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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

Start date: March 1, 2013

Finish date: March 31, 2013

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

Shelves: bookmooch, read-2010, 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.

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Jun 16, 2011 Jailynn rated it really liked it

Well this was fun to read, written to feel like you are reading a real life young girls journal right to the very unsatisfying, unfinished end. Easy to identify with but sad as she slowly gives up her childhood a little piece at a time. If it were me I would have preferred to keep on doing my summer solstice ritual and talking to an imaginary person and writing in my journal (though I did also end my journal almost the same way, this made me want to go and finish it off properly). The end was di ...more

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May 24, 2010 Mariana Jaramillo rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Never have I seen a more honest and sincere book. The whole idea of being tremendously poor yet living in a castle in amazing, plus it has superb romantic intrigue.

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Nov 15, 2009 Barb rated it really liked it

This is a young person´s book but the main character is obsessed with Elizabeth and Darcy so I could not help but love her.

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Apr 26, 2011 S rated it liked it

Shelves: classic-literature

Not my favorite. I started out really liking this book, but about halfway through I felt like the main character was a complete moron and just felt annoyed by her for the rest of the book.

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