CurrerBell's One Hundred

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CurrerBell's One Hundred

1CurrerBell
Edited: Dec 31, 2018, 1:32 am




{R} = ROOT
{K} = Kindle

January (11)
February (12)
March (10)
April (13)
May (11)
June (13)
July (12)
August (10)
September (12)
October (20)
November (7)
December (15)

2jfetting
Jan 1, 2018, 6:27 pm

Welcome! I love your username. She's my favorite.

3CurrerBell
Edited: Jan 1, 2018, 6:36 pm

I posted the Edmund Dulac illustrations to Agnes Grey to a Virago group-read thread. One of these days I mean to scan the entire six volumes and post them to a Brontë/Dulac thread on the VMC group. My own personal Top Three (in order) are Jane Eyre, The Master and Margarita, and Frost in May.

(ETA: And my favorite literary villain is Miss Scatcherd. "You dirty, disagreeable girl! You have not cleaned your nails this morning!")

4jfetting
Jan 1, 2018, 6:38 pm

Oh, those are gorgeous.

5jfetting
Jan 1, 2018, 6:40 pm

SHE IS TERRIBLE. Poor Helen. Jane Eyre is my favorite book too. It is perfect in every way (if I was to quibble with perfection, it would be the endless St. John section.)

6CurrerBell
Jan 1, 2018, 6:45 pm

>5 jfetting: BTW, St. John Rivers was apparently based on Henry Nussey, a brother of Ellen Nussey (one of CB's two best-friends-forever from school days). Henry proposed to CB on more than one occasion, not out of any sense of "romance" but because he thought she'd make a good clergyman's wife. CB got a kick out of sending St. John to India and killing him off.

8Eyejaybee
Jan 2, 2018, 6:14 am

I was very sad to read about Sue Grafton's death just a few days ago. I have read a lot of the Alphabet series and think that Kinsey Milhone ois a great character.

Best wishes for a great year of reading.

10jfetting
Feb 18, 2018, 8:19 pm

I've been wanting to read Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Did you like it?

11CurrerBell
Edited: Feb 18, 2018, 8:42 pm

>10 jfetting: It's a bit of a fluff piece but I liked it. Sort of "Jane Austen meets Lemony Snicket" – social comedy moving along with the breathless pace of A Series of Unfortunate Events. (ETA: I've had it in TBR for ages and was prompted to read it by a Persephone readathon.)

12Tess_W
Feb 20, 2018, 12:10 pm

>10 jfetting: I didn't really care for Miss Pettigrew....as Mike said, all fluff.....

21jfetting
Oct 5, 2018, 9:35 am

I do love Muriel Spark.

22CurrerBell
Oct 5, 2018, 11:48 pm

>21 jfetting: Being read in a read-a-thon for Spark's centenary.