Welcome to Litsy!

I was inspired by @Cuilin choosing to start off her #funsizedfiction adventure with this classic to grab a copy for myself. I had mixed feelings so maybe a low pick or a high so-so… The writing itself is fabulous, & it definitely got me thinking. There were also a few scenes that were just fantastic! But I couldn‘t appreciate it the way I was meant to because my politics are just too far removed from the social mores of the time it was written,

Wonderfully quick #funsizefiction read. An early James novella about a young woman refusing to be constrained by societies “manners”. Story told through the eyes of an admiring young man. The introduction infuriatingly suggested that since James wrote heterosexual relationships so well proves he couldn‘t have been a closeted gay man. What?

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“At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.”

So begins my #funsizefiction

I may have been watching too much Inventing Anna…after this paragraph, I read all of Daisy Miller‘s lines in that Anna Delvey accent.

had to read it for class. i appreciated that it was very short but it also wasn‘t very interesting. gotta love old time slut shaming though

Quick read about a woman who flirts with a young man that comes with consequences. Its was pretty good. Wanted it to be longer though.

I think this is the shortest classic I‘ve read (or the shortest one on my shelves, anyhow, at 92 pages).🤔

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This was a gorgeous short little thing. I‘m always so blown away when books so short can pack so many hints at so many emotions and so many possible stories into so few words. I haven‘t read any Henry James in years and even then not much (he‘s not that much of a presence in England I guess?) but I can see why he‘s such a big deal

Held high hopes in this book, but ended up not enjoying it very much.

Daisy Miller was an #Americanbeauty. #characters2017 @LibrarianRyan

Honestly one of the reasons why i love and prefer to stay in my room ❤️📚

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"The young lady meanwhile had drawn near. She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-coloured ribbon. She was bare-headed; but she balanced in her hand a large parasol with a deep border of embroidery; and she was strikingly, admirably pretty." #daisymiller #henryjames #americanliterature #booksandmaps #litstudent

He felt angry at all his shifting views--he felt ashamed of all his tender little scruples and all his witless little mercies.

"They're hopelessly vulgar," said Mrs. Costello. "Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being bad is a question for the metaphysicians. They're bad enough to blush for, at any rate; and for this short life that's quite enough."