Better late than never…
Wow.
Talk about late. My poor site has been neglected.
The holidays have come and gone, and I’m now 23 (scary thought).I also got several new books that I really want to read. If you can’t tell, I love books. The best gift anyone can get me is a book — I love buying and collecting them. I also love the smell of old books, libraries, and book stores.
So thanks to my wonderful friend Katie and a couple of gift cards, I’ve picked up The Sea of Monsters, the second Percy Jackson book by Rick Riordan, along with Graceling by Kristen Cashore, The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, and City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I have Jane Eyre, too. I also picked up the ultimate in Chick Lit: Jane Austen.
I love Jane Austen, but my affection for her work is fairly recent. I worked my way through Pride and Prejudice in seventh grade, and fell in love with it, but I never picked up anything else. I had an elective to blow my senior year of college, so I decided to take a Jane Austen and Ann Radcliffe class. After suffering through The Mysteries of Udolpho (unless you enjoy inflicting literary torture on yourself, I’d skip it and try Romance of the Forest or The Italian), we finally started on Austen’s works.
If you haven’t read Pride and Prejudice, or Sense and Sensibility, or Emma, you should. They’ve got all the sappy romance you can expect out of an early 19th century British novel and plenty of cattiness.
But now for something fun! I hereby present to you the Jane Austen Fight Club:
