{"id":3647,"date":"2008-05-30T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Have to Change Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sometimes You Have to Change Directions<\/b><br \/>\nAnd, in this instance, I&#8217;m talking about books.  I&#8217;ve been on an Elizabeth Gaskell kick of late, reading <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/North-and-South\/Elizabeth-Gaskell\/e\/9780140434248\/?itm=2\"><i>North and South<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Wives-and-Daughters\/Elizabeth-Gaskell\/e\/9781593082574\/?itm=1\"><i>Wives and Daughters<\/i><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Cranford\/Elizabeth-Gaskell\/e\/9780141439884\/?itm=1\"><i>Cranford<\/i><\/a>.  I enjoyed them all very much and probably <i>North and South<\/i> most of all.  <\/p>\n<p>So, while waiting for other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Gaskell\">Gaskell<\/a> books to be ready at the library, I decided to read <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Life-of-Charlotte-Bronte\/Elizabeth-Gaskell\/e\/9781593083144\/?itm=11\"><i>The Life of Charlotte Bronte<\/i><\/a>.  Well, I have to say that it was definitely an interesting book.  I haven&#8217;t read enough biographies to really be able to critique Gaskell&#8217;s take on Bronte&#8217;s life.  They were, however, friends in real life and natives of the same northern area of England, which, I am sure, made Gaskell an excellent choice for a biographer.  <\/p>\n<p>What a life Charlotte Bronte led.  Tragedy after tragedy, nearly constant ill-health, depression &#8212; the list of trials in her life is very long.  And, yet, it was fascinating, too, to learn about her, about this era in England&#8217;s history, also to learn what she thought about other writers (including Austen!), and about the area of the country in which she lived.  It was fascinating and also more than a little depressing &#8212; which I will acknowledge that I don&#8217;t need right now.  So I&#8217;ve changed gears, so to speak, and have begun reading <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Essays-of-E-B-White\/E-B-White\/e\/9780060932237\/?itm=2\"><i>The Essays of E.B. White<\/i><\/a>.  So far, so good.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes You Have to Change Directions And, in this instance, I&#8217;m talking about books. I&#8217;ve been on an Elizabeth Gaskell kick of late, reading North and South, Wives and Daughters, and Cranford. I enjoyed them all very much and probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}