Pretty good, though I honestly kept forgetting this was set in the 60s--it was a bit closer to the Jane Eyre feeling than anything modern. Still, this was a pretty honest retelling of the basic story of a very enclosed and unemotional girl suddenly exposed to love for the first time since childhood and losing her idealism.
Still not real clear on the whole Iceland connection part, though. Otherwise, this was a fun book.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Daddy Long-Legs, by Jean Webster (on Nook)
I read this while Beast was in the hospital last fall, but just remembered I never blogged it here. It's one of the novels in a collection of several dozen "classics" I got for free when I first got the Nook.
The book was written in 1912. It was not great, but very much a product of the time in which it was written, about a college girl, an orphan, who is subsidized in her education, and writes a letter each month to her Daddy Long-Legs to update him on her life. She acts about 12. But it got me through hours of watching Beast sleep, so I guess I'm not too upset.
The book was written in 1912. It was not great, but very much a product of the time in which it was written, about a college girl, an orphan, who is subsidized in her education, and writes a letter each month to her Daddy Long-Legs to update him on her life. She acts about 12. But it got me through hours of watching Beast sleep, so I guess I'm not too upset.
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