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[rivka]

I think probably one should not read Wuthering Heights for the first time when one is nearly thirty and happily married and a psychologist.

Because, sweet Jesus, I'm supposed to think that's romantic?

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Oh, boy, you too??

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I read it for the first time this summer: 35, happily single. I spent the whole book wanting to smack every last one of 'em upside the head. Worst two hours of my life.

_Jane Eyre_, on the other hand, now there's a heroine! I hadn't read it either until this summer. I don't know what people see in Mr. Rochester, but Jane is somebody I'd like to spend time with. (Imagine that--you, me, Jane Eyre, Anne Shirley, Laura Ingalls...who else?)

Re: Oh, boy, you too??

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Jo March, you can't forget Jo March.

Re: Oh, boy, you too??

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Siiiiiiigh. OK, so there's another book that I'm supposed to have read when I was 12 and didn't. Or, rather, I did and hated it...back then, if it didn't have rocketships and BEMs I didn't want to hear about it. I'll try _Little Women_ again next time I'm at the library.

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[geminigirl]

The second book in the series was actually my favorite...Little Men

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

That was my favorite too. I didn't care much for the sequel, Jo's Boys, in which all the boys are grown up. The other Alcott book I really liked was Eight Cousins.

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[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I liked Eight Cousins too! I reread Rose in Bloom recently, though, and it seemed entirely too weepy to me.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I just read Eight Cousins. It's profoundly fluffy and preachy, but I would have liked to live their life.

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[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Well, um, how about Elizabeth Bennett?

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely Elizabeth Bennett.

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[mishalak.livejournal.com]

My idea of romance is Shards of Honor. SF and also the doomed love and everything. *sigh* Love that book.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

I wish to heck they'd release Irresistible Forces, an anthology in which Lois will have a novella-length romance/SF crossover which takes place at Miles' wedding.

I heard her read half of it at Minicon in 2002, and have been dying to know how it ends ever since.

A Literary Tea Party...

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

If I may be so bold as to suggest a female character created by a male writer, how about Irene Adler, from Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia"? Any woman who can outwit Sherlock Holmes is bound to be worth knowing.

And, although she's 20th century, what about D.L. Sayers Harriet Vane? Smart, tough, and she writes well.

Okay, I'll stop now. Well, I'll try to stop now...