Morning all!
I've just finished reading the complete works of Jane Austen- back to front. As in I started with her last publish book and finished with her first. No idea why I did it that way, I just felt like it.
I've read Pride and Prejudice about 10 times since I first picked it up as a teenager, but the other books I'd only read the once so I really enjoyed going back to them. I was surprised by how easy to read they are- I remember finding them much more difficult when I was 13/14, whereas this time around I was breezing through them in 1-3 days.
My favourite is still Persuasion, there is just something about Anne Elliot that I love and Frederick Wentworth is I think my favourite JA hero. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Northhanger Abbey though- I think I was too young to appreciate all the humour in it the first time round! Henry Tilney has hopped a few places up my list of JA heroes :)
My least favourite was probably Sense and Sensibility, if only because I cannot stand Edward and Elinor's commitment to him really irritates me- but that's just my opinion.
I'm reading Jane Eyre again now, and the contrast between Bronte and Austen is rather marked- there is really just something about JA that I love. She has such a light touch :)
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It's that letter... that letter makes me want to lay in the floor each time I read it. I love it.. my least favorite is Emma, and I still wish Henry Crawford could've held it together for Fanny, cause I found Edmund an indifferent lover.
ReplyDeleteI feel like Bronte is a lot more emotive than Austen, more melodramatic, but she stole some serious inspiration from Jane, Mr. River's sisters scream Eleanor/Marianne to me...
I didn't like Edmund the first time I read MP, but this time around I found I could be more forgiving.
ReplyDeleteI agree Bronte is by far more melodramatic than JA, much more passionate etc and Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books- it is just a strange transition from one style to the other :)