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A review by maa
Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
2.0
Once again, I'm not quite sure how to review this.
I don't think I liked it very much. Yet I read it in one day... So... What does that say, except that I had a lot of time on my hand today?
I guess a lot of my love for Jane Eyre when through this reading, but I was never totally convinced by the narrative.
It is half biography, half fiction, maybe with a bigger half of fiction. It is descriptive, a lot. Too much for my taste. Not that I don't like descriptions, but it read more like some very long stage directions, contrived, between a flow of consciouness kind of thing and a proper victorian distance, maybe? I don't know. The scenes where Charlotte has some sort of illuminations as to how to get her book further seemed artificial. I'm not super fond either of Charlotte's character either here. She seems petty and angry and slightly vengeful.
Also I did not need to have an image of Charlotte's father banging his obliging yet not-very-into-it wife, thank you very much. Also also, is Jane Eyre really THAT oedipian? Pl-eeeease!
But, yeah. It made me want to go back to Jane Eyre, to read more biographies about the sisters, and it has picked my curiosity about Emily in particular. So I guess, as they say : brownie points for that.
2.5
I don't think I liked it very much. Yet I read it in one day... So... What does that say, except that I had a lot of time on my hand today?
I guess a lot of my love for Jane Eyre when through this reading, but I was never totally convinced by the narrative.
It is half biography, half fiction, maybe with a bigger half of fiction. It is descriptive, a lot. Too much for my taste. Not that I don't like descriptions, but it read more like some very long stage directions, contrived, between a flow of consciouness kind of thing and a proper victorian distance, maybe? I don't know. The scenes where Charlotte has some sort of illuminations as to how to get her book further seemed artificial. I'm not super fond either of Charlotte's character either here. She seems petty and angry and slightly vengeful.
Also I did not need to have an image of Charlotte's father banging his obliging yet not-very-into-it wife, thank you very much. Also also, is Jane Eyre really THAT oedipian? Pl-eeeease!
But, yeah. It made me want to go back to Jane Eyre, to read more biographies about the sisters, and it has picked my curiosity about Emily in particular. So I guess, as they say : brownie points for that.
2.5