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Completed	12 February 2006
Title	Rebecca
Author	Daphne du Maurier
Published	1938
Quote	"I seized advantage of his smile, I smiled too, and took his hands and kissed them. 'How absurd to say we are not companions,' I said. 'Why look how we sit here every evening, you with a book or a paper, and me with my knitting. Just like cups of tea. Just like old people, married for years and years. Of course we are companions. Of course we are happy. You talk as though you thought we had made a mistake? You don't mean it like that, do you, Maxim? You know our marriage is a success, a wonderful success?' "
Review	This is one of my all-time favorite books. I loved it. I love the descriptions and the storyline and the intrigue. If you can't possibly make it through the book, then treat yourself to the 1940 movie version of this book, starring the dapper Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine who, I recently discovered, is the younger sister of Olivia de Havilland (you know, Melanie from Gone with the Wind). I give this book two ebony wood knitting needles up. It's pure perfection.

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