I finished reading Wuthering Heights last night. Wow, Catherine and Heathcliff have got some problems!! The story is told primarily through the view of Ellen, she is/was a servant on the Wuthering Heights property. She tells the story to a new tenant at the Grange on the property. Ellen was born on Wuthering Heights, around the same time as Catherine, and has witnessed this tragic story from infancy.
Catherine is the master's daughter. Heathcliff, well the master found him as an abandoned orphan on the road on a trip to town. Catherine and Heathcliff then grow up together and are a wicked pair. As children they were constantly running wild all over the moors and countryside of England. As teens, it is safe to say they are in love, although Catherine ends up accepting an offer of marriage from a rich neighbor. Her plan was to marry rich and help Heathcliff in society. It all goes terribly wrong. Heathcliff runs away, and when he returns he ends up marrying the sister of the man Catherine married. They are all miserable, Catherine and Heathcliff pretty much tell their spouses they are in love with each other. There is a moment in the book where they are together, crying and holding each other lamenting on how awful their lives are. It's so....tragic!
I'll leave it at that. It's a really great story. You can really feel the pain and angst of these characters, that's great writing! You do have to push through the language, but I found that the more I read, the easier it was and by the end I was flying through it. I give this book a 3 out of 5. A really good classic story, but hard to read! Try it!
Emily Bronte wrote this book in her 20s?! Can you believe that? Her & her sisters were sort of early day feminists, but I'm not sure it worked out well since women really had no place in the early 1800's. She died when she was 30, from a cold - she refused medical treatment. That is just stupid...that is where be over zealous about something can kill you! Anyways, she originally wrote this book under and male pen name, Ellis Belle, because she feared the book would not be well-received if it where written by a woman. Hmmmm...such a different world that what we live in!
That's that one! I'm still on Beth Moore but I'll prob finish that today. I'm also working on the craft room - wait until you see what I am doing;) Happy Saturday - enjoy your weekend!
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February 19, 2011
February 17, 2011
Books 5 & 6
Good evening!!
So, right now, I am reading TWO books at once! WHOA!
Breaking Free is a bible study type book - so it's hard to sit down and read it straight through in a day or two. So I also started Wuthering Heights as well (PS - I always want to say WURthering Heights, so forgive if it comes out that way, its hard to change my ways, lol!!) I can switch between them. It's nice being able to multi-task, isn't it?
Breaking Free is ok, I feel like my generation of Followers is less touchy-feely, more lets-get-to-it in our Christianity. I don't mean to be disrespectful at all, I'm just trying to find the words to define who I am in Christ. I feel like Beth Moore takes a long, touchy-feely way of saying: you need to give up what binds you, and find peace and freedom in Christ. The way I am, its cut-and-dry for me....just tell me, "Tina, get over yourself and your crap, give it to God and be free!" Also, breaking free of some stuff (like worry and anxiety about money or a job, or having a family, etc) may be a lifelong journey for me. Something I am always praying about, always seeking God's will in, it's never ending. I'm ok with that, I want freedom from it and hopefully one day I will have it. I'm trying to put it all into words. Some of those bible study books are geared towards certain Followers, and I don't think this one is for me. I am going to finish it though. I love all the scripture in the book - who wouldn't? I do like the journey of the study, it does help me look at my life and apply some things - I just wish it wasn't as flowery, that's not quite the right word but hopefully you get my meaning!
On to the next, Wuthering Heights. This one takes some getting used to - the language is so different. Emily Bronte wrote this book in the 1800's so you can imagine the way they spoke and conversed in England back then - it's a tad harder to comprehend than the language we know today!! I'm sticking through to the end with this one, I've always wanted to read it, this is one of those Classics I MUST read, must;) Plus I have this really cool, very very old edition of the book, maybe a second edition, its so lovely! I can imagine by grandfather and his sister reading it back in the mid-1900s, and maybe their mother reading it before them, so cool. The pages are all yellow and smelly, is it weird that I like that? I'm only a few chapters into it, so I have no real opinion yet. Stay tuned for that!
Tomorrow I am working on my craft room more - wait until you see what I am going to do, I am so excited!!! More on that later:)
Oh and I got a job! YAY!! I am donig another school counseling sub position, starting in March, good experience in a school in Harford County, about 10 mins away. I couldn't be happier! Hopefully this will give me a GOOD GOOD chance of getting a permanent job next year, Lord willing! This position will go until the end of the school year. Good times, it'll be nice to have extra money again, lol!
Night!
So, right now, I am reading TWO books at once! WHOA!
Breaking Free is ok, I feel like my generation of Followers is less touchy-feely, more lets-get-to-it in our Christianity. I don't mean to be disrespectful at all, I'm just trying to find the words to define who I am in Christ. I feel like Beth Moore takes a long, touchy-feely way of saying: you need to give up what binds you, and find peace and freedom in Christ. The way I am, its cut-and-dry for me....just tell me, "Tina, get over yourself and your crap, give it to God and be free!" Also, breaking free of some stuff (like worry and anxiety about money or a job, or having a family, etc) may be a lifelong journey for me. Something I am always praying about, always seeking God's will in, it's never ending. I'm ok with that, I want freedom from it and hopefully one day I will have it. I'm trying to put it all into words. Some of those bible study books are geared towards certain Followers, and I don't think this one is for me. I am going to finish it though. I love all the scripture in the book - who wouldn't? I do like the journey of the study, it does help me look at my life and apply some things - I just wish it wasn't as flowery, that's not quite the right word but hopefully you get my meaning!
On to the next, Wuthering Heights. This one takes some getting used to - the language is so different. Emily Bronte wrote this book in the 1800's so you can imagine the way they spoke and conversed in England back then - it's a tad harder to comprehend than the language we know today!! I'm sticking through to the end with this one, I've always wanted to read it, this is one of those Classics I MUST read, must;) Plus I have this really cool, very very old edition of the book, maybe a second edition, its so lovely! I can imagine by grandfather and his sister reading it back in the mid-1900s, and maybe their mother reading it before them, so cool. The pages are all yellow and smelly, is it weird that I like that? I'm only a few chapters into it, so I have no real opinion yet. Stay tuned for that!
Tomorrow I am working on my craft room more - wait until you see what I am going to do, I am so excited!!! More on that later:)
Oh and I got a job! YAY!! I am donig another school counseling sub position, starting in March, good experience in a school in Harford County, about 10 mins away. I couldn't be happier! Hopefully this will give me a GOOD GOOD chance of getting a permanent job next year, Lord willing! This position will go until the end of the school year. Good times, it'll be nice to have extra money again, lol!
Night!
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