Status Updates From Jamaica Inn

I’m really enjoying this so far! Mary is a solid character and du Maurier’s descriptions of the moors are great! They give me such a vivid picture in my head as I’m reading.

The copy I'm reading has way more pages than what's on Goodreads.... I only just finished chapter 15 but I'll probably try to read the rest of the book later #speedrunner (I'm like the only one in class who likes the book and isnt horribly behind I swear....)

Wil iedereen hierbij nog even aanraden Rebecca te lezen! (Deze begint ook al goed)

ya i need to wrap this up

Wait hold on. Why is this one of a boat? THIS ONE IS ABOUT A SPOOKY HOUSE!!!

i have to read this for uni, but its good timing because i'm going to use this to atone for going to see emerald fennell's (atrocious) wuthering heights

I'm subject tracking gender roles and there's so many examples that if I wrote them all down, I'd develop severe carpal tunnel...

Mary is having the worst Christmas Eve ever!

I've been forgetting to update this whoops

Mary is not fool!

🤔 what is happening?

O_O ?

But it seemed to Mary that years of fear and anxiety had taken away her powers floc concentration , and that some underlying terror prevented her from giving her whole interest to any conversation.

Yes, I'm intrigued.

Jem merlyn 🤪😩🥵

Gonna have to google what happened in that chapter cos I have no idea what I just read

I don’t want to love like a woman or feel like a woman; Mr Davey, there’s pain that way, and suffering, and misery that can last a lifetime. I didn’t bargain for this, I don’t want it 😫

on en peut plus des hommes alcooliques au name....

May have just meet Jem, but he’s already a fun character!

OG dark romance writer put some respect on her name

Mary is from Helstone! It made me think of Margret in North and South.

Oop I’m finishing it today yay

It is crazyyyyyy that this was published in 1936, Du Maurier is timeless

Liking Mary a lot - much different from the second Mrs De Winter but I think still realistic for the 19th century, so cool to see the variation in Du Mauriers MFCs. Maybe I’ll just finish it today we’ll see

Is she falling for the younger brother because…

Deadass what is going on

New worst villain of all-time list contender alert??

Reread!

I'm loving this - the brooding on the moors, the mystery around the Inn, the strength of Mary trying to deal with it all.

"Rebecca" was my first Daphne Du Maurier book and I loved it for similar reasons. Then I read My Cousin Rachel, which was meh, and then Hungry Hill, also meh. So I gave up reading her books. But I loved the BBC version of this book and decided to read it. I'm so glad I gave it a chance.

Jem Merlyn the man u are