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I ended up enjoying this, although I got a bit tired of Evelina‘s worshipful letters to her foster father. She was almost too good (and sometimes too naive) to be true . I also found the twist at the end pretty unbelievable.
I loathed Mme DuVal and the Branghtons. Captain Mirval was a jerk, but sometimes funny. Clement was a creep, and Lord Orville was, like Evelina, almost too good to be true. So I guess they were meant to be together. ⬇️
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A late report since I‘ve spent the day with my nieces shopping
Finished Evelina #RandomClassics, Erasure and Eve
I read Hangman
I‘m currently reading Physical, Ordinary Human Failings and Wifedom
so-soWell, that certainly is a story I‘m glad to have finished 😆
Funny, but boring—the funny parts did not advance the plot and dragged on. Evelina is a sweet character, but I really didn‘t understand the attraction the men had for her, or her for Lord Orville. If Jane Austen read this and thought “I can do better,” I can see why! #RandomClassics
pickI read the novel through the Gutenberg project so while I was looking for a cover, I came across this one that seemed to fit the novel.
17 yr Evelina doesn‘t know much about the world, when friends take her to London for a few weeks. During her first dance she manages to break a lot of the rules. At time Evelina‘s naïveté is a little annoying, but it does much all the other annoying characters, mostly men who can‘t take a hint
I suppose the fake Miss Belmont and Mr. Macartney will have a happy ending now—they‘re not really brother and sister so they can get married! And if Belmont makes Macartney his heir, that‘s a pretty good outcome for the fake Miss Belmont. #RandomClassics
So it seems like Evelina‘s mom‘s friend passed off a different baby as Sir John Belmont‘s daughter??? 🤯 That‘s so much more dramatic than him abandoning 3 different women and picking a random one to be his heir! (But still, why won‘t he acknowledge Macartney? I‘m sure this will all be sorted out by the end! I have 4 more issues to go on Serial Reader!) #RandomClassics
