Book #15 - Persuasion
Sep. 13th, 2007 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janetlinSee, I really did pick it up instead of playing WoW or watching Battlestar. Yes, that odd light above my head is a halo.
Anyway, yes. I think I must have read Pride and Prejudice in high school, but it was long enough ago that reading Persuasion was almost like being introduced to Austen for the first time. I didn't find her language that difficult, and I liked the main character, Anne, very much. And goodness, there's a love letter at the end that just made me go, "zomg, I want one!" This was Austen's last novel, and all the maturity and skill of her too-short life are brought to bear here. This is Good Stuff.
Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Pages: 243 (paperback)
... and I realize that perhaps I have miscalculated in the shipping dates for my textbooks, as the next book I need to start reading is Jane Eyre, and it isn't here yet. Grr. Library time, I suppose.
Anyway, yes. I think I must have read Pride and Prejudice in high school, but it was long enough ago that reading Persuasion was almost like being introduced to Austen for the first time. I didn't find her language that difficult, and I liked the main character, Anne, very much. And goodness, there's a love letter at the end that just made me go, "zomg, I want one!" This was Austen's last novel, and all the maturity and skill of her too-short life are brought to bear here. This is Good Stuff.
Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Pages: 243 (paperback)
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15 / 50 (30.0%) |
... and I realize that perhaps I have miscalculated in the shipping dates for my textbooks, as the next book I need to start reading is Jane Eyre, and it isn't here yet. Grr. Library time, I suppose.
