In response to my post today about the should-have-been romance between Jo March and Laurie Laurence in Little Women, Christina Wehner wrote a post of her own, explaining why Jo should have married Professor Bhaer, as she does in the book. You can find her post here. I was particularly struck by her observation that … Continue reading Laurie vs. Professor Bhaer: A Literary Debate
Tag: Love
Generally, I defend authors as being the most likely candidates to get a storyline right. They should know their characters better than anyone else, and their insights are very valuable—never to be discounted. Sometimes, though, I think an author’s prejudice or personal opinions can skew their understanding of their characters, and one major instance of … Continue reading When the Author Gets It Wrong: Jo March and Laurie Laurence
It’s where love meets desire on the corner of breakup and divorce. An evening out with the wrong person, and all we do is call it cheating, as though someone broke a handful of rules. Like going sixty in a forty zone. Or peeking at cards. The start of torture, unlocking Pandora’s box of doubts. … Continue reading We Call It Cheating
Can we only love what is like us What we can understand? If so, then what hope is there For Him? Too many omni’s for our finite mind Too much Too far Too hard For us to reach Him. He doesn’t need us, so why should we care? Like the Trojan women who burnt the … Continue reading Love in a Box
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader with free time must be in want of a good book…and thus begins the curious relationship between reader and the written word, much like that of a courting couple. You pick up a book and flip through its pages or read the back cover: the first … Continue reading For Better or Worse: Readers, Books, and the Marriage between Them
A Review of the 2013 Romeo & Juliet Movie I’ve seen many renditions of Romeo & Juliet: on-stage and on-screen. I saw Zeffirelli’s film version in my college Shakespeare class, and I saw the beginning of the 1996 version, Romeo + Juliet (That was as far as I could get; it was way too modernized … Continue reading Much to Do With Hate, But More With Love
In the course of writing the first four books in my unpublished sci-fi/fantasy series, I’ve come across two types of characters: those with a scripted romance and those without one. Characters with a scripted romance (or a scripted heart, you might say) seem to fall in love immediately; once they meet their counterparts, everything about … Continue reading Love at First Sentence
I recently came across Madame d’Aulnoy’s “Graciosa and Percinet” a few months back, when I was reading Phantastes and looking up the various fairy tales mentioned in the course of the book (it can be found in Andrew Lang’s “The Red Fairy Book” as a free download on ProjectGutenberg). I had never heard of this … Continue reading A Fairy Tale for Modern Sensibilities
This review will contain a modicum of spoilers, so all who do not wish to know the contents of the book had better not read any further. I think the actual question in regards to this book, the first of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels, is “Can you relate to her?” The “her,” in question, is … Continue reading Review of “Can You Forgive Her?”
Andrea Lundgren 