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Monday, September 29, 2014

Under the Covers

H. got this great, small old library book edition of Wuthering Heights in Maine last week. That's one thing I love & admire about him--his broad reading interests, from National Geographic to the Bible [once in its entirety, something I as a lifelong Catholic have never done]. This book cover is beautiful. "I've never read Wuthering Heights," he marveled. I have--thanks, Prof. Elaine Showalter at Douglass College, who made the Brontës come alive, having visited the moors they called home. 

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  1. I hated Wuthering Heights when I read it as a seventh grader. I figured it was because I was too young, so I got a free (no copyright) ego ok download and read it when I was stranded somewhere with nothing else to read. I hated it more. I thought it was so awful, I told my girl if she had to read it for school, I would buy her the cliffs notes so she wouldn't have to read it.

    None of the characters were even slightly sympathetic to me. I truly didn't care what happened to them.

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  2. That was free ebook download. Darn you, auto correct on the tiny iPhone screen!

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  3. Nan. Thanks for the note. I don't remember loving it, either. But I feel like it's important because these two sisters emerged as women writers and kind of made it all up from a desolate and dreary place. Maybe that's why it is so dreary. I have to admit that I'm really liking the preface written by some professor because I like hearing about the parsonage etc. Their mom do ed young leaving 6 kids , including. 5 daughters, I think. And I think their dad dud encourage imagination ? But I love what you told your girl. You are the best. Have a good day. Alice

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  4. I meant to tyoe their mom died young. Darn typo !

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  5. Pete sits in church and reads the Bible, which actually seems like a radical move at times. We've gotta get these guys together!

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  6. Eileen, we would love to get together. What should we try to plan? A dinner out where we get sitters? Or what do you think? love alice

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  7. Hi Eileen...we have get them together, yes! should we hire sitters and go out to dinner, or what are you thinking?
    love alice

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