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Dr. Frankenstein’s no good very bad life

April 14, 2014 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

This one was on my “classics” bookshelf and I felt the need to be a little literary.  As an honor’s English student in high school and an English major in college, I am no stranger to Shelley’s story but wanted to dust it off and give it another look.  I figured it would be interesting to compare how far modern adaptations have strayed from the original, and I was not disappointed though I would maybe like to push Dr. Frankenstein down a flight of stairs. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: classics, horror

cheerbrarian's CBR6 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: classics, horror ·
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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Jane Eyre

February 15, 2014 by narfna 6 Comments

On this my third reading of this book, I thought I’d try something a little bit different for the review. It was either this or wax poetic like the ex-graduate student that I am, and nobody here wants to read that. (Not to mention, they don’t let you curse in graduate level writing, which is one of the many reasons I decided not to do that sort of thing anymore.)  – – – Dear Mrs. Reed, You are a dick. In the parlance of your time, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: charlotte bront, classics, feminism, gothic, jane eyre, josephine bailey, kate beaton, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Victorian

narfna's CBR6 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: charlotte bront, classics, feminism, gothic, jane eyre, josephine bailey, kate beaton, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Victorian ·
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