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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

Start date: June 1, 2021

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Mar 12, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: classics

Although the first third of this book captured my attention, the remainder of the book lost me. It was dull and boring. It was a romance novel, and not much else. I found Cassandra churlish, childish and whiny. I didn't like her at all. Perhaps that was a good choice on the author's part because the character was only 17, however she was not at all intriguing. There was no complexity to her. She was not merely flawed (which I like very much), she was cartoonish. The book dwelt too heavily on the ...more

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Jan 16, 2010 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010, bookmooch, between-wars, book-and-movie

From IMDb:
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

Lovely reading.

The movie I Capture the Castle (2003) is available at You Tube.