Ok, so this book is really confusing. Anna Pavlovna Scherer, what I gather as a main character, is talking to the prince of France (I think of France), and then she's at a party. She has an old aunt, who is boring as heck, who talks of nothing but health. Her health, the person she's talking to's health, and the Queen health, "who thank God is better today." This book jumps around like a two-year-old with 15 pounds of sugar. I can't keep up, I'm so confused, and I'm only on, like, the 12th page. It's so bizzarr!!!!
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Im sorry your so confused. I have to say I probably would be to, just by reading the title. War and Peace? hmm... is that an oxymoron?
Talking about other people's health always reminds me of My Fair Lady when Higgins tells Eliza that she can only speak of the weather and other people's health. I love that book. I suggest reading that one even if you didn't really like the musical.
I was in the kind of in the musical and i cand like say every line from it no joke and i even got to the point where i would start to talk like eliza
I think it is an oxymoron. Anna was mad at the Prince because he kept they weren't at war, when they really are. Or, at least, I think that's what she was talking about. The book started out with her yelling at him. OH!! Anna said she was going to try and get this princess from another country to marry one of the Prince's sons, and then the next paragraph the princess was married and pregnant. That's what I mean when I say it jumps around a lot. I don't know if I'm getting characters mixed up, or if she was married and now she's not, I'm so confused!!!!!
I LOVE My Fair Lady!!!!!
I've had that problem before. I thought I knew what was going on in the book and then all of a sudden it changed on me and I didn't know what was going on. It's like literature schizophrenia and reader oblivion.
Just keep reading I am sure that it will get better.
"If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you." I laugh at that line every time. :]
Definitely lit. schizophrenia and reader oblivion doesn't even begin to describe how lost I am. I'm like stuck on Pluto and this book is looking for me on the burning ball of gas we call the sun.
I hope it gets better. I'm kinda starting to worry about the whole 100 pages a week thing. I lied, I thought I was on page 12, turns out, I'm only on page 9, and that's after reading a little AFTER school.
I'm assuming that line is from this book? Or am I missing something that is from another post?
the quote cavalierschick gave was from my fair lady
That quote is straight from the movie and broadway play. I'm not sure if it's the same in the book, but I'm sure it is. I absolutely love that line and, "No, Eliza, you didn't "sy" that, you didn't even "say" that. Now every night before you get into bed, where you used to say your prayers, I want you to say "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" fifty times. You'll get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend His ears."
Haha, now I remember. Wow, I am more forgetful than I thought.
You're on Pluto? No. It's a non-planet* not able to be habitated by men. I believe the freezing temperatures have got you by now.
Ugh!!!! I HATE cold. But all I meant was to say how far away I am from this book.
why would your mom think you were crazy because of your paper? I'm very intised to read it now. :]
Because, in it, I say she is my concicence, but I phrase it as, "she is the voice in my head." She found that funny and said she was worried about me.
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