a woman who they say haunts this place
Feb. 10th, 2025 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smilebackwardsJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. 200 pages into this I would have said it was over-written (the version I read was I think quarto sized and made it ~700 pages which may have influenced my feelings here) but I reconciled to it as I went on and I admire the writing and all the descriptive introspection. Despite being such a well-known classic it was still kind of suspenseful to me because while I knew the whole 'wife in the attic' bit, I didn't know what was going to happen after that discovery (A Lot) and then when I got to the last chapter and it started with 'Reader, I married him' I was like THAT IS FROM THIS BOOK?!
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. I wanted to read these two books together since Wide Sargasso Sea is essentially a prequel response-type novel to Jane Eyre. This would probably be an even more disjointed novel to read without having read Jane Eyre and even having read them within days of each other I still found it hard to follow--it's purposefully written to be dream-like and about obscured tensions and falling into madness. Worth a read but I wouldn't be one of the people giving this glowing 5 star reviews.
In TV, I finished:
Silo (season 2) - While this show is sometimes filmed so darkly I literally had to watch it at night because any glare meant I could not see what was going on, I enjoy it and I want to know what happens next. Juliettte ♥
What We Do in the Shadows (season 6) - Final season! I'll miss Guillermo and the dumb Staten Island vampires.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. I wanted to read these two books together since Wide Sargasso Sea is essentially a prequel response-type novel to Jane Eyre. This would probably be an even more disjointed novel to read without having read Jane Eyre and even having read them within days of each other I still found it hard to follow--it's purposefully written to be dream-like and about obscured tensions and falling into madness. Worth a read but I wouldn't be one of the people giving this glowing 5 star reviews.
In TV, I finished:
Silo (season 2) - While this show is sometimes filmed so darkly I literally had to watch it at night because any glare meant I could not see what was going on, I enjoy it and I want to know what happens next. Juliettte ♥
What We Do in the Shadows (season 6) - Final season! I'll miss Guillermo and the dumb Staten Island vampires.
