Publication date: 2010 Pages: 362 Word count: 104491 Ages: YA “Be good, Gaia,” Capt. Grey told her, his voice grave. She still refused to look at him, but she could feel the heated flush of anger again in her cheeks. “Cooperate with the guards. For your own sake,” he continued. “Be good yourself, Captain,” she said […]
This is just a quick post about something that’s been on my mind for a while. It’s sad that there are so many preconceived ideas about YA novels, ideas that show those who speak about them, very often haven’t read any. I’m writing for adults, children and Young Adults and in one of my writer’s […]
Publication date: 2015 Pages: 350 Word count: ? Ages: YA They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest. What a book! I finished it a while ago but I’m still stunned. Sometimes you read a book and the topic shocks you. Then you read a book […]
Publication date: 2014 Pages: 198 Word count: ? Ages: YA Last year I read my first Dana Reinhardt novel (The Summer I Learned to Fly) and liked it a great deal. The story was cute, the characters lovable but what I liked the most was the tone and the voice. I knew I would read another […]
Publication date: 1993 Pages: 180 Word count: 43,617 Ages: MG 4 – 8 I wanted to read Lois Lowry’s The Giver for ages. Not only because it was a Newbery Medal winner but because it has become one of the great MG classics and has even been made into a movie. The Giver was written at a […]
Beauty is a Sleeping Cat 
My copy – in French of course – is somewhere in the post.
I’m looking forward to reading this.
I hope you will like it. I will re-read it which should say something. I am a very reluctant re-reader.
I was very frustrated not to have found a translation of Eline Vere for the Dutch reading month. I was afraid the same would happen for this one but no, I even found a paperback copy.
I’m curious to see the connection with Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, both great novels but I didn’t like their heroin.
Exactly my problem but I liked the character Effi very much. Effi Briest is far more renowned than Eline Vere. I’m not saying it is better, I haven’t read Eline Vere.
I read this in university and remember enjoying it very much indeed!
I could relate to Effi Briest, I didn’t feel a connection to Mme Bovary or Anna Karenina. I have read a few of his other books but so far Effi Briest has stood out.
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I’ve pulled my copy out–this edition actually and am looking forward to it!
i hope you will like it. And, please feel free to read at your own pace. We (or Lizzy) will send out questions which will make the writing of the posts easier but you can do as you please and join for the last part. Emma is going to do something like that. It’s a very quick read from what I remember.
Hi Caroline, I feel very ignorant now – I hadn’t even heard of this book. Sounds as if it is very highly regarded from Lizzy’s description. I’ve entered the draw and hope to read along with you.
Of course you are not ignorant. It seems she really is overshadowed by Anna Karenina and Mme Bovary. I hope that the readalong and our Literature Month will make people want to read more Fontane and more German literature in general and Ialos hope that editors will decide to translate more.
I hope you will like Effi Briest. She is the only one of the three I could relate to.
Thank you for sharing this Caroline. Will check her page as soon as I have time to sit comfortably in front of my computer
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