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Oh, thanks Dele.

All the Pretty Girls Go To the City- Spoon

-from Jacob's Ladder by Donald McCaig

I never did figure out how to take a screen shot on the Mac, sad isn't it? :o But this is my current wallpaper, my hubby took the picture at Giverny last summer.

I gave up on that one too. I thought the opening scene with the pea in the ear was pretty good but it went down hill quickly from there.

Coming back to this now that I am finished, I don't think Emma or Charles were ever vilified, more victimized in my opinion, especially towards the end. While Emma was unhappy and suffering from all these romantic fantasies, would she of acted on it if Rodolphe had not so actively pursued her...

I finally finished, Yay! I am glad I finished it but I never did warm up to it, all the way to the end I had to push myself to keep with it. I don't think the detail or slow pace bothered me so much as what it was focused on, there were times where I was reading a scene and something or...

For non-fiction The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. For fiction Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi or Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. For Classic Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier or East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Hello & welcome :)

Hello & welcome :) I lived somewhat close to you, in Olympia, Washington until about 2 years ago. It is lovely in Vancouver.

I love Bill Bryson too, I've read a few books by him now, A Short History of Nearly Everything is still my fave and I have more waiting on my TBR shelf :)

I think that's why I have a hard time liking Emma, she is rather fortunate, she lives comfortably and her husband is affectionate if mediocre. Compared to what many women, Charles's mother included, experience she had little to complain about. I still don't especially dislike her either due to...

that could be, I already know how it ends because it's such a talked about book. I of course wanted to fill in my blanks by reading it but I'm finding the filler not so enthralling. I will finish it though because I've made it this far.

Ah, a question for those that have finished? I have really had to push myself through the first hundred pages and I've got to say I'm not really liking the experience, does it get any better in the last 2/3s of the book?

Did it ever say what her age was? It seems she was quite a bit younger than Charles but I don't recall what the age difference was.

Have you tried the audio book? I really liked the book but I have the audio book as well and my husband preferred that, after not getting into reading it.

One of the things that stuck with me about Emma's unhappiness with her marriage was the part where she compares the romances she read/talked/heard about at her convent school with the reality of wedding Charles. It seems she was believed life would be full of the excitement and drama of those...

That was the same reason I voted for it too :D

Yes, that conversation is in the book and the book has a few additional passages about Madame Bovary, too. It goes into a bit more discussion about Sarah's first reading of the book in school and her feelings then. I seem to like reading about the book Madame Bovary much more than I am...

I didn't finish that one either, I tried reading it and the audio book and both just didn't get done.