Luke’s Reviews > I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Volume 1 > Status Update

Luke
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The comparisons to both Woolf and Nin are not proving credible, but then again, when do they ever. It would have been more honest to stick to the biographical context, especially concerning the author not yet being in her twenties, and leave it at that.
— May 22, 2020 03:00PM
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Luke
is on page 427 of 464
I took a book of J. J. Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloise, but after a few pages I was disgusted. As for Émile [Rousseau's book on education], I read it in honor of the Surprising One and found a few good ideas, but many useless dissertations.
— May 27, 2020 10:10AM

Luke
is on page 232 of 464
Unfortunately, I am not rich enough to buy a husband. I'll buy one only when I've lost the hope of being bought myself. A husband is a luxury animal.
— May 19, 2020 11:32AM

Luke
is on page 68 of 464
"That the scientists who have discovered the rotation of the earth and the planets, their positions, and the truth about the sun have no religious beliefs surprises me. It seems to me that because they know more about the mysteries of the world, they should have the greatest faith."
Intelligent words from a fourteen-year-old.
— May 09, 2020 12:07PM
Intelligent words from a fourteen-year-old.