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Steady as she goes: thoughts on the first half of Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady (by Jill)
Okay, okay. It’s February 3rd. And The Portrait of a Lady is the January AP English Challenge book. I know. But come on. It’s six-hundred plus pages and I also had to read One Hundred Years of Solitude, another novel … Continue reading
The most dreaded month in AP English Challenge history: pre-reading notes on The Portrait of a Lady (by Jill)
If I were to take a picture of the binding of my copy of The Portrait of a Lady you would see that the white marks stop right around page 234, where I put in a bookmark (with unicorns on … Continue reading
AP English Challenge: Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, at long last (by Jill)
Hedda Gabler is one of those evil but interesting characters we like to talk about here on Postcards from Purgatory. And along with being kind of evil, Hedda has a bonus streak of crazy. The crazy ones are the best … Continue reading
The AP English Challenge Continues: Jill Reviews Ibsen’s A Doll House
My feelings about Heinrik Ibsen’s A Doll House are not as deeply rooted or as passionate as Bethany’s. It has not been a tale I have thought much about over the past eighteen and a half years. I found nothing … Continue reading
Thoughts on Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (by Bethany)
I am rarely compelled to write plays. My ideas usually always come to me as either novels or short stories. I wrote poetry a long time ago, and once, recently, a sonnet came to me fully formed and I wrote … Continue reading
A.P. Challenge, Month #8: Pre-Reading Notes on The Portrait of a Lady, With Rare Peeks Into My Past (by Bethany)
When Jill and I planned out the AP English challenge last spring, The Portrait of a Lady was supposed to be one of its toughest hurdles. Jill says that she dreaded Lord Jim more, and she was probably right to … Continue reading
Torvald, Torvald, You Bastard, I’m Through: Thoughts on A Doll House After Reading it for What I Hope to God is the Very Last Time (by Bethany)
I don’t know what I can say about this play. Of course it’s good – if anything, it’s a model (or THE model) of what a modern play should look like. Of course it’s socially and culturally important. Of course … Continue reading
Wherein I (finally) share my final thoughts on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (by Jill)
I really thought I would blaze through Jane Eyre this time around, but it took me two weeks, and I was worried I wouldn’t finish by the end of November. I’m sure when I was twelve it took me even … Continue reading
In Which I Give Free Reign to Some Unresolved Anger Issues: Pre-Reading Notes on Ibsen’s A Doll House and Hedda Gabler (by Bethany)
Literature is full of sympathetic jackasses. If you’ve been following the discussion in the comments section of my Jane Eyre review (which I recommend, by the way – it’s much more interesting than the review itself), you’ll know that I … Continue reading
Reader, I Finished It!: Final Thoughts on Jane Eyre (by Bethany)
Well, there has been no major outcry since I admitted on November 30 that I hadn’t finished Jane Eyre yet, so either my readership has forgiven me or the naysayers are right and no one really cares about book blogs … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 