I have read up to page 150 of Suite Française.
My favourite parts since the last update are:
Page 78: "soft June wind"
I simply like this because I think it sounds really nice - the syllables just seem to compliment each other into a beautiful poetic phrase. Never mind that it's in the middle of a war.
Page 136: "They felt a terrible kind of joy."
I like this (it's better with the context) because of the oxymoron. How can you have terrible joy? But the characters do. They are frenzied, murderous, sub-human. They kill their own priest! It also seems to relate to what the feeling of rare joy must have felt like during such an awful time as war. Any happiness that you have you know is short lived, and lives among the horror of what is happening around you, even if you can't actually see it.
An entire chapter dedicated to the cat.
This isn't particularly technically challenging, and won't help me when it comes to GCSE English Language exams, but I really like that there is a chapter entirely dedicated to the cat. It's quite cool.
Meg x
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