So I read 38 more pages last night. Got in bed at 10 - I was so proud of myself. I am now on chapter 14. It has taken me a while to get used to the writing style and vocabulary but I think I'm getting better at it. I have had to re-read several portions so my speed is much slower than usual.
I'm so glad you both thought of doing this. I have so many things to do that I rarely have time to read. It took me a couple of months to read Angels and Demons, even though I loved it. I like knowing that I have other readers to keep up with. It forces me to stop bustling around and pick up a book.
I thoroughly enjoy Jane Austen's humor, "...and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment. She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required."
"Elinor attempted no more. But Marianne, in her place, would not have done so little. The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love."
Rachel
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so many hilarious parts. Pride & Prejudice is funny too. I'm pretty excited about it (that's the next one we'll be reading by the way). You own a copy don't you?
Yeeeeeeeesh :) Mom gave me a small one in my stocking years ago. Which one did she give you? I got S&S at the library. So I'm sure I can get anything we're reading. Someday I'll buy them.
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