• What book is currently on your nightstand?
  • Who is the author?
  • What genre?
  • How do you like it?
  • Would you recommend it to others?
  • starlinguk
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    1 year ago

    I’m reading Jane Eyre again and realising that what happened to Rochester had to happen, because otherwise he would have controlled Jane for the rest of his life. This was the only way she got to control him.

    I’m also reading Der Hausmann by Kolosowa and Night Watch by Pratchett

    Historical fiction, modern fiction and sort of fantasy? I recommend all of them.

    • Andjhostet
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      21 year ago

      Hmm the control aspect isn’t really something I thought about, and the ending never really sat right to me. I always considered the ending kind of sad. Yes she stood up for her values and rejected St Johns proposal, but then I felt she threw all her values away by getting back with the dude that groomed her, and almost damned her for eternity by making her a mistress. I get that it’s a deeply Christian work, and forgiveness and all that but yikes.