#alison case

[rosestarchild]

and i'm thankful for every day that i'm given both the easy and hard ones i'm livin'

cynthia erivo as celie in the color purple's i'm here alison case as miss honey in matilda's my house

[booksthatwander]

This Week’s Book (#16)

Hey guys, this week I’m reading Nelly Dean, by Alison Case. 

It’s supposed to be a different take on Wuthering Heights. I loved AND hated reading that book, though it’s managed to make its way on to my favourites list. Probably because of the experience I got reading it! 

Has anyone else read Wuthering Heights? What do you think of it? 

Also I’m thinking of actually studying literature. Help. I don’t know whether I should or not. That or I’m thinking physics. I can’t make up my mind. 

[shadowtearling]

I saw this book at B&N today, and I want to read it especially after finishing Wuthering Heights. It's basically mostly about Nelly (as the title implies), but I wonder how different this story would be. I want to see what the author did/added to this story, especially considering the fact that majority of Wuthering Heights was narrated by Mrs. Dean herself. Has anyone read this? What did you think of it? Comparisons to its predecessor?

[pristinanomine]

You thought it was a simple thing: you asked for Heathcliff’s story, and I knew it and told it to you, same as I might have told you any current story about the doings of a neighbour here, or one of the tales of folk from the other world that we tell on dark nights. And if somewhere in the middle you’d grown weary and wanted to hear no more of it, why that would be that. Yet the story would be there with me, just the same, though untold. But the story wasn’t there until I told it to you. It wasn’t a story to tell, just a jumble of memories, like pictures in my mind […] See, that’s how it is when you tell a story. You can’t help changing things, seeing the future lying curled in the past like a half-grown chick in an egg. But it’s not so. Putting myself back there, looking at him then, Heathcliff’s face promised nothing, foreboded nothing, and I felt only sickness and horror looking on it, loving them both, in my own way, as I did, and powerless to stop them. In the midst of scenes like that, Mr Lockwood – and may God grant that you never learn the truth of this yourself – there are no stories, because there is no past and no future, only now. And afterwards, it seemed best to forget them, if I could. Until you asked about the folks at Wuthering Heights, and then I thought, ‘Maybe this is where you come in, Nelly Dean, after all.’

- Alison Case, Nelly Dean

[coollovebibliophilethings]

I Am Heathcliff curated by Kate Mosse

Definitely a collection worth reading... #IAmHeathcliff

Title: I Am Heathcliff Author: Kate Mosse, Louise Doughty, Grace McCleen, Nikesh Shukla, Erin Kelly, Joanna Cannon, Laurie Penny, Lisa McInerney, Juno Dawson, Hanan al-Shaykh, Alison Case, Louisa Young, Leila Aboulela, Anna James, Dorothy Koomson, Michael Stewart & Sophie Hannah In: I Am Heathcliff (Kate Mosse) Rating Out of 5: 3.5 (Liked this) Bookshelves: Contemporary, Short story collections, Twis…

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[the-final-sentence]

If I have presumed too much, let me offer my apologies for wasting your time with such a long letter as this has been.

Alison Case, from Nelly Dean

[lucyinthe--sky]

‘I saw that he had his own path that he would have to follow without me… And while I was not yet healed, I saw that I would heal.’

[gillarbuthnott]

Book Fest Blog #2: ... and the sun's still there - mostly.

Book Fest Blog #2: … and the sun’s still there – mostly.

The plastic ducks which grace the Charlotte Square puddles are feeling unloved this year, sitting disconsolately in a dry corner, awaiting their chance… I meant to blog before now, but I’ve hardly been home in the last few days. I’ve seen A L Kennedy (brilliant as always) Tracy Chevalier and Alison Case (fascinating) and been to Alison Case’s workshop on Wuthering Heights (excellent, and now I…

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