Book
The Response: Rediscovered Masterpiece — Cheryl
I recently re-read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (but my first reading shouldn’t even count, as it was decades ago, and the book I read then was abridged — grrrrr). This time, I was blown away by how good it was. The novel was one of those books that gets better and better and better as it progresses; the themes covered were deep, indeed — faith, vocation, law, love, morality, social convention, objective vs. subjective morality, obedience, and duty; and the characters were so real, I found myself thinking about them long after I had turned the last page.
What another amazing coincidence! I just started re-reading it last weekend! It was a pivotal book for me, in that I read it in 8th grade (and probably missed most of it’s depth) and was so drawn by the beauty of the language and the story that I never went back to those teen-series, proto-romance books. From that point out, it was the classics! I was re-reading it because I had recommended it to my daughter who has now had her fill of teen distopian novels and was looking for something new. (Love the soft focus too, btw)