First LoT book club discussion: Madame Bovary

[SacTown Chronic]

I enjoyed the book. I think a big reason for that is that I've known two women who are so like Emma it's scary. It was good fun reading as the self-made web around Emma tightened. I didn't have much sympathy for Charles as I couldn't shake the idea that a chump as clueless as him couldn't possibly exist in the real world.

(I had hope for a brief moment -- when it seemed that he might be intentionally tormenting Emma with the apricots that Randolphe had sent over with the goodbye letter -- that Charles was more cunning than I was giving him credit for. Nope.)