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This one was a mixed bag - at times, the writing is scintillating, at others, the sisters were tedious/borderline insufferable & had me yelling "shut up waffling & get on with it!" I also found the narrative voice pompous & condescending. The plot is fairly unsophisticated but brings with it a lot to unpack re: relationships, the rich & the poor, property, propriety, intellectualism, etc. But there are some really gorgeous and evocative...cont. ⬇️

Found this gorgeous vintage paperback at a new bookstore and coffee shop in Indianapolis! Dream Palace Books was just lovely.

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw sniffing Howard‘s End on season 2 episode 8 of Just Like That
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There were parts about this book that really frustrated me, but overall I like this one. It felt like this one looked at how we are and how we appear and which is more important. 228/1,001 #1001Books #52BookClub Featuring an Inheritance; #BarnesNobleChallenge Published Before You Were Born; Double #BookSpin for March

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I don't even know why I liked this so much. I love Helen and Margaret, and even useless Tibby. But, I don't really understand why Margaret loves Henry. I guess I see my husband's faults clearly and don't care, but Henry's faults seem totally at odds with Margaret's way of living. Everything ends up neat and tidy, but in a way that feels poetic rather than easy.

I am supposed to be narrowing this year's read to my top favorites, but how can I when I keep reading such fantastic classics. Meg's speech to her pompous, condescending, above-sin husband was perfect. @sprainedbrain so glad you chose this for us to read. @arubabookwoman @jmofo

Howards End .. on Netflix.. Yes , I‘m going to have an early night & watch , I havnt seen it in years ❤️ I‘ve never read the book yet

@Butterfinger @sprainedbrain @jmofo #20thcenturyclassics After much delay on my part, I have finally mailed 2 books to you Tammy, Howard's End and Ceremony, both great reads. I have The Sound and the Fury, and hope to finish it by November's end. You should receive the books Tuesday-I have tracking # if needed.

It may be timing and my mood but in the middle of this book I was finding Forster sanctimonious and heavy handed in his philosophising. And of course the unchecked imperialism can make you cringe. But the writing is glorious, the setting and characters spell binding and then the ending is quite wonderful when he upturns the apple cart. Then Forster shows he does have insight into misogyny and the perils of patriarchy. ⬇️

“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.” #greeting #QuotsySep21

"Now that she had time to think over her own tragedy,she was unrepentant.She neither forgave him for his behaviour nor wished to forgive him.Her speech to him seemed perfect.She would not have altered a word.It had to be uttered once in a life,to adjust to lopsidedness of the world.It was spoken not only to her husband,but to thousands of men like him-a protest against the inner darkness in high places that comes with a commercial age."⬅️Catharsis

The lifes of the Wilcoxs,a conservative very paternalistic family,and the Schlegels,a family with two independent sisters,socialist and immersed in the intellectual world,are intertwined.Very little and a lot happens all at the same time.Sometimes it can be quite dense to follow the thoughts of the different characters,but they are well drawn and like all Forster's the ideas are interesting,surprisingly advanced,and the setting is beautiful.

Hi, my name is Jenni, and I really like fascinating character study sort of books set in historical England where not a whole lot actually happens. 😅

Howards End very much fit this bill for me, and despite a slow part in the middle, I enjoyed it. I really loved the Schlegel sisters, especially Margaret, and I laughed more than a little.

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This will be going out to Deborah soon. Excited for another round of #20thCenturyClassics y‘all!

Well, that was horrible. I loved Passage to India but this....no.

A perfect Saturday with perfect reading buddies

“She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.” #emergency #QuotsyFeb21

Makes me feel a bit dumb to admit this but I had a tough time understanding WTF people were saying a lot of the time in this story. Two countries separated by a common language, I guess, but I‘ve not had similar issues w/Austen or the Brontës or Dickens. I did mostly enjoy this tho, appreciate the look at class divisions & entitlement & a changing society. But it was a bit convoluted and I wasn‘t sold on the main relationship at all. 3/5 ⭐️

Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.

Their grief, though less poignant than their father‘s, grew from deeper roots, for a wife may be replaced; a mother never.

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven‘s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

[BRB making a Spotify playlist called Sublime Noise]

I‘ve had this on my physical TBR shelves since January 2020, and I have a mostly firm rule that I have to read books within a year of buying them. I don‘t know a lot about it but lucythereader on YouTube has absolutely gushed about it, plus it‘s relatively short for a classic and from a flip-through seems to have a lot of dialogue. All good things! #NowReading

I listened to the audiobook. I found the relationship between the sisters more interesting than the others. I would give this somewhere between a Pick and So So. Worth reading.

And now the read for the rest of the week. I find it odd that I‘ve never read it.

New on Serial Reader: E.M. Forster's masterpiece "Howards End." At a Hertfordshire estate, three families on different rungs of the social ladder strive and reach out to one another in this exploration of social conventions, codes of conduct, and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. Read it in 40 daily issues on Serial Reader!

I enjoyed this classic. Margaret and Helen were compelling characters and the story didn‘t go where I thought it was gonna go. Some parts dragged in the middle, but overall a good read.

“Only connect...” the novel‘s most famous quote, serves as the epigraph of the novel and a summary of its main theme: the ability (or inability) of individuals to connect meaningfully across various social, economic and ideological divisions of Edwardian England.

Connecting “the prose and the passion” - the ordinary and conventional with the sensuous and erotic - drives this story, the finest (IMHO) of Forster‘s novels.

A must read.

Taking advantage of being stuck in the house by having an impromptu movie night with my mum. I‘ve never seen the adaptation of Howard‘s End before - I read the book when I was about thirteen and if I‘m honest I can‘t remember anything at all that happened in it, I really must reread it!

Am interesting read, taking place pre-WW 1, at the beginning of the novel it showed references to diplomatic interrelations in Europe. At first I thought Forester was going to be going in the direction of a pre war novel but as I delved further into the book I noticed the real moral of the story which applies not only to people but to nations as well. “A place, as well as a person, may catch the glow. It is part of the battle against sameness.”Meg

Enjoying the new Masterpiece version showing on PBS tonight 😄 Loving Tracey Ullman!

"It was, however illogically, the good, the beautiful, the true, as opposed to the respectable, the pretty, the adequate. It was a landscape of Bocklin's beside a landscape of Leader's, strident and ill-considered, but quivering into supernatural life."
The contrast of the life of ideas led by the Schlegal sisters to the respectability of the Wilcoxes is explored in shrewd observations and sweeping musings on the changes in early ?

#humannature #MOvember
My #currentread is not letting me forget that I missed yesterday's Madonna song prompt 😃
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I finished this novel last night and i already miss the characters!
And that is how i know it was well worth the read! 🎉🎉

Oh what a beautiful read! 🥰
So many surprises and events i didn't expect to happen but i am so glad that it ended, relatively, happily for Margaret and Helen 🥰
I would most definitely read this again in the future!
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Last months book club read (I‘m a bit behind!) Jumping from dystopia to classic has been challenging but a nice change - I do love a classic! I‘ve enjoyed the themes of femininity and class vs culture that are explored in this one but feel they could‘ve been developed a bit further. I‘ve really enjoyed the characters and how they develop too.

#BlackIsTheColor #NoFemmeber I asked Rhiannon Giddens to pick out a few selections for a stack the color of her true love's hair. There is a good variety of material here, but happy love stories aren't well-represented (haven't read Howard's End yet, but doesn't sound like it 😀). So, Giddens' tune will have to fill that void, a song that is impossible not to dance to- you can feel her joy in singing about her love, and it is contagious. @Cinfhen

Perhaps one of the most brilliantly structured novels I‘ve read. Well written and intriguing and ends just right. I watched the miniseries when I finished and it was great! I highly recommend both!

Two sisters, so very much alike and yet so very different. It is their relationship that propels the story. There is a second family dynamic and though they are the folks of telegrams and industry, the energy of decision making, I found that family unlikeable. It is difficult to fathom how one family can fit inside the other. E.M. Forster captures beauty, intelligence and depth of an artistic soul in the characters of the two sisters.👇🏽

I enjoyed this book and felt it was ahead of its time as far as some women‘s and social issues are concerned. I liked the intellectualism as well as still mostly happy outlook on life as this was pre-WWI. I think the theme of this book is connection and also felt the “now” quite strongly. I felt some of the syntax to be muddled or particular to the timeframe and I‘m comfortable reading a range of authors as i have a BA in Eng. but it might be me.

Saturday morning. Still taking my time with this book. I advance a few paragraphs and then regress several pages because life lessons are dripping from every page and I want to saturate my soul.

I don't know if this #novel has the #mostgruesomecrimescene, but it might be the most horrifying to a bookworm. It takes place in a #building and involves more than one #family. #maylovesclassics #litsyclassicshost #oldcoolbooks #catchingup

Been wanting to read this even more since I read On Beauty a little while ago. #family #maylovesclassics #litsyclassics

#ReadingResolutions - Current Book Quote: It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.
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Another favourite book of mine. #howardsend #emforster #classic

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Purple tulips always remind me of my mom. Happy Mother's Day to all who are celebrating the day themselves or thinking of the mothers in their lives. 💜💜💜