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Emma

Jane Austen

Start date: June 15, 2016

Finish date: July 14, 2016

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Why we're reading this: FIRST in the POLL! and I love Jane Austen :>)
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What Members Thought

Jan 27, 2017 Christine PNW rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: vintage-women, read-my-hoard-2024, 2024

This was excellent in audio format, and gave me a whole new perspective on Emma and, more notably, on Jane Fairfax. I've always been ambivalent about Jane, and with this slow read I've really come around. I wish we'd gotten more Jane.

I also, even, came around to the Frank Churchill/Jane Fairfax pairing. She is too good for him, but I'm convinced at this point that he knows it and that his knowing it will make him a better man. He's not quite so shallow as I believed.

Mrs. Elton remains screamingl ...more

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Dec 15, 2013 Christine rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-books, romance-lovers-challenge-2014, british-literature, read-in-2014, radio-bbc-4, audiobooks, historical-fiction, freebiez, authors-a-to-d, chubby-chunkster

BBC Jane Austen

1. Emma Woodhouse is a woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry.

2. A ball, a picnic and a marriage proposal. ...more

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Jun 01, 2017 Grace rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mccrum-s-100-greatest, 2016-reads

#7 on the chronological McCrum list read. I'm reading several in a row now that things have gotten more modern. This is being written over a year after the reading while I'm getting the GR account squared away so I'll write no details but its getting 5 stars....

An explanation of my star rating.
5= Truly cream of the crop. Amazing. In a wondrous realm of their own
4= Special and well written. Truly a good/maybe great book, but not a rare 5 star wonder.
3= Moments of brilliance, a pleasure to read. ...more

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