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All ghosts were once alive

The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

May 23, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I read Jane Eyre many, many years ago, when I was around 13 or 14 I think – long enough ago that I don’t recall exactly the experience of reading the novel itself beyond vague memories of the language being stuffy. I’ve seen iterations of the novel in many different movies and television shows over the years – I think most of us know the basic story by now (and if you don’t, Wikipedia will gladly spoil the novel for you, or provide a sufficient reminder […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Jean Rhys

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Jean Rhys ·
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The madwoman in the attic.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

November 30, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

I don’t know why I’m surprised I didn’t enjoy this. I nearly always react poorly to post-modernism. But, I really *wanted* to enjoy it. Every time I’ve read Jane Eyre, I’ve thought Bertha Rochester, née Mason, got a really shit deal. I’ve also thought it was really suspect that we don’t actually get any evidence of her going mad prior to being locked in an attic for years and years. I mean, if I’d been locked in an attic for that long maybe I would start […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jane eyre, Jean Rhys, lit-fic, Literature, narfna, Postmodernism, read harder challenge 2018, Wide Sargasso Sea

narfna's CBR10 Review No:155 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jane eyre, Jean Rhys, lit-fic, Literature, narfna, Postmodernism, read harder challenge 2018, Wide Sargasso Sea ·
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Weird mix of weird

Across Five Aprils; Little Tales of Misogyny; Black Dahlia and White Rose; Wide Sargasso Sea; Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Irene Hunt; Patricia Highsmith; Joyce Carol Oates; Jean Rhys; Rosalyn Schanzer

October 17, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Across Five Aprils: 4/ 5 Stars This is another Civil War book, and another Civil War book taking place in the midwest, that I read as a kid. I grew up in the South and thought about the Civil War a LOT. It happens. Anyway, like Rifles for Watie mentioned in the previous one, this focuses on the western theater of the war but still deals a lot with the news from the East. This becomes a kind of interesting conceit, where our main character […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:417 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches ·
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Nothing. I must be solid as an oak. Except when I cry.

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

July 18, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If the earlier collection of stories by Robert Musil provides a lamentation on the loss of teleology, then this book is a kind of celebration of it, at least through the eyes of its protagonist. Protagonist is such an important distinction in this novel, like many others, from the idea of a “hero.” It’s something I have to teach my students again and again. The protagonist is our focal point, not our hero. A protagonist can indeed be a hero, but it’s not required. We […]

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vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:297 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Good Morning Midnight, Jean Rhys ·
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Pardon the Nekkid Cover

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys

July 17, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I think this, of the three I have read so far, has the strongest sense of scope, pace, and subject. The idea here is that a youngish woman who was carrying on an affair with a married man got pushed to the edge and ended it. As she storms off, he prepares ways to remove her from his life. This means making she sure she is cut off financially, making sure she won’t “make a scene” or “cause a fuss” and anything else that might […]

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vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:295 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Jean Rhys ·
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Hoping to see you soon. And my landlord has complained about her too.

voyage in the dark by Jean Rhys

July 16, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In this novel, a young woman recently emigrated from the Windward Islands (today called Dominica) after her father has died finds herself in the unclear position of a stateless and familyless woman, when such things were not the most stable of situations. She works partly in the demimonde (the kind of underworld of crime, but specifically vice) and realizes there’s a rough road between that world and any kind of “respectability.” She has love affairs, strong racial opinions, lots of alcohol, and dangerous situations, but […]

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vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:293 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Jean Rhys, voyage in the dark ·
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