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KAOI am already enjoying this! The description of 4:30 teatime in the narrator‘s memories is perfect—especially to someone like me who cherishes teatime!4w
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BarkingMadRead@KAO I was all ready to post a pic of teatime until she mentioned Mrs Van Hopper 🤣4w
IndoorDameMrs. Van Hopper is amazing! You can picture her so vividly from the very first page she‘s introduced!4w
RuthiellaMrs. Van Hopper is wonderfully awful! 😂 And who hasn‘t met someone like that before.4w
5feet.of.furyopenly staring with the lorgnette 🧐 I love all the little details that set to scene4w
dabbeFor much of the first two chapters, Manderley seems to be the main character. And even though the narrator and her husband seem happy as they travel from hotel to hotel, some tragedy broods underneath. It's interesting, too, how Manderley even has a name, but the narrator chooses not to name herself.4w
peanutnine@dabbe I was wondering if we were going to get her name or not, definitely an interesting choice not to reveal it4w
BookwormjillkMrs Van Hopper is like someone out of Austen4w
TheAromaofBooksI love how the narrator uses Mrs. VH to contrast to herself - by learning more about Mrs. VH we also learn more about the narrator herself.4w
dabbe@peanutnine Well, at least now she doesn't. You know, though, it makes sense so far because she hasn't had any dialogue yet. She's been describing everything and everyone involved in the flashback that's going to be the book.4w
peanutnine@dabbe that's true. No one has actually addressed her yet. It reads like a diary so far, I'm getting Tenant of Wildfell Hall vibes4w
Crinoline_LaphroaigThis is what's draws me in: "I think of half past four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. The door flung open, punctual to the minute, and the performance, never varying, of the laying of the tea, the silver tray, the kettle, the snowy cloth." I sooo love a good tea scene. ?4w
BarkingMadRead@rubyslippersreads 🤣 I just used an Armie pic for today‘s chapter 🤣 he is yummy. But I will avoid that version, thanks for the heads up!4w
Roary47I also found it interesting that we learn a little of our narrator by the contrast like@TheAromaofBooks mentioned.4w
ElizaMarieI want tea! (Ha!) So I am late to the comments, catching up today. But I kinda like being late, so I can read everything people have already said!4w
That's a great pic of Mrs VH -- from the movie? 4w