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I Capture the Castle
 

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  coming of age,  england,  young adult,  british (all tags)

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Bodrugan
  • Rated 5 stars

“One Saturday morning when I was in the eighth grade, I was perusing the shelves of my town's library. Rounding a stack, I ran into my English teacher and her daughter who was my age.

Mrs. B greeted me and asked, "What kind of book are you looking for today?" I told her that I wanted to read something wonderful, something that I had never read before.

She thought a minute, "Have you read I Capture the Castle?"

I shook my head no, but the word...”

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  • Rated 4.135827 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Eileen Y

    eileen y said:

    “It does start out a little slow, though. But that's probably for the drawing out of the characters' personalities...”

    posted 7 days ago
  • Selina C

    selina c said:

    “Funny story about how I came to read this book..I had an on-off relationship with a guy who told me he'd seen the movie and said one of the characters reminded him of me. So I rented the movie. (no lightbulbs flashing yet)
    It wasn't till later that I saw this book in the library and read it - it was wonderful! And yes I am embarassed to admit I was was rather like Cassandra in the book.
    One of my favourites. The characterisation and humour is brilliant.”

    posted Sunday, June 1 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton said:

    “jet, that's one of the best things about Shelfari, isn't it? I enjoyed this book quite a lot.”

    posted Tuesday, August 7 2007
  • JET

    jet said:

    “This was the first book that I got due to shelfari. I kept seeing it on other people's shelves that I had a lot of books in common with so it got me interested. I'm glad I picked it up, it's has a great style to it.”

    posted Tuesday, August 7 2007
  • cookiegirl

    cookiegirl said:

    “Megalngelic--this is your friend speaking. This rating was a stupid mistake! Go ahead and watch it, and just be prepared to see Topaz flash the elements. :) I have a war to wage with the ratings people on this one, as you can tell . . .”

    posted Tuesday, May 15 2007
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