My thoughts on: Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre was my first read of 2014, because of the nature of the book, the few next arguments may seem all over the place and without a clear order, but just because I found particularly difficult to make up my mind about this book. Anyway, this is what I thought of it:

*I remember the first thing I noticed of the book was the writing style. In the first chapters or so, for me it was like a poetic reading in verse, which I really liked, and thought it was great.

*I admire Jane's bravery as a girl, I thought that it required a lot of bravery to be able to stand up to the people who were mistreated her, even though they were the only thing sure for her.

*One thing I noticed is that at first it really gave me a hard time, cause I fall kind in a reading slump while reading this. I was not making any progress and was reading so sloely this book, I think it took me almost two months. And it was not until chapter 25 or so, that I began to actually enjoy the book.

*I did not fall in love with Mr. Rochester, I felt -at first- he was so weird about his feelings, like he did really liked Miss Ingram, and I couldn't help feel like he was just messing around. I foundh him a little bit too confusing.

*Sometimes the reading was fast-paced, and then some others were really descriptive and even boring.

*Something I really liked was the way Jane planted herself and her terms and values. Her dignity above the situations, although it was interfering with her really deep feelings for Mr. Rochester. I also liked that she was not happy of changing her nature, her name or her looks.

*I thought Mrs. Fairfax represent the close-minded time of the 19th Century (in the sense that she was nt completely agreeing with Jane being with Mr. Rochester).

*I also liked that Jane wanted to earn her own money and be independent and worthy of the things she has, to be able to buy her own stuff. But I also appreciate that she prefered relations over money.

* Jane is certainly not as any other woman, she defiaced customs and the way the women were at that time.

*The book has surprised me a couple of times, in the sense that I did not expected to happen, which was great.

*Overall I gave this book 3.5 out of 5 stars in Goodreads.

My reading statistics: 2013

I know is March and is already too late to think about a year wrap-up, but I thought I needed to do this, so I made some graphics. Let's see how I did in terms of diversity in 2013:

*I read 23 books in 2013
*From those 23 books, I read:

Author's nationality	Number of books
Mexico	4
Argentina	3
Spain	2
Italy	1
US	6
Hungary	1
Germany	1
Great Britain	1
Brazil	1
France	1
Australia	1
South Corea	1

Author's gender	Number of books
Men	19
Women	4

Books' language	Number of books
Spanish	18
English	6

Even though I read a lot of authors from different parts of the world, it is quite obvious that my major influence the past year in terms of literature was from US authors, which I am not quite pleased with, I need more diversity. Also, without counting Australia I read 12 books of "Western authors" and 11 of authors from anywhere else. And to be honest, I am not doing any better this year, from the 5 books I had read so far, they all are US or British authors, so I have a little bit more than 9 months to change that, let's see if I make it.

In terms of gender, I am quite worried about, because I am not being equal enough, since 19 of the books I read were written by men and 4 by women. That is just terribly sad, and something I really need to start working on.

Finally, I read 18 books in Spanish and 6 books in English, this year though, I think I might be reading more in English.

I hope I can improve my reading statistics for this year, we'll find out next January.