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powerfulanne 's review for:
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
Deep into a Brontë phase, apparently, and I don't intend to come out of it anytime soon. I loved the first 75% of this book with a deep, painful love that had everything to do with the prickly but capable Lucy Snow and her (read: Charlotte Brontë's) yen for prickly, but ugly-hot colleague (girl had a type). Three-quarters of the way through I spoiled the ending for myself, and some of my enthusiasm drained away (in my defense, it's exam season, and I am just not equipped to deal with ambiguous-but-probably-unhappy endings right now). Charlotte, why couldn't you have pulled a Louisa May and let your erstwhile heroine end up with the gruff professor?? In other news, I now understand the urge to write fan fiction.
August 2022: as noted ad nauseam in my reviews this summer, the gorgon known as the multistate bar exam destroyed my brain and its ability to process literature that does not fall into the category of "extremely gentle" or "familiar favorite." I listened to this as a way to turn my brain off and enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. Now that I was braced for the ending (which, this time around, made me think lots about Bronte's own spoiled hopes re: a certain schoolteacher), I could unclench a bit and take the narrative as it came in all its tense, interior splendor. The people cry out for a masterpiece miniseries!
August 2022: as noted ad nauseam in my reviews this summer, the gorgon known as the multistate bar exam destroyed my brain and its ability to process literature that does not fall into the category of "extremely gentle" or "familiar favorite." I listened to this as a way to turn my brain off and enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. Now that I was braced for the ending (which, this time around, made me think lots about Bronte's own spoiled hopes re: a certain schoolteacher), I could unclench a bit and take the narrative as it came in all its tense, interior splendor. The people cry out for a masterpiece miniseries!