Reading Update

[lunabee34]

Spinster by the Sea by Carol Hebald

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This did not do it for me at all. The poems from the perspective of Biblical figures were okay, but the rest of the poems did not move me.



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Charlotte Temple / Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I think it's easy for a modern reader to dismiss and be turned off by the melodramatic moralizing of 18th-century stories like these; however, the message here is a sound one given the social mores of the time. Don't run off with guys you don't know who might not actually follow through on their promises to marry you! Being an abandoned, ruined woman sucks given the prejudices of the time and the lack of an adequate social safety net!



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[china_shop]

Don't run off with guys you don't know who might not actually follow through on their promises to marry you! Being an abandoned, ruined woman sucks given the prejudices of the time and the lack of an adequate social safety net!

Yes! This came up when Andrew and I were watching [redacted] last night. Just because we believe we have the answers to how to live a good and meaningful life, doesn't mean those answers are universally applicable!

*hearts*

[lunabee34]

Nods nods

So important and true.

<3