Asylum
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Journal Entry 2 by Molyneux at Oxford Retreat in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Monday, March 16, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (3/25/2009 UTC) at Oxford Retreat in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
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To be released at the BookCrossing meetup on Thurs March 26th at the Oxford Retreat from 7pm - everyone is welcome, just look for the table with the books!
If this is your introduction to Bookcrossing, welcome. Please make as few or as many comments about the book as you wish. The book is now yours to do with as you choose. Keep it, pass it on, but please leave the label, so it can keep in touch with us. If you would like to know what happens to the book after you have passed it on, then do join - it's free, private and it's fun!
And if you do choose to join, I hope you'll consider using me molyneux, as your referring member.
To be released at the BookCrossing meetup on Thurs March 26th at the Oxford Retreat from 7pm - everyone is welcome, just look for the table with the books!
If this is your introduction to Bookcrossing, welcome. Please make as few or as many comments about the book as you wish. The book is now yours to do with as you choose. Keep it, pass it on, but please leave the label, so it can keep in touch with us. If you would like to know what happens to the book after you have passed it on, then do join - it's free, private and it's fun!
And if you do choose to join, I hope you'll consider using me molyneux, as your referring member.
Journal Entry 3 by darkhorse4460 from Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Saturday, March 28, 2009
Snaffled at bookcrossing meetup at The Retreat on Thursday. Highly recommended by isisjem. Thanks Molyneux!
Journal Entry 4 by darkhorse4460 from Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This is the story of the fall of Stella, attractive, intelligent, lonely and unfulfilled, the wife of the Deputy Superintendent of an institution for the Criminally Insane. It charts her catastrophic love affair with a male patient and the subsequent tragic consequences for herself her family and everyone around her.
The narrator is a colleague of Stella’s husband, a psychiatrist who treats both her and her lover Edgar.
From the beginning I felt great sympathy for Stella and felt discomfort that her story was being told for her by a male doctor, who at first seems objective and detatched, but clearly has his own interests and obsessions at heart.
The author is very clever in his use of this unreliable narrator, allowing the reader to see though to what might really be happening to this woman in a world and an institution where the attitude to women and mental illness doesn’t seem so very far from the Victorian (its set in 1959).
A haunting and disturbing novel, dark subject matter, very beautifully done.
The narrator is a colleague of Stella’s husband, a psychiatrist who treats both her and her lover Edgar.
From the beginning I felt great sympathy for Stella and felt discomfort that her story was being told for her by a male doctor, who at first seems objective and detatched, but clearly has his own interests and obsessions at heart.
The author is very clever in his use of this unreliable narrator, allowing the reader to see though to what might really be happening to this woman in a world and an institution where the attitude to women and mental illness doesn’t seem so very far from the Victorian (its set in 1959).
A haunting and disturbing novel, dark subject matter, very beautifully done.
Journal Entry 5 by darkhorse4460 at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (10/20/2009 UTC) at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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On its way to raeliz64 as a trade.
On its way to raeliz64 as a trade.
Journal Entry 6 by raeliz64 from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Friday, October 23, 2009
Received yesterday. Thanks very much :-)
This is a very dark and gloomy tale. Compelling though and beautifully written.
Going in to Soffita1's Film Theme bookbox.
taken from the film bookbox
This finally made it to the top of my reading pile and I really struggled with it but it was a hectic week, I will give it another go and hope that I get further with it, if I don't I will move it on.
