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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…
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The street where the author Mircea lived, in Stefan cel Mare, of Bucharest, did not have apartment blocks, until a developer built them. Mircea used to dream of climbing mountains, way up to the peaks. After tall buildings were constructed, reality blocked his view of the distant scenery and landscape. He stopped dreaming of scaling…
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Margaret Atwood, in “Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces”, recommends Marilyn French’s three volume trilogy titled “From Eve to Dawn”. Although it is in four volumes and totaling around 800 pages, don’t let this intimidate you. Six hundred pages is like the basic volume of the average tome like Book Of Lives: A Memoir Of…
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Summary & Book Review of Georges Simenon’s The Cat Marguerite Doise, a widow, married Emile Bouin, a widower, because she pitied him. It seemed the spouses loved their pets more than they did each other. He hated her parrot while she hated his cat. Marguerite Bouin has a small appetite. Emile Bouin has a hearty…
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Margaret Atwood’s school mate had her pet cat which gave birth to a litter of kittens and she gave Margaret a kitten. (Atwood, p. 72) What did Atwood name her kitten? She called it Perky, short for Percolator. What happened to Perky? Before Atwood’s younger sister Ruth was born, her parents got rid of Perky.…