Been reading bits of Charlotte Brontë's Villette all day, since I'm attending a seminar on the book tomorrow morning. I missed my professor's ... , and then I'm lost in the fogs she's throwing around her. "Who am I indeed?" as she says. Villette is both scary and refreshing, and so very modern, it feels like it could have been written a hundred years after it was. I ...

... it. I liked Jane Eyre quite a bit, but I don't think it had the same impact as Villette. It was slower to start, and yet, it never stopped me from reading. It is beautifully written, with seemingly ... to rave about it's fine writing or intense feeling, as I just did about Villette. Ah well, it's still entertaining, if I do say so myself. Let me recommend it by the reviews of others so ...

... 'd so bedazzled Marshall, then 42, was Reine-Philiberte de Villette (left), a 30-year-old widow with 2 children. As a girl ... detailed in this French account of her life, following the death of the Marquis de Villette, whom she'd married by arrangement of Voltaire, Madame de Villette became a society woman. Her salon afforded an entrée into French circles for diplomats from the new American ...

... I finally graded something! Now, I have a headache. Reading posts about the movie New Moon and the book Breaking Dawn leave me going o_O. Like, for real? I want to give SMeyers the benefit of the doubt, maybe Twilight was an honest effort that got sucked down by megapopularity. But, really, I just don't get it. In other book news, I can't stop rereading the end of Villette. Sigh.

... bills alongside Carla Bozulich, Abe Vigoda, the Dead Science, Excepter, Thrones and Rain Machine. Extra Life also did a European tour, playing festivals including Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Villette Sonique (France), Kilbi (Switzerland) and Moers (Germany) and sharing bills with Sonic Youth, Sunn 0))), My Bloody Valentine and Deerhunter. Both more accessible and more severe than their previous ...

... and the last page of Anderson's epilogue is a poetic as anything else in the book, too.  Villette by Charlotte Brontë London: Penguin, 2004 (1853) trade paperback, ... teenage girl suffering from a massive inferiority complex. Actually, so does Jane Eyre, but it rises above it. Villette does not. This is the story of Lucy Snowe, a girl who no one understands-- because she's just ...