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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: October 31, 2024

Discussion: CLASSICS READS

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Mar 12, 2007 superawesomekt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: x-well-educated-mind-list-x, favorite-books, romance, gothic, british-literature, favorite-books-read-in-high-school, to-read-again

In recent years I've been more focused on getting through my TBR than rereading old favorites. This reading of Jane Eyre was an attempt to return to my older habits: I have always been a re-reader. Ever since I was young and bored (summer vacation in hot Arizona summers was great when you were at the pool, but somehow you didn't always want to be outside...) a lot of my entertainment was mining my parents' books shelves. Anyway, this was, ahem, before the internet was widely available, and, no, ...more

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Dec 28, 2007 Cindy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I've always felt like I should read more "classics" but I've always found some excuse not to read them. So, I decided this year I'd read some. Plus, it'll help me check off more of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

I really liked this book a lot. Bronte tells a wonderful story. I particularly like the way the author has Jane acknowledge us, the readers, as she narrates the tale. I will definitely be picking up some other classics over the next year and I'll probably be adding Jane Eyre ...more

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Jan 21, 2010 Julia rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, history, re-reading

Read it (loved it) in HS, Read again as I approach my 50th year and all I can say is... The writing is gorgeous. But Jane Eyre herself as a charactor was so meek and self-effacing. I keep hearing her calling ROchester "Her Master" and "Sir". It just felt rather mroe 50 shades of Grey than I expected. I'm reading Middlemarch at the same time, and I can see the beginnnings of feminist agitation there clearly, and oerhaps Jane Eyre in her subservience is also an agitator, in terms of "is this what ...more

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Sep 19, 2007 Krista the Krazy Kataloguer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-adult-fiction, read-classics

First of all, I never knew that the subtitle of the book was "An Autobiography". I thought that the story was Jane's romance with Rochester, and that's all. However, it begins with her childhood, and is really the story of a girl's mental and emotional growth and development, about how she finds her place in the world. I enjoyed it very much! ...more

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