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The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
Kitty is a spoiled, self-centered woman living in Hong Kong with her husband, Walter (whom she married in a panic only after finding her younger sister engaged before herself). Walter is a bacteriologist, and is as boring as he sounds; but desperately in love with Kitty. Desperately in love, that is until the day he discovers that she is having an affair. Kitty's life is soon turned upside down as she is forced to move with Walter to the heart of a cholera epidemic, with the almost certain risk of death. As if moving away from the city to a village of death isn't enough; Kitty finally understands that Walter is purposefully trying to kill her. Once she arrives in the village, however, Kitty finds that there is a lot more to life than parties and dresses and one-sided love affairs.
I really enjoyed this one. While my own life is not exactly like Kitty's, there were many similarities between our situations. Reading this after my life-altering break up (yeah, I'm still hung up on that), I was really able to see how much of a jackass my ex is (he is very, very similar to Charlie. Just saying). The book is very quotable, my favorite being: "She wished to despise him, because so long as she only hated him she knew that she was very near loving him...It is a great misfortune to have a heart." Or, at least quotable to me and my shredded heart (oh, it's way past broken). While I sort of balk at one reviewer's description of this book as early chick lit, it is an apt description. Anyway, this one spoke to me and I really liked witnessing Kitty's growth and coming to terms with her actions. Now on to the movie, where I bet Edward Norton won't make Walter so boring...
I really enjoyed this one. While my own life is not exactly like Kitty's, there were many similarities between our situations. Reading this after my life-altering break up (yeah, I'm still hung up on that), I was really able to see how much of a jackass my ex is (he is very, very similar to Charlie. Just saying). The book is very quotable, my favorite being: "She wished to despise him, because so long as she only hated him she knew that she was very near loving him...It is a great misfortune to have a heart." Or, at least quotable to me and my shredded heart (oh, it's way past broken). While I sort of balk at one reviewer's description of this book as early chick lit, it is an apt description. Anyway, this one spoke to me and I really liked witnessing Kitty's growth and coming to terms with her actions. Now on to the movie, where I bet Edward Norton won't make Walter so boring...