Category: Book Reviews
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Peter Walsh married an Indian woman. He met her on a ship, while they were traveling to India. (Woolfe, p. 5) This is the edition I bought: This is what Amazon sells: If you buy something from this weblink, I may earn a very small commission. Thanks.
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Peter Walsh has an axe to grind with Clarissa Dalloway, because he can not forgive her for liking Richard Dalloway. However, he can not say it out explicitly, to Clarissa, because Peter “had nothing but the manners and breeding of an English genteman.” (Woolfe, p. 4) This is my copy of Mrs Dalloway: This is…
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Dear Catherine Earnshaw, I’ve been reading about your life in Wuthering Heightson the moors of Yorkshire. Please permit me to share my opinions.You love Healthcliff. You must trust him. He has shown his mettle in his dealings with your brother Hindley. What Heathcliff desires, he will obtain. He loves you and with work towards a…
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Monday, April 27 continues with letter V, for Vincent. Meditative poems Womb Song Poet Esther Vincent lost her pet dog Ealga to cancer and she voiced her thoughts and feelings in verse. Her nostalgia is read in poems of taking care of Ealga, walks with her, feeding her in health and sickness, and finally, missing…
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Catherine Earnshaw, Cathy Linton and Cathy Heathcliff are all the same girl-woman The first is the original. She fell in love with Heathcliff and desired to marry him when she grew up. However, Heathcliff was bullied like a servant at Wuthering Heights. Cathy then set her sights on their neighbor, the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange.…
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I read that Catherine Linton’s ghost is from the moors and she said “I’ve been a waif for twenty years!” (Bronte, P. 25) Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff spent their childhood in Yorkshire’s moors. Mr Lockwood was sleeping in the late Catherine Linton’s bedroom when he was awakened by “the branch of a fir tree that…
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Do you know who Maria Cartarescu is? She is the mother of the author Mircea Cartarescu. In the book Blinding The Left Wing, Inside Maria Cartarescu’s shoulder handbag: This is the cover I bought: Amazon sells this book cover: If you buy from this weblink, I may earn a small commission. Related post:
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Early in the Chapter which started on page 100, Mircea wrote that “… my father would stick his ear to my mother’s stomach and speak, and my skin, thin as a soap bubble, heard his garbled words, the way you hear noises in the house when you sink into a full bathtub.” By this introduction,…
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Mircea Cartarescu’s mother dreamed almost night of her parents, and their old family house in Tantava. (Cartarescu, p. 34) A person usually dreams of their heart’s desires. She probably thought she had the best time of her life when she was growing up, under her parents’ care. She relived those memories in her dreams. This…