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I confess I have never hooked up with several of the classics. But folks here talked of JE the other day in a way that piqued my interest.

I am looking forward to it.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre is one of my touchstone books. Mind you, I read it first when I was ...eight?...nine? because my grandmother had bought one of those glassed in so-called 'bookshelves', complete with 'classics' though she did not herself, y'know, read. She had however, glanced at the books and recommended Jane to me because it was "about a little girl." I'll note that the next book I read out of the bookshelf was "A Doll's House."

Have fun *g*

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My foks weren't great readers. What books I saw were non-fiction--politics, history. Occasionally Dad would dip into the odd male adventure.

I forgot when I started living at the library--8, 9?--but once they let me into adult books I never hit the classics section. Went from YA adventure to history of Hollywood, Golden Age SF, biographies, and those odd first encounter books written by folks who had been in communication with Venusians.

[emluv.livejournal.com]

How did you escape Jane Eyre? That's no mean feat. I'll be interested to hear what you think reading from an adult perspective. I read it a couple of times as a kid and adored it, but now wonder what I would have thought now if coming to it fresh.

And I just have to say that I really love your penguin icon. So cute!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

How did you escape Jane Eyre? That's no mean feat.

I can't explain it. Late grade school, we read things like The Outsiders. High school--I don't recall which books I read for English. Humanities--Twain, Boccaccio, memory fails. College courses--Beowulf to Malcolm Lowry. Poets. Shakespeare. As I noted above, left to my own devices, I didn't hit the classics. Jane Eyre was an old movie.

>I'll be interested to hear what you think reading from an adult perspective. I read it a couple of >times as a kid and adored it, but now wonder what I would have thought now if coming to it >fresh.

Now I'm really intrigued. I may start it tonight, after a chapter or two of The Historian.

>And I just have to say that I really love your penguin icon. So cute!

Thanks!