Though not really my thing, it's interesting and original and not unenjoyable.

Would I have liked it more if I read Bronte first?

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

6/10

#widesargassosea #JeanRhys #BritishLiterature #bookstodon

Listening to #WideSargassoSea by #JeanRhys.

So well done.

And I'm cooked after 10 munutes.
So v e r y despair inducing for me.

(Written 1966 as a prequel to #JaneAyre - the back story of the mad woman in the attic. Small liberties taken with actual historical chronology.)

Classified as #PostColonialLiterature.
And I see just about every human on the planet is living a post-colonial life.

Yet the Xia dynasty, the Greeks, Romans, etc have had postcolonialism around for millenia.

Trying to find audiobooks by #JeanRhys is frustrating.

#Audible has nothing, nada, zilch.
Librivox "No results found".
Next trying YT.

EDIT: YT has The Wide Sargasso Sea - a post-colonial response (prequel around #EdwardFairfaxRochester) to #JaneEyre.
Performed well, with accents. Produced by Isis Audio - probably 2007, performance by #AnnaBentinck.

But only a radioplay of #GoodMorningMidnight was found.

#Bookstadon #Accessibility #TheWideSargassoSea #Audiobook #PosrColonial

Fun things about studying up on #JeanRhys is that there have been theses for Masters and PhDs written and published on the web.

#ItsHowTheLightGetsIn
Some of them are dreadfully written.
And, here's the lovely bit, after giving up on one after 5 pages, I find I have learnt a lot about where Rhys fitted in to "Literature" in the 1920s and 30s and where she fits in now.
All while I complained about the writing style of the student. 🙃

Whereas "good" writing would have been boring & opaque. 🤫

Looking for an #Audiobook of #JeanRhys' #GoodMorningMidnight.

Anyone know of one?

Maybe in a collection of short stories?

(That'd be a human reader, non-"AI enhanced" audio.)

#Audible (at least in Australia) shows nothing by Jean Rhys. (Just a biography of her.)
Nothing, on G, (but then that's been crapified).
#Bookstadon

Who knows why the book was chosen?
Not I.

But #GoodMorningMidnight immediately after #BoySwallowsUniverse is ... a jarring experience.

Gone is the criminally violent melodrama. And positivity.
In is something that each member of the venerable club has lived beside. Or lived out. For decades.

#Bookclub #Bookstadon #JeanRhys

#JeanRhys
#GoodMorningMidnight

Only seen snippets of reviews so far.
And some photos.

You're going to take this the wrong, wrong way I'm guessing.
But I've got a really bad feeling about this book.

Not oversharing, not too honest, more "spot on target" to a central delicate issue or two.

Maybe something that hasn't really been "solved".

#Bookstadon #OldWoman #Aging #Personhood #SocialBeings

A brief encounter between James and Nora Joyce and Jean Rhys, reported by Brenda Maddox: https://stancarey.tumblr.com/post/99403430383/james-and-nora-joyce-and-jean-rhys

#books #JeanRhys #JamesJoyce #NoraBarnacle #BrendaMaddox #LiteraryHistory