"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
-- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Although I've watched the movie several times and own two or three copies of the book, I have never read this. One of my New Year's book resolutions was to finally get to it. For one thing, it will bring me that much closer to finishing the books on the Radcliffe Top 100 list.
I am about a third of the way through it and admit that, so far, my only reaction is to want to slap some sense into this little unnamed ninny of a heroine. She goes around afraid of her own shadow -- not to mention waiters, the housekeeper, her sister-in-law, and pretty much any one she encounters. It's a good thing she hasn't come across a goose, because she wouldn't be able to say "boo."
I must have had more sympathy for her when I watched the movie as a teenager.
