I read this alongside said husband, so tried to keep to an even pace, but really, I could have sat and read and read and READ. It’s always a good sign when you’re rereading a book for the umpteenth time and you STILL can’t put it down, isn’t it (I recall my husband asking me why I was gasping at a point in “Jane Eyre” when I’d clearly read it a million times before). I will use these in my round-up post at the end of the month. I hope we all approach this project in a spirit of sharing and that dissent, where it arises, is respectful.īy the way, thank you to the people who have kindly shared their book cover images with me. While I’d rather keep things positive than inspire a well-spring of anti-Murdoch ranting, I am very clear (and should be, given my own research on the value of the “common reader”) that everyone’s opinions are equally valid. And these threads and this project welcomes everyone’s opinion: the expert professors and researchers who have read everything multiple times and spent an academic lifetime studying literature in general, Murdoch in particular, the fans like me, the first-time reader and the person who doesn’t get what the fuss is about.
So I think it would probably be useful to state here and now that I’m very much not setting myself up as some kind of expert: Murdoch is my favourite author and I get a lot out of reading her, but I am a fan more than I’m a scholar. I noticed I was a little nervous about posting this first review, under the bright gaze of all the people who are joining me in this readalong.
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