I've never read Vanity Fair but now I think I'll have to. I like that the story stayed short and "sweet," though the idea of "Angelus and Becky Sharp's Excellent Adventures" is entertaining to think of.
Some of my favorite lines: --“A French tutor,” she fired back, “at Miss Pinkerton's Academy. Though,” she added with a sudden and somehow unassuming grin, “my mother sang opera, before I was born. So you're not so far off.”
--“Oh, you'll have the world and a jewel-box to put it in,” he said to her. “You will glitter, and burn, and pay them all out in the end.”
--“Oh, Angelus, we can go and take her, can't we? She sounds such a perfectly beautiful little monster – and you know how I've always longed for a daughter.”
By the way, I've finally gotten a local library card (mostly to check out audio books and ones on knitting) and have gotten the audio book of Jane Eyre. It's good listening to on the drive to and from work.
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Date: 2009-10-07 01:49 am (UTC)Some of my favorite lines:
--“A French tutor,” she fired back, “at Miss Pinkerton's Academy. Though,” she added with a sudden and somehow unassuming grin, “my mother sang opera, before I was born. So you're not so far off.”
--“Oh, you'll have the world and a jewel-box to put it in,” he said to her. “You will glitter, and burn, and pay them all out in the end.”
--“Oh, Angelus, we can go and take her, can't we? She sounds such a perfectly beautiful little monster – and you know how I've always longed for a daughter.”
By the way, I've finally gotten a local library card (mostly to check out audio books and ones on knitting) and have gotten the audio book of Jane Eyre. It's good listening to on the drive to and from work.