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Nov 10Liked by Books on GIF

Honestly, that gorgeous cover was enough to make me add this to my TBR, and your review only solidified that decision!

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Thanks, Chioma! I'm glad you enjoyed the review and that you'll check out the book.

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Great review. This one has been on my list for so long but I don’t know if I can do it….

I love Jane Eyre so much and am 100000% a Rochester apologist. If loving him is wrong I don’t want to be right!!!!!

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Thanks, Eve! Yeah, Rochester does not come off the best here. In fact, YIKES. So if you do read this, brace yourself. I am excited to read Jane Eyre now and a copy is on its way!

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Nov 10Liked by Books on GIF

Great review! I read this a while back and loved it. I am also a Jane Eyre fan and have read it at least twice. I hope you like it as well.

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Thanks, Kate! Glad you enjoyed this book as well. I am excited to read Jane Eyre. My copy is on its way!

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Nov 11Liked by Books on GIF

I might not be up for reading this yet but I will, if for no other reason than I watched the 1990s NC-17 movie when I was far too young. I got held up in Puerto Rico years ago and the only thing in my bag, besides $16, was a copy of Jane Eyre. I do think the mugger needed it more than I did.

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OMG

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That is a crazy story! What intense memories to connect to these books!

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Nov 12Liked by Books on GIF

Thanks for this! I really love Jean Rhys. Actually, Kate Jones also wrote about Wide Sargasso Sea sort of recently, in case you’re interested… https://open.substack.com/pub/anarrativeoftheirown/p/wide-sargasso-sea?r=16o6r4&utm_medium=ios

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Thanks for sharing Kate’s review, Tash! Really good!

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omg i just read this for a class! one theme we talked about was the atlantic haunt .. was wondering if you thought abt this in the novel!

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Thanks, Brianna! I’m not sure I understand what Atlantic haunt means, unfortunately. Can you explain what the class discussed?

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