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Short, easy Austen read. Good intro to Jane Austen's writing style: witty and romantic.
favorite quotes:
Chapter 4
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Chapter 5
The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm, and they passed so rapidly through every gradation of increasing tenderness that there was shortly no fresh proof of it to be given to their friends or themselves. They called each other by their Ch ...more
favorite quotes:
Chapter 4
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Chapter 5
The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm, and they passed so rapidly through every gradation of increasing tenderness that there was shortly no fresh proof of it to be given to their friends or themselves. They called each other by their Ch ...more
Everyone comes into Jane Austen with their own preconceptions and, having stayed away from her since that C+ I received on my Emma paper at 19, I am grateful to the Bronx librarian who chose Northanger Abbey for his February 2020 book club selection. She is funny. To steal a movie title, her characters are wonderfully clueless in their understanding of the world, at first, as they lurch toward the match one longs for them to make. As for the lesser characters, all one needs is the occasional ant
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I really enjoyed this book! I have been struggling my way through Emma for months, but this one was short, cute, and entertaining. It reminded me of being a teenager, reading lots of books and thinking nothing exciting ever happened to me.
I mean... it’s Jane Austen.
Love, love, loved this book! It was more silly than Jane Austen's other books, but that made it all the more fun to me. I listened to this on a couple of road trips and it made the drives much more enjoyable than otherwise.
Catherine Morland is such a real character! She is silly, naive, friendly, caring, honest, and much too carried away by the books she reads - reminds me an awful lot of my seventeen-year-old self. Maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much!
But we still get Austen's famous commentar ...more
Catherine Morland is such a real character! She is silly, naive, friendly, caring, honest, and much too carried away by the books she reads - reminds me an awful lot of my seventeen-year-old self. Maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much!
But we still get Austen's famous commentar ...more
Apr 28, 2019
Kate
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I found this a relatively easy read. I'm also curious now to read The Mysteries of Udolpho...
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Oct 09, 2015
Taryn
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really liked it
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Read for the "A book more than 100 years old" category in the 2015 reading challenge.
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My very favorite of hers.
Dec 07, 2007
Kaitlyn
marked it as to-read
Dec 17, 2009
Jeannine J9
marked it as to-read
Nov 22, 2013
Graceann
marked it as to-read
Jul 09, 2015
Katie
marked it as to-read
