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Feb. 2nd, 2009 07:14 pmBook Twelve: Christy, Catherine Marshall - 496pp
I can't believe I read this whole book...
in.
one.
day.
Still, I manage to garner great pleasure out of that fact. Mr Baldwin was suitably impressed.
This was a book several of my peers were Into when we were teenagers, after the Anne of Green Gables phase had passed. I must have borrowed it from somebody at some point, because I had an idle curiosity regarding it and I remember paging through it, reading the rape scene, and promptly losing interest thereafter. I was a little surprised at the attitude these girls had about the book, making such borderline-smug statements as "NOT a book for boys to read", as if by reading it girls could be put on some higher plane of knowledge.
Now that I have read it myself, I look back and am honestly rather surprised this was even a book permitted among my group of friends, considering some of the subject matter.
( More under here, including plot spoilers )
I can't believe I read this whole book...
in.
one.
day.
Still, I manage to garner great pleasure out of that fact. Mr Baldwin was suitably impressed.
This was a book several of my peers were Into when we were teenagers, after the Anne of Green Gables phase had passed. I must have borrowed it from somebody at some point, because I had an idle curiosity regarding it and I remember paging through it, reading the rape scene, and promptly losing interest thereafter. I was a little surprised at the attitude these girls had about the book, making such borderline-smug statements as "NOT a book for boys to read", as if by reading it girls could be put on some higher plane of knowledge.
Now that I have read it myself, I look back and am honestly rather surprised this was even a book permitted among my group of friends, considering some of the subject matter.
( More under here, including plot spoilers )