http://things-she-read.org/2008/08/18/to-die-is-to-live/ reactions, reviews, revulsions... of the bookish kind Sat, 12 May 2012 22:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://things-she-read.org/2008/08/18/to-die-is-to-live/#comment-290 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:55:17 +0000 http://thingssheread.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-290 “remember, pregnancy and consumption always go hand-in-hand” Ha, so true. Girls who go astray must be punished by dying But despite the old cliché, I loved how sympathetically she portrayed Cicely. Valancy outright says that extramarital sex doesn’t make her a bad person, which is daring today in certain social groups, let alone then.

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