{"id":156269,"date":"2025-03-25T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-thoughts-about-a-classic\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:18:21","slug":"an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-thoughts-about-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=156269","title":{"rendered":"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Thoughts about a classic"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I\u2019ve always thought a good writer ought to be able to write about almost anything. It\u2019s a question of insight and observation. Research, too; although not so much the story drowns in too much detail.
<\/span>And then I read this book and I think it could only have been written by a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>(This is a comment in no way intended as any kind of a put-down. Not for so much as a millisecond. I really enjoyed the book, and my only regret is that it\u2019s taken me so many decades to getting around to reading it.)<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>It\u2019s just that the level of detail in the thoughts of the 17-year-old narrator \u2013 her reactions to the men who appear in her life; the meaning of a kiss; what clothes to wear and how to look; what to say and to whom\u2026 I\u2019m not sure any man could have described all this with such surgical precision and insight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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One other aspect that interests me: It\u2019s currently being released as part of a Vintage Classics series that also contains\u00a0The Wind in the Willows<\/i>;\u00a0The Secret Garden<\/i>;\u00a0Emil and the Detectives<\/i>;\u00a0The Wolves of Willoughby Chase<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Silver Sword<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>I\u2019d classify all of the above as children\u2019s classics. No question. But does\u00a0I Capture the Castle<\/i>\u00a0belong with them? Is it really a children\u2019s book, a book for\u00a0young<\/i>\u00a0readers? I\u2019d have said you\u2019d have to be at least the age of the narrator to get anything out of it, and that anyone younger would just be bored by all the talk of looks and glances, stolen kisses and the right dresses and who should really be marrying who.<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>No argument about it being a classic, though.<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span>None at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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