Vanity in Villette

To be honest, I don't remember must of what happened this past week... It kind of went by like a blur. I remember taking a calculus test and that's about it. Who knows, maybe I'm losing my mind. But that's besides the point! Who wants to read about my possibly deteriorating mental state when you can read about Villette! (No, that was not sarcasm, smarty pants)

Ah Villette (the city I mean), what a beautiful place. So I last left off with how creepy Madame Beck is. Good news guys, she's still super creepy! Yay! She's actually really awesome though. She thinks rationally and is only trying to run a tight ship. speaking of the metaphorical ship, remember the girl Lucy met on the literal ship? She's baaaack! Ginevra Fanshawe is the most annoying, vain character in the book so far. She's one of those girls who believes she's all that and a box of chocolates and literally tells you: "Don't you wish you amazingly perfect like me? *annoying cute giggle*" And guess who's stupid enough to fall in love with her? The handsome gentleman who assisted Lucy, Dr. John. He's so infatuated with her that he doesn't even realize that she's just using him. At Madame Beck's birthday ball, Fanshawe was flirting between both him and some military officer whose name isn't that important. Lucy tells Dr. John that Fanshawe is just playing him, but he simply will not listen to her. My hope is that Fanshawe dumps him so he can move on to a worthier interest.

I know it's kind of lame to end my summary like this, but that's all I read! Now let's move on to some complaints. Yes, I surprisingly have complaints about a Romantic novel (not to be confused with romance novel people. There's a difference, look it up). The French dialogues annoy the living poop out of me. I CAN'T READ FRENCH. Therefore, I have no idea what they're saying. If it was just one word or two I'd go look it up, but it's not. It's literally full blown multiple sentences. So what I do is that I just skip over it until they're speaking English again. I figure that if it's in French it's probably not important.I guess Bronte wanted show off that she knew French or something. Oh well, I still like the book.

Okey dokey, so this week I'll try to remember what I did and read more. Maybe all I need is Thanksgiving break. Mm I can't wait to stuff my face with food... but I digress! Til then, happy reading kiddiewinkles!