Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Tess!

I've read about 50 pages of Tess. It is very readable....the story is compelling. So much foreshadowing. ARGH!!!! And I can not believe her parents. They are driving me crazy. I'm just reading past the MANY vocabulary words I don't know. It would slow me down too much to look up all those words....and I'm getting the idea of the story really well without knowing every word. Has anyone else out there started????? Whew! Nese.
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  1. Molly JaeMarch 4, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    Thank you for the inspiration, I'll start this weekend.

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  2. ChristaMarch 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    Yeah, I started also and am almost 2/3 through. I am with Nese, I really was bothered by attitude of the parents. While I really enjoy many of the beautifully crafted sentences I sometimes get frustrated with the broad brush strokes the story is painted at times. It takes a long time to lead up to it but once we get to the fatal night of the illicit sex the story just skips to the birth and death of the baby with lighning speed. My favorite quote this far is "By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering", maybe that's what the story is all about.

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