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RE: Book review: Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Would you laugh at me if I tell you I read Wuthering Heights because of Bella?😂
And now I might read Villette or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall because of you 😉 (as soon as I make up my mind)
This post of yours was a good read and beautifully written, no wonder it got Curied (congratulations by the way)
Thank you very much for the sincere compliment. I am very grateful to @curie for their sterling work.
Haha, no, not at all! To be honest, Bella is a source of inspiration to me too. Every time I wear my favourite brown top I think of the part where she explains why brown is her favourite colour. I sometimes wonder whether I'd feel differently about Wuthering Heights if I had read Twilight first. Glad if I could inspire you in some small way too.
interesting 😊 well then nice to meet you: real-life version of Bella 😉
So what do you suggest, should I start with Villette or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?
As with any book choice, I think it depends what you're in the mood for. Wildfell Hall is definitely more dramatic. The scenes are more varied, more stuff happens and the focus is concentrated mostly outwards. As I wrote here, Villette is very much an inner journey and contains a lot of angst and longing. Wildfell is still my favourite so the biased me would say to go for that. :) If you want to go for Charlotte, actually, her other novel The Professor might be a good halfway point. The themes are similar but it's much shorter and a little bit lighter.