Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Jane Eyre Movie Trailer Official (HD)

I haven't read any reviews on this movie.  Does anyone know enough about it to recommend it? I'm hoping it's going to be really good!

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  1. BeccaFebruary 23, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    Oh, I'm so excited to see this movie! Jane Eyre is by far my favorite book from that era, it always has been.

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  2. Tori EatonFebruary 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    My friend chose Jane Eyre for our neighborhood book club about 5 years ago. It was June and life was crazy, but I purchased a copy. Determined, I struggled reading during baseball practices, violin lessons, vacation, etc. Through the month I was surprised when other people were passing copies around to each other.. 3 or 4 people got through the book in about a week. I finally finished about 30 minutes before the book club. Exasperated, I ran in the door of my friend's house and threw my book onto her coffee table... where it landed neatly next to her ABRIDGED copy that she had been passing around to everyone. Only two of us read the full version- me and another girl who was finishing the book while she was in the hospital delivering a baby!

    I just thought I'd share that as I can't think of Jane Eyre without thinking of that story. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. I will not be attempting the book again. It was enjoyable, but I just can't imagine re-reading it right now. Looking forward to the movie!

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  3. AdrienneMarch 9, 2011 at 11:27 PM

    Commenting on our reads is very intimidating for me so before I go off on any of the recent books I thought I would share some fun facts with you that you may or may not have known about Grandma. Many of you seemed to like that before so here I go again:

    Did you know that Grandma's parents' first baby was actually a boy and sadly it was stillborn? If he had lived they would have had 4 girls and 4 boys.

    Did you know that the house she grew up in in Eagar had 3 bedrooms - one for the parents, one for the girls and one for the boys? It also only had ONE bathroom that was basically the hallway of the house. She said that her Dad somehow enclosed the toilet area for some privacy but things could still be heard if you know what I mean. - When family or friends came to visit I can't imagine how crowded or crazy that must've been!!!

    Grandma's mother always cooked on a wood burning stove. Their big meals were at lunchtime which they called dinner and usually consisted of homemade bread with some kind of homegrown and canned vegetable with cream sauce. Dinner or Supper was generally bread and milk, etc. Her Mom would often make pies (usually 7 or more) on Sunday and the one that she mentioned that her Dad liked, that surprised me, was an applesauce pie...I would love to know how to make that and what it was like. Grandma told me that they had bread with almost every meal and that often in the mornings they had homemade hot chocolate and toast which reminds me of the many times I had hot chocolate and toast at her house. I also remember her telling me once that she didn't like oatmeal which was often served for breakfast. Her mother knew this and would somehow let Grandma eat something else without her siblings knowing.

    You all probably know this story - Grandma has told me this on many different occasions and it is also included in her history, but it is a story worth sharing. She says that she was very young but remembers playing outside her home with her siblings and her mother watching as they waited for their Dad to come home for lunch. She remembers her Dad coming in his white carpenter overalls hugging her Mom and saying something like "what more could a man wish for..." - This experience obviously made a lasting impression on her.

    Something that really threw me for a loop this last visit was finding out that her mom, Rachel Butler Ashcroft, actually dated Grandpa Wendell's dad, Charles W. Crosby!!! There is even a picture of them together before either of them got married to Paris Ashcroft and Ida Miles respectively. CRAZY HUH?!

    I think there are more fun little facts that I've gathered, but I've written enough already...

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  4. AdrienneMarch 9, 2011 at 11:28 PM

    Adrienne's commenting continued...

    As for the Actor and the Housewife. I enjoyed it but it was not one of my favorites. I, like Rachel, cried like a baby when her husband dies. It made me think of losing my husband and that was emotional. I have to admit that I couldn't imagine anyone actually talking and joking like the main characters did, but maybe that is because I'm not quick witted or even good at conversation myself. Although I also felt it was a little predictable I was actually surprised by the ending and have to admit that half of me hoped they would become romantic and marry and half of me was repulsed by the idea since it seemed like she would be unfaithful.... I don't agree with having a friend of the opposite sex when you're married.

    Now concerning Jane Eyre, sigh.... she is my heroine!!! I am tempted to say that this might be my favorite book. I read it a few years ago when I decided to read some of the classics and loved it then and loved it even more this time around. It is late though and I should go to bed. There are so many incredible passages and quotes - perhaps I will pick some of my favorite and share them at a later date. One of the things I love about her writing style is that she is talking to the reader and addresses you many times throughout the novel which I love. I look forward to the new movie too although I find it hard to believe that it will be better than the A&E version of it.

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  5. Grandma and Grandpa CrosbyMarch 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    RE. GRANDMA MARY: Adrienne visits grandma every week. That puts her in a wonderful position to find out things about grandma that we might not ever know otherwise. Thanks Adrienne for sharing these fun facts.

    RE. JANE EYRE: I still haven't finished my reading of Jane Eyre (Tori, if I had known there was a condensed version I would have read that, I'm SO slow).......but I'm getting there, and loving it!

    Loved Julie's comment back on the Valentine's Day post, be sure to check it out, and also loved the above comments from Tori and Adrienne! But if Adrienne is going to share some of her favorite quotes soon, then I want to beat her to the punch with my MOST favorite quote. (Sorry Adrienne.)

    "'Oh comply!' it said, 'Think of his misery, think of his danger--look at his state when left alone...Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?'...Still indomitable was the reply--'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God, sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad--as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour, stringent are they; inviolate they shall be...with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot!"

    It kind of reminds me of Jean Val Jean in Les Mis when he sang "Who Am I? I'm Jean Val Jean!" I love it when fine literature inspires us with virtuous characters who do what is right no matter the cost!

    NEXT READ: "The Five Thousand Year Leap" by Cleon Skousen. I'd like to have through April to read it, but how do the rest of you feel?

    After that we'll read "Cotillion" by Georgette Hyer

    Aunt Louise

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