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SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I Capture the Castle ~ Dodie Smith

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Mercedes
I really enjoyed this book. It had been sitting on my To-Read shelf for quite some time and I finally started it. I love old books that are "contemporary" like Jane Austen and Edith Wharton. You learn so much more about the culture and time and how the people living then felt about it. Fascinating. My only problem with this book is that about 3/4 of the way through, it seemed to stall and it felt like forever to push through, mostly because the teenage main character was dealing with being love sick which I have little sympathy for. But once I got nearer to the end, the action picked up again and the book finished well.

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