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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Mexico, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Feb 22, 158 pages.Mexico, The Willows, Feb 23, 105 pages.
Mexico, A Cup of Salt Tears, Feb 23, 32 pages.
Mexico, Into the Gray, Feb 23, 22 pages.
Mexico, The Call of Cthulhu, Feb 23, 43 pages.
Total 360
Mexico, El apando, Feb 19, 55 pages.Mexico, Aura, Feb 19, 65 pages.
Mexico, Red as Blood and White as Bone, Feb 19, 33 pages.
Mexico, The Gift of the Magi, Feb 22, 26 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf).
Mexico, The Black Doctor, Feb 22, 26 pages.
Total 205 + 50 bonus
Mexico, La muerte tiene permiso, Feb 17, 19 pages.Mexico, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Feb 17, 157 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf).
Samantha wrote: "Question about the 50 bonus points - for the bookshelf points, is it only the February BOTM reads or any of the past BOTM reads or any of the recent BOTM reads?"All the shelf, I have gotten points for the next months read.
Mexico, Coraline, Feb 16, 189 pages, 50 bonus points (bookshelf).
Mexico, La semana de colores, Feb 17, 267 pages.
Mexico, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19, Feb 10, 160 pages.Mexico, Man's Search for Meaning, Feb 10, 157 pages.
Mexico, A Wrinkle in Time, Feb. 6, 232 pages, 50 bonus points.
I second Maus.
JoJo_theDoDo nominated To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 336pgs, on the other thread.
Well, it will be my first time I do something like this. Hopefully, I can do a good job representing Mexico.
Happy New year, Marta!I would suggest And Then There Were None. It's a classic, but because it was such a hit in its time and everyone decided to follow the leader, it may seem a little derivative.
Anu nominated North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (521 pages), on the catch-up thread. They also have the support of Kimberly. However, they both have already made nominations here. Well, if you still want to support it, I can nominate it.
Woman Reading wrote: "She destroyed Jane's bridal veil."Okay, I was thinking more in the lines of direct or grievous harm. We totally know that the Mrs. favors arson and knife fights. From my perspective the thing with veil was just petty and annoying. However, you're very likely right about it being hard emotionally on Jane.
Don't worry about the last part, it's just me trying to make sense of the text and can remain in the land of speculation.
Jane never hears Bertha utter a word, all she has is her laughter. Yet, she is told that Bertha can talk and is quite sharped tongued, but she never is presente for it. That means the everything she says is relayed by Rochester and Richard, Jane only gets second hand information.
Option a) Bertha has amazing timing.
Option b) Jane might not understand her.
Option c) Maybe, I'm overthink it.
Mrs. Rochester had been locked up for nearly 20 years. She oh so conveniently lost her grip on her sanity after Jane's arrival. But she committed attempted murder, arson, and suicide after Jane ran away.I though that she might have talked in the foreign language or had a thick accent. Her brother and Rochester said that she insulted and threated them. In other hands that could have been a clue that they were lying, but our narrator is Jane and she is not unbiased against Bertha. I don't think she forgot how to communicate when Jane was near.
She never attacked Jane or the kid. All her violence seem to be reserved for her brother or husband. The only time we heard of her supposed cruelty is via that pairs testimony. According to her own words, she just made and noises she didn't understand and went after her veil. No threats, insults nor injuries.
I understand Jane can be surprisingly polarizing. However, for what I see it can go either way, from too perfect or selfish and short sighed.The first I kind of don't get. After all, we see she internalized Mr. Brocklehurst judgmental ways by how she describes her supposed romantic rival. There is a lot of focus on her appearance and it's decadence. Lets not forget Helen, that could have contributed to her worries about her inmortal soul. But, that poor girl so invested in God that she didn't even live.
Her anger seams completely justified. She was ill treated by her family and sent to Lowood (where kids were neglected to death). Why should she owe them kindness? She survived and thrive in spite of them.
I must confess that Bertha Mason is my favorite character. My reasoning is because almost killed Rochester. I never trust a dude that says that all his ex's were crazy or evil. Heck, Jane knew for a fact that he would grow tired and despise her if she had allowed her self to be his mistress. Bertha might have done Jane a favor by setting Thornfield on fire and wrecking the guy. After the joy of reuniting, for how would he treat her as his equal? Would he impose he wishes on Jane because he knows best? Who could she go to if things go sour? He already locked a unruly wife in the attic. Bertha pretty much metaphorically neutered* the guy in her way out. Now Rochester depends of Jane in his daily life, she has the power in this relationship. It's a lot more than what some women got in that place and time.
*I'm taking it from the context of the time this was made and how it could be interpreted. This in no shape or from is trying to disparage the disabled. If they had no regard or understanding for the mentally ill back then, I doubt whey would be kind to first, whether they be wealthy or not. For what I know Ugly Laws (check that out if you want to question the goodness in the heart of man) didn't make it to the books over there, but that is the bare minimum.
