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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

Start date: June 1, 2021

Finish date: June 30, 2021

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

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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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Mar 01, 2015 Kate rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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"I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has 'captured the castle' -- an ...more

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