Thanks for your patience, everyone, for the #LiteraryCrew discussion questions! I posted 6 questions as spoilers. You can find them on my feed, the book‘s feed, or by searching the group‘s hashtag.
Our next book is I Am Livia by Phyllis T Smith. A reminder will be posted tomorrow!
6. The conclusion of Villette is famously ambiguous (it was made purposefully so by Brontë). Do you find it a happy ending? A sad one? ~from Penguin Random House Reader's Guide #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
5. Explore the theme of education in Villette: What is the role of education in Lucy Snowe‘s own life? ~from Penguin Random House Reader's Guide #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
4. Virginia Woolf felt that Villette was Brontë‘s “finest novel,” and speaking about Brontë, wrote that “All her force, and it is the more tremendous for being constricted, goes into the assertion, ‘I love,‘ ‘I hate,‘ ‘I suffer.‘ ” What do you think Woolf means? Do you find this observation interesting, appealing, or moving? ~from Penguin Random House Reader's Guide #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
3. Writing to her publisher, Charlotte Brontë had this to say about Villette‘s protagonist: “I consider that [Lucy Snowe] is both morbid and weak at times; her character sets up no pretensions to unmixed strength, and anybody living her life would necessarily become morbid.” What do you think of this appraisal? Do her “unheroic” qualities make her more sympathetic or less? ~from Penguin Random House reader's guide #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
2. Discuss the character of Lucy Snowe. Do you find her to be an admirable heroine? What qualities do you like in her, or dislike? How do you think you would behave in her circumstances? ~from Penguin Random House Reader's Guide #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
1. Villette is considered Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical novel. It's said that Lucy Snowe has some of Bronte's characteristics, and Monsieur Paul resembles Monsieur Heger, who one can argue Charlotte Bronte was fascinated by (or perhaps in love with). A link to an article about the Bronte sisters in Brussels is in the comments (hopefully it is not behind a paywall).
What did you think about the novel? #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
pickI have finally finished Middlemarch. I have had several attempts to complete this book..I just didn‘t engage with the characters at first. But as I read on the lives of the people in this small English town got to me…and it‘s described with words we just don‘t use anymore!!
Now for some John Boyne ❤️
#classicliterature #fiction #mustreadclassic
#BookSpinBingo March
My March list is made up of 9 #buddyreads
The above plus the tagged, a Leigh Bardugo book, Pride and Prejudice, Entitled and Brave hearted.
Plus my #Roll100 reads. https://litsy.com/p/eUlQc1FYM0k5
The rest will be selected from my tbr/library/arc pile.
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#LiteraryCrew : My apologies, but I‘ll be late posting the discussion questions. Some of you know I have two sick kitties, and Zeke took another turn for the worse overnight. My energy is pretty much focused on administering various medications to cats, probably having to make my third vet visit this week, and trying not to fall asleep (I have not had a sound sleep in a couple of weeks).
Hopefully I‘ll post later today! So sorry! #BuddyRead
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