Sunday, August 5th, 2007...8:46 pm
done! with my first Austen
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Finished it! Not that book. This book.
And oh! what a charming read it was! While the beginnings first appeared somewhat wretched and tiresome, I shall state, without a hesitating manner, by the end! it had proved itself a verified page-turner! I could not avoid being deeply affected by its trials and tribulations therein. How sincerely I must rejoice! such a delightful melodrama full of irony, moral judgment and improprietous habits!
I shall now enjoy the engagement of observing that certain performance aired on the BBC which I have not long ago obtained from my dear! neighbors whose property, the ____tt estate, lies adjoining.
Oh, what felicity!
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11 Comments
August 5th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Oh, dear sweet Jesus. Take two Mickey Spillanes and call me in the morning.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:49 am
See, quality lit isn’t that bad.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:03 am
So what’s up next for your reading pleasure?
August 6th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I’ve found myself delving back into the classics I once read in high school more and more often.
They seem to mean more now than they did then, when I was still young and stupid and just didn’t “get it.” I get it now.
I suggest you pick up “Animal Farm” and “1984″ and read them with knowledge only years can bring. You will be surprised.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Nah, real lit isn’t bad at all. Especially when there’s a movie version!
Scott, I went to goodreads.com, too, and started trying to rate books. I did the same thing with Netflix a couple of years ago…..slightly time consuming!
I think I read Animal Farm, but, yeah, probably too young to really “get it.” I’ll have to check those out, Jenn.
Right now I have to read Madonnas of Leningrad for my book club. We just read 1001 White Women and really liked it.
But first, I have to read this week’s Entertainment Weekly!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I snagged the Entertainment Weekly as soon as it arrived, read it, put it on the bed and left the room.
The EW is actually in my hubby’s name, I just make sure I get it first. But this week…oh, disaster! The puppy pulled it off the bed and ATE IT! Hubs is not happy with me right now. Not at all. *Sigh*
August 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I wonder how Lindsay Lohan would fare as a Jane Austen character?
“She [Ms. Lohan] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.”
“I could easily forgive her pride, if she had not mortified mine.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“You appear to me, Ms. Lohan, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection.”
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil— a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
“And your defect is to hate everybody.”
“And yours,” she replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”
August 6th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
LiLo and Jane Austen?? I guess she might be the modern version of troubled girl who’d run off with lying soldier, soiling her virtue, with no underwear, much to the chagrin of her parents.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Underwear is overrated.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Lindsay Lohan as Lydia Bennett? Not a bad idea. Hehe. I wonder who could be Mr. Wickham.
Anyways, glad you enjoyed the book. Its one of my all-time faves. Love the movie too!
August 7th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hmmm, some devilish, slick-talking player dude….a young Brad Pitt? I don’t know!
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