Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I Capture the Castle


GR summary:
Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.

I read this for my 2016 Topic Discard Challenge, a book published during a random year. This whole book was just "meh" for me; neither good nor bad. I honestly do not remember a whole lot about the book as a whole or about the individual characters. It wasn't painful to read, it just did not stick with me in any way.

3/5 .... Maybe this is too generous?

This is on my list for the book recommended by one of my favorite authors (I don't even remember which author, however). I totally understand reading a book and then not remembering anything about it a few days later! Hopefully I won't also feel that way about this book.

Underwhelmed by this one, but I think it might appeal more to a younger audience.

Read it last week Underwhelmed also. Couldn't get into it. Also a lot of references to things British from a long time ago, which I don't understand. I can do modern British, but 1/3 of the book was over my head that way. Can't say I like it or disliked it.

Exactly, Ann. Left me feeling rather nothing either way.