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9 years ago @ The Toast - Recovering From I ... · 1 reply · +5 points

"Sex, she imagined wistfully, should be romantic, abandoned, self-forgetful. Not the most tightly self-disciplined action in her world."

(Love the username.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - I'm Fairly Certain Kea... · 0 replies · +5 points

Except... that doesn't prove anything about whether or not he read Homer?

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Brush Off: Terribl... · 1 reply · +15 points

P.S.A. - Everyone needs to go read Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady right away, immediately please, because that article about the arsenic-gobbling Austrian peasants makes a memorable appearance, and also it is an 1875 novel about a lady detective, need I say more.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Toast Points for the W... · 0 replies · +8 points

I have that exact same feeling about Felicity Jones for the same reason. Catherine Morland for the win! "Don't say vampires. I could bear anything, but not vampires."

And I cannot wait for her to be badass in Rogue One, because anyone that good at being adorable nine years ago has probably matured into a significant badass.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Every Meal In Jane... · 0 replies · +38 points

What I've gleaned from this and the previous post in the series is that there's more actual food in the three days Jane spends starving than there is in all of Wuthering Heights.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Every Meal In Jane... · 0 replies · +24 points

That kid knows exactly what he's doing! Bronte basically invented the Marshmallow Test!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Horrifying Children's ... · 0 replies · +7 points

There's an 1864 sensation novel by Ellen Wood where the first wife, Clarice, disobeys her husband by following him to the town where he's secretly courting her sister Laura (who doesn't know the guy's her BIL). He murders Clarice and marries Laura, and then Laura pries into his secret murder documents, prompting him to be arrested. At the end, the moral of the story is presented as “have no concealments from your husband, and never disobey him” = secret to a happy life.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Jaya Catches Up: A... · 0 replies · +65 points

Calling Sara Crewe a "little shit" is so very wrong that I don't even know what to make of it.

Has she earned that title because she's nice all the time and it's easier to read something dark into that than accept it as a viable standard of behavior? Or because she's a thoughtful, intelligent child who has some unfortunate point-of-view limitations typical of her time period & culture?

10 years ago @ The Toast - The MLA Top 100: Jocks... · 0 replies · +4 points

Since the criteria of jocks vs. nerds seems to involve notions of masculinity, we should be relieved there are so few female authors on this list of the 100 Greatest Novels, right? ......right?

*weeps*

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Tenant Of Wildfell... · 0 replies · +3 points

ToWH is so raw and timeless and fascinating that I want it to be widely read, but I kinda get why it isn't, in that Helen's first-person novel-within-a-novel is where all the good stuff is, while Gilbert doesn't quite pop as a narrator in the frame story. But still, everyone who's ever been close to someone with alcoholism should read it.

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