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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

02/22/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2465 views

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Swooped in for the reread and longed and thinned (sighed) as to howandwhy the arrangement of figurines so pleases me. In order to form a more perfect union and secure the blessings of liberty. Times four I have read pride and prejudice and …

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Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton2

Review: Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton

01/06/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast 1 Comment 3371 views

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton My rating: 3 of 5 stars Another downer from Edith Wharton, but this one struck me as more interesting than Ethan Frome (probably an unpopular opinion, but…), it was less of a stretch into literary-ness and more character-based. The slow prose suited the slow spinsters. There was room to breath, …

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Review: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

01/03/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast 2 Comments 3161 views

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was thinking while reading this that reading this is so natural. I can’t believe I haven’t read it before. I’m reading like I’m re-reading: I know everything and then she points it out and there’s the lighthouse. There’s the situation about the …

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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Review: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

12/17/201005/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast 2 Comments 3469 views

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton My rating: 3 of 5 stars A swift little book without being that nimble. But sort of endearing in parts. Wharton’s got a thing for people’s cousin’s, doesn’t she? I did enjoy the categorical *hush* that comes over characters when they talk about important things. View all my reviews

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Middlemarch by George Elliot

Review: Middlemarch by George Elliot

11/22/201005/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1909 views

Middlemarch by George Eliot My rating: 4 of 5 stars Henry James said “Middlemarch is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole.” And while I had a blast reading this and want to duke it out with him, I can’t exactly remark on the whole of it without, well, indifference. There’s no …

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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Review: Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

11/07/201005/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2575 views

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf My rating: 4 of 5 stars Time is issued to spinster ladies of wealth in long white ribbons. These they wind round and round, round and round, assisted by five female servants, a butler, a fine Mexican parrot, regular meals, Mudie’s library, and friends dropping in. What a difficult book …

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Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

Review: Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

10/27/201005/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2105 views

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence: 5 of 5 stars So exasper/exhilar/ated. Mostly ‘ated’ trying to put together what’s what in the extended monologue of this book. Methinks two Lawrence(s) in a row was a mistake. The drama gnaws at you after a while. The thinking just grinds away. Where The Rainbow is a romp, …

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Silas Marner by George Eliot

Review: Silas Marner by George Eliot

09/13/201005/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2314 views

Silas Marner by George Eliot My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m trying to come up with synonyms for ‘quaint’ to describe this little tale. Because it is a tale and it is sweet and it whips the ending in a blink and you are left to contemplate words for “quaint,” like mushroom or turtle …

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Review: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

02/12/200701/19/2011 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2085 views

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence My rating: 5 of 5 stars When we’re gone we will be both D and H and H and D, simpering and stead. I’ll be a stake in the feild and you’ll be crap tumbling around. When we’re gone I’ll say this is just like Sons and Lovers. It …

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Review: Bid Me to Live by H.D.

07/19/200501/19/2011 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2043 views

Bid Me to Live by H.D. My rating: 4 of 5 stars Bid me to Live on an airplane to San Diego to get my mind off the fact that I didn’t want to die amidst the buildings you land on and on the beach with Paul’s cousins, great aunts and uncles, mom and sister. …

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Review: The Waves by Virginia Woolf

09/15/200301/19/2011 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 2176 views

The Waves by Virginia Woolf My rating: 5 of 5 stars How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. I begin to long for …

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Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

09/13/200301/19/2011 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1974 views

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thought about you while reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Not because the book has anything to do with you. Or because there’s a certain moral fabric that makes me think of what happened. Not even the shadows reminded me …

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Silas MarnerLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldLady Windermere's FanThe ViolenceHumours Run DeepStreets Enough to Welcome Snow

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