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#JeanRhys
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shawnmooney
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#SundaySentence from 'In the Rue de l‘Arrivée'

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shawnmooney
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from ‘Mixing Cocktails‘

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tokorowilliamwallace
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#bookspinbingo board laid out with my TBR (options/themes) game results and my location and miscellaneous prompt jar pulls. #bookspin and #doublespin picks are categories: non-fiction library loan & owned vintage/retro self-help (90s and before). Rolls landed on 3, 13 & 15: Kate Elliott or 500+ pages/philosophy or critical theory/owned romance. #roll100 - Witch's Boy (repeat+CR)/Opal&Nev/Bhagavad Gita or Hindu spiritual text.

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Love your categories!!! 2y
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charl08
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Wondering if I should add all of these to the wishlist (from the TLS' end of year "Books authors recommend" feature.

TrishB Better had- just in case you forget 😁 2y
squirrelbrain I read the tagged book, and I think you need to have read a fair bit of Jean Rhys to appreciate it. (I‘d only read Wide Sargasso Sea). 2y
charl08 @squirrelbrain thanks - sounds like I could make it a project 💪 2y
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MissLucyIrene
Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys
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I first picked up Jane Eyre for a uni course, and I wish we had to read this book as part of it too.

It gave me so much to think about, and while it is a different style and tone to Brontë, I think it helps make the story and the characters of Rochester and “Bertha” that much more interesting.

Finished in a day too, so that‘s a bonus!

#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #penguin #widesargassosea #brontë #jeanrhys #janeeyre #readinaday

KathyWheeler I loved this book and loved getting a story about what might have turned Bertha into the madwoman in the attic. (edited) 2y
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squirrelbrain
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Mehso-so

I‘d read a review of this in the press and it sounded fascinating but I found it quite a struggle to get through.

Rhys seems a very troubled, rather unlikeable character. Much of her work is semi-autobiographical and, having only read Wide Sargasso Sea the constant references and comparisons to Rhys‘ work and the characters within were confusing rather than enlightening.

BarbaraBB The cover is gorgeous 😍 2y
Caroline2 Argh that‘s a shame. Yes I read a review too and thought it sounded good. But like you, I‘ve only read the one book of hers too so I might skip this then. 👍 2y
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Centique
Quartet | Jean Rhys
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In 1924 a young Jean Rhys (then Ella Williams) was in Paris, in some need of rescuing as her husband was in jail. Ford Madox Ford (the famous novelist) and his partner (and mother of his child) Stella Bowen took her in. Quartet is the fictionalised retelling of what happened next.
Rhys wrote this just a few years after and it is remarkable to feel her helplessness and then her rage. Memorable for its imagery and sheer emotion ⬇️

Centique Last year I read a biography of Stella Bowen and became fascinated by both women. I really wanted to know Jean‘s feelings and that is exactly what we get here. Quite brilliant in parts and it makes me keen to read 2y
Centique And by the way if you want to feel feminist rage, these two women‘s stories will get you there. What a 💩 was FMF! 2y
Liz_M I read this and had no idea one character was based on FMF. Fascinating. 2y
Centique @Liz_M isn‘t it? And he had quite the history of leaving wives after affairs with younger lovers even before this! 2y
ClairesReads I love Jean Rhys! This is a great book 2y
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Liz_M
Quartet | Jean Rhys
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Marya was content in Paris even with her husband‘s uncertain income. When he is jailed, she is thrown upon her own resources – there is no help from family in England. Marya is taken in by the Heidlers, a prominent couple in the ex-pat community and her life becomes one of quiet desperation; she is coerced to pretend respectability while being seduced by Mr. Heidler. When Stephen is released from prison, an untenable situation becomes even worse.

Liz_M Is it still #SpinsterLit if the protagonist is married?

#1001Books, #Reading1001
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Liz_M
Quartet | Jean Rhys
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Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

#LakeReading

Cathythoughts Amen 💫 3y
BarbaraBB Gorgeous! Enjoy 🤍🤍 3y
batsy That is perfect! 😍 3y
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