Last Christmas my husband gave me a palm pilot, which was not something I'd even thought about, but I absolutely love it and it turns out it was the perfect gift for me! I've been able to organise myself a lot more since I've had it, and I love being able to have my calendar, scriptures, shopping lists, to do lists, etc, etc, all in one convenient portable location! LOVE it! The reason I bring this up though is that recently I bought an Ultimate Classic Library for my palm pilot, and I have been thoroughly enjoying it! It is just wonderful! Right now I do most of my reading while I am nursing my son, and one of the great things about having my books on my palm pilot is that I can read it without distracting him - if I try to hold a book and turn pages while I'm feeding him, he is constantly trying to roll over and see what I'm doing, and he doesn't eat very well at all. But he doesn't even notice if I'm holding my palm pilot, so I can read and he can eat uninterrupted :) Lovely! But you really should check out this collection if you have a palm pilot, because although I have come across a few typos, it is GREAT! There are so many books on there that I am looking forward to reading! I have reading material for years!! There are so many books that I've always wanted to read but never got around to it, as well as books that I've never heard of, and even some that I'll probably never want to read. Like James Fenimore Cooper...I tried to read Last of the Mohicans once upon a time, and didn't get very far because it was just all footnotes and sidenotes - didn't enjoy it at all. Ugh. Of course, that was about 10 years ago - maybe I would enjoy it a little more now, I don't know.
Anyway, I just finished reading An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde this morning. I had never read it before, but I have read a couple of other things by Oscar Wilde, and I loved the Rupert Everett film, so I thought I'd give it a go.
I've read a few classic English books recently (Austen, Bronte, Gaskell), and I find it quite fascinating to read about society back then - what was different, what has remained the same - especially the position of women. In this book Lady Markby had some entertaining/interesting things to say on the subject of a woman's place in society.
LADY MARKBY: I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Hahaha!
LORD CAVERSHAM: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Also, when Gertrude finds out about the letter, she is heartbroken and tells Robert how he had been perfection in her eyes, and his response is to tell her that that's the problem with women, they put men on pedestals (which is funny actually because he lashes out with this instead of any kind of apology or explanation!), but then he is guilty himself of the same "sin"!
LADY CHILTERN: You were to me something apart from common life, a thing pure, noble, honest, without stain...
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: There was you mistake....Why can't you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on montrous pedestals?....when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason.
Then later on....
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: ...Gertude, Gertrude, you are to me the white image of all good things, and sin can never touch you.
Anyway, I just finished reading An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde this morning. I had never read it before, but I have read a couple of other things by Oscar Wilde, and I loved the Rupert Everett film, so I thought I'd give it a go.
I've read a few classic English books recently (Austen, Bronte, Gaskell), and I find it quite fascinating to read about society back then - what was different, what has remained the same - especially the position of women. In this book Lady Markby had some entertaining/interesting things to say on the subject of a woman's place in society.
LADY MARKBY: I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Hahaha!
LORD CAVERSHAM: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Also, when Gertrude finds out about the letter, she is heartbroken and tells Robert how he had been perfection in her eyes, and his response is to tell her that that's the problem with women, they put men on pedestals (which is funny actually because he lashes out with this instead of any kind of apology or explanation!), but then he is guilty himself of the same "sin"!
LADY CHILTERN: You were to me something apart from common life, a thing pure, noble, honest, without stain...
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: There was you mistake....Why can't you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on montrous pedestals?....when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason.
Then later on....
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: ...Gertude, Gertrude, you are to me the white image of all good things, and sin can never touch you.
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