tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243923798905252664.post8844325820380217375..comments2023-10-10T03:58:32.375-07:00Comments on Fingers & Prose: Is This the Real Life?Melodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08151339860580266808noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243923798905252664.post-73833320596092511672011-09-10T10:35:58.705-07:002011-09-10T10:35:58.705-07:00I can well imagine Jane Eyre being like that. I w...I can well imagine Jane Eyre being like that. I wish that I'd read it when I was young so I could compare! I did read Anna Karenina as a teen and loved it, also read Native Son and hated it--I should give them both another go and see what happens!Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08151339860580266808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243923798905252664.post-28849353343956983782011-09-08T15:19:41.289-07:002011-09-08T15:19:41.289-07:00Your recent experience with The Great Gatsby is so...Your recent experience with The Great Gatsby is so parallel with many of my reading experiences. Some books that I read from the 8th grade-10th grade I was just not ready for. I had to reread them for a class later in life, and I loved them, much to my surprise, and wondered how I ever could have had such a negative opinion of them.<br /><br />Then again, and this is important, there are classics I read at 14 that I loved, then had to read in college, and I appreciated them in totally different ways. Jane Eyre has been such a read for me. I've read it three times: at 14, at 21, and in my 40s, and each time it was so NEW! Amazing.Judithhttp://readerinthewilderness.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com