Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary

I didn't love this book. I liked it but I didn't love it. It was like a spicy Jane Austen set in France. Pry not one I'll be reading again, but it wasn't horrible.

Despite my obsession with the classics, this is the first time I've read this book. Overall, it is a well-written, interesting story, although I find Emma to be insufferable. I understand that she is a repressed woman of her time, but that does not excuse her behavior--her husband loved her and did all he could to make her comfortable and happy, his only crime was being boring (in her eyes.) Not to mention the fact that she was a terrible mom (when she pushed Berthe--omg!) I would still recommend reading this book, it's a good story and really illustrates the atmosphere of provincial French middle class life, but Emma is, in my opinion, an insufferable main character. But that's also part of what makes the story interesting!

I didn't think much of the book after, but then a day or two later it really struck me. I really like how Madame Bovary is not just a tragic figure, not one to pity. She can be sympathetic, so lost and impacted by the world around her. Seen and unseen. Madame Bovary, c'est moi!

The drama! Let this be a lesson to all you ladies who read too many romance novels, indulge in the latest fashion trends, live beyond their means, and don’t attend to their feminine duties- lest they befall the same fate! No but forreal, this holds up to modern trash dramas and I am lovin’ it

Charles is husband material.