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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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it was amazing
bookshelves: classics, gothic
Read 3 times. Last read July 21, 2019 to July 24, 2019.

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Charlotte Brontë
“Do you think I am an automaton? â€� a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! â€� I have as much soul as you â€� and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal â€� as we are!”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre


Reading Progress

Finished Reading (Other Paperback Edition)
Finished Reading
April 6, 2018 – Shelved
April 6, 2018 – Shelved as: classics
April 6, 2018 – Shelved as: gothic
July 21, 2019 – Started Reading
July 21, 2019 –
page 88
13.69% "Rereading due to nostalgia.
The start is dreary for Jane. I wish I could reach inside the novel, find the Reeds and the Brocklehurst fellow and bitchslap the crap out of them. Hypocrite sods, the lot of them."
July 21, 2019 –
page 124
19.28% "Bessie: "...you look like a lady, and it is as much as I ever expected of you: you were no beauty as a child."

Twist the knife deeper, will you? Don't these people know that physical beauty is no measure of a person's character? Jeez. Plain people have a soul too, you know."
July 21, 2019 –
page 150
23.33% "Women can seek to do things too. What I like about Jane is that she was a rebel for her time and acknoweldged that women were more than obedient knitting dolls."
July 22, 2019 –
page 210
32.66% "Here it is the female heroine that saves the male interest. Compare with, for example, P&P where Mr Darcy swoops in with his money&connections and saves the day (Lizzy is witty and everything but serves as the damsel in the latter half of that book).
Jane Eyre feels ahead of its time."
July 22, 2019 –
page 252
39.19% "We know at this point Rochester meant to say "Good-night my darling" (he stops at the "my-" again in p.351 and finally finishes the phrase in p.360), so it looks like he has fallen in love with Jane at this point. She did save his life&everything.
Rochester's idea of courtship apparently is courting another woman (Ingram) and ignoring Jane entirely just to make her jealous. Eh, what? Silly man!"
July 22, 2019 –
page 281
43.7% "Subtlest confession ever. I do feel bad for him at this point."
July 22, 2019 –
page 306
47.59% "..."I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in-"..."You have noticed my tender penchant for Miss Ingram: don't you think if I married her she would regenerate me with a vengeance?"
~Trollfax Trollchester, circa 1808

He is a moody, grouchy troll but he is a witty troll. This is golden."
July 24, 2019 –
page 588
91.45% "St John also goes in the bitchslapping pile. What a dick - and he calls himself a good christian.
Also this book would have been 5 stars if not for all the annoying preaching."
July 24, 2019 – Finished Reading
February 29, 2020 – Shelved (Other Paperback Edition)

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