tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post1902727244141145707..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: The Dodie Smith CanonFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-27105225882333225372009-03-11T08:07:00.000-07:002009-03-11T08:07:00.000-07:00I enjoyed I Capture the Castle very much, but I'm ...I enjoyed I Capture the Castle very much, but I'm not sure I can reread it again. So now I've got this new Smith thing going. The Town in Bloom is not as good as ICTC, but it's fun in its own way. <BR/><BR/>I Capture the Castle might work as a text, though classic lit is still my first choice. Still, I can just see it. Cassandra-like diaries, character sketches, comparing novel to her play, etc., etc. But your students are too old for this.<BR/><BR/>Oh dear, one-third don't read? Why does this surprise me?<BR/><BR/>Is The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin? I should read it.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-5314983417287590002009-03-11T05:53:00.000-07:002009-03-11T05:53:00.000-07:00Writing from hotel in NYC: I've read I Capture the...Writing from hotel in NYC: I've read I Capture the Castle twice, and my older daugher The 101 Dalmatians. I enjoyed Capture very much; it's connected to Austen through the allusions and (for me) retreat theme. It's a youthful feeling book. The film adaptation was a subAusten movie too, and fun (as I recall). It's the sort of book reading young people should like (or I suppose they would). I have a class where 1/3rd of the people would never go near any book and they are those found in the early comp courses.<BR/><BR/>I just reread _The Blackwater Lightship_. It's moving for me, and makes me dialogue with it about my similar choices with the heroine, Helen's. _Capture_ has passages I loved but the characters remain superficial for me, a kind of playing cheerily with loss.<BR/><BR/>Rambling a bit,<BR/>EllenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com