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Lädt ... Mein Sommerschloß. (1948)von Dodie Smith
  
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Haven't read this yet; but I really enjoyed Dodie Smith's original "101 Dalmatians," which I picked up at a thrift long, long ago because of the adorable dog illustrations. This non-Disney version of the story is delightfully loopy and quirky, so I'm quite sure I'll like this one too.   KaterinaBead | Oct 8, 2022 |  this book is about students future. mehwish_noor | Sep 13, 2022 | Dodie Smith gave us 101 Dalmations. Who knew? I had only ever heard of her in reference to this work, but I’m guessing Cruella DeVille was her masterpiece character. Anyway, this review is about I Capture the Castle, written in the form of seventeen year old Cassandra Mortmain’s diary. It is cute, light-hearted and completely predictable. When I read books such as this one, I always wonder if my younger self would have been enchanted, if she would have been thrilled by the idea of the castle and its avant garde inhabitants. Might be a book that requires finding at just the right moment in life to be loved. Not loved, but liked, for me, so 3-stars. (  )1  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 | I really don't get why so many people love this book so much.... I see other reviewers comparing it to Anne of Green Gables and Jane Austen and it is nothing like either of them. It is the diary of Cassandra, a teenage girl living with her older sister, younger brother, mercurial starving-artist father, and eccentric starving-artist stepmother. They are a loving family, although the father is emotionally distant and a little scary, and the children are basically left to their own devices. They rent a crumbling castle. The castle is inherited by new owners, two dashing young brothers, who come to visit and naturally it's a romance so you know where things go from there. Cassandra describes everything in excruciating detail, so the book moves very slowly. The pace picks up in the second half, although by then it feels like Cassandra is bored of writing everything in her journal so while inconsequential events in the first half get long, detailed descriptions, the monumental events of the second half go by in a blur. I guess that in some ways that shows character growth or something, but it makes for tedious reading. ( )1 Gwendydd | Apr 24, 2022 | A really lovely book, that I never would have read had it not been a book club suggestion. It’s funny and moving and sweet without ever being cloying. Cassandra is a wonderful narrator and I suspect I’ll be hearing her voice for some time to come. (  ) whatmeworry | Apr 9, 2022 |
 This book was such a wonderful, enchanting and unpredictable read that by the end of it I felt like I almost was Cassandra, since her confessions, recordings and thoughts in her journals gave me a thorough insight into her. I also loved how the sections of the book were arranged in differently priced notebooks, which really demonstrated the progression of the story It feels, reading it now, as if this is the story that every romantic comedy Hollywood has ever made has been trying to tell. And when we come towards the end of the book and a marriage proposal and happily-ever-after storyline seems to be in the offing, I was worried we were going to stray into that territory. But Smith is too good a writer, Cassandra too interesting a person to settle for this. Ist enthalten inBearbeitet/umgesetzt in
Rez.: Ein Roman in Tagebuchform (erschienen 1949) von der Erfolgsautorin der "101 Dalmatiner": Cassie ist 17 und lebt mit der Familie auf einem alten verfallenen Schloss in der Umgebung von London. Sie schildert ihr armseliges Leben (Vater war Schriftsteller und kann nicht mehr schreiben, es gibt kein Geld im Haus) und das ihrer Schwester Rose, die unbedingt einen Mann finden möchte. Der Zufall führt 2 Amerikaner in die Gegend, Grund genug, dass romantische Verwicklungen beginnen. Ein dickleibiger und bittersü er Liebesroman in der Tradition der Jane Austen (allerdings etwas einfacher gestrickt), für lange Winterabende. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912 — Literature English {except North American} English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.11)
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