PaintedDiary

Let's share with the Community what we are reading, or have read.

I'll go first...I am reading an excellent novel titled, " Jane Eyer" and twas written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847 in London. I love older novels. It is full of emotion, at times will have you silently seething, and other times crying. I believe it was also made into a movie. I give it a thumbs and would recommend if you enjoy this type of writing, Old English feel language and dialog, or this type of era with realistic fantasy, castles, horses, and etc.

Below is an intro to the plot taken from Wikipedia...

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages — Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousin; her education at Lowood Academy, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean. Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism and sinister Gothic elements.

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MsJacquiiC

Never have read Jane Eyre - sounds intriguing and have heard people talk about it before...
Um - I actually have a stack of books of I've yet to get too...

• Chrysalis by JPiC Moderator Mysty
  She actually sent me an autographed copy - I've yet to get to it though, as been busy with online projects and such - But one day I shall and I'll have a review of it as well for the Literature reviews section.
  
  
• Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf - by Ntozake Shange
  A brilliant poet - I've read this collection before a while ago - but have recently ordered it for my own library... Thus far it's only collected a bit of dust LOL - but shall get to it as well....
  
  
• If I Can Cook / You Know God Can - Ntozake Shange
  It's a collection of ghetto recipes with a few witticisms as only Shange can say it... I haven't even browsed this one yet - but will, as It's been a while since I've had some good homemade ghetto food
  
  
• Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
  Ms. Fitch is the author of my favorite novel of all time, White Oleander. When I'd heard she'd published a new novel - I was ecstatic about adding it to my collection. Thus far - it too has only collected dust. The cover is still immaculate though LOL - But yes - I will get to it soon and also have a review.

So that's the list of "unreads" I have on my desk... I ordered these at the same time from Amazon.com --- One that I HAVE recently finished is another by Ntozake Shange called Betsy Brown. I should do a review hmmm.... Anyway - it was LOVELY - about a "tween" Black Girl in the midst of the Harlem renaissance coming into her own, maturation and such. It was a quaint little novel - I really enjoyed it even though it took about 1 month to finish LOL

Anyway kewl thread MS KIM

Jacquii.


ps - Just wanna say - Feel free to post your literature reviews in the little-used Literature Review section. Would love to have that section filled with Member-shared book reviews.

butchiesmom

Wow! I've heard of this book and have probably read it in the past. I love anything which has that flavor to it.

I'm reading two books....Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and The Indwelling, 7th (I think) in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Both ask you to suspend disbelief and listen to what they have to say.

From the back of Outlander...The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord---1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand. Clair is catpulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For her, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

This is my 8th? time through it, lol. There's 6 or 7 books in the series with another to be published next year. When I know there's a new one coming, I start reading the series again from the first to the last, there's always something I missed before which will be possibly referenced in the new one.

In the Left Behind book, The Indwelling, well...I just started reading it, but the antichrist has been assasinated and there are several people scattered around the world who are a central part of a christian sect trying to survive in the new world order until Christ's return about 3 1/2 years in the future.

I like the flavor of both books. I can't imagine touching a stone in a henge and finding myself 200 years in the past, but Diana did. She takes Claire and her husband in the past, Jaimie, to France, back to Scotland, to fight and lose at Culloden, out to the Carribean and the colonies on the American continent.

I like Claire's no-nonsense, no bullshit, can't tell a lie well to save her soul and how she learns to live in a world where a nicely placed lie will save her life.

The Left Behind series fascinates me because of my Sunday school upbringing. Though I consider myself an agnostic (I believe in a higher power, not the churchs), reading about what happens after the rapture has been fascinating.

I like the first person voice in Outlander, the first book is written entirely from Claire's point of view. The other book's point of view change from one person to the next but never confusing.

Pretty freakin cool.

MsJacquiiC

Yes! I know we're reading! Would be lovely to see some new reviews in the Literature section. ((hint hint ))

Jacquii.