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Jan 29, 2018
Susy
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3 stars
Well, next month I'll be reading yet another Jane Austen, but I'm starting to think that one once a year is quite enough. I get the feeling that there are different names, slightly different environments but that the main story is the same in every book. I know I really loved Pride and Prejudice when I read it many, many years ago. Maybe because it was my first one and so the storyline was new to me. Or maybe it's just because I liked different books at that time. When I read Emma last ye ...more
Well, next month I'll be reading yet another Jane Austen, but I'm starting to think that one once a year is quite enough. I get the feeling that there are different names, slightly different environments but that the main story is the same in every book. I know I really loved Pride and Prejudice when I read it many, many years ago. Maybe because it was my first one and so the storyline was new to me. Or maybe it's just because I liked different books at that time. When I read Emma last ye ...more
What a lovely book.
This was charming and Elinor and Marianne were fantastic. But this was nowhere near as entertaining or funny as Pride & Prejudice, nor as romantic as Persuasion. It also felt about 100 pages too long, and I found myself rewinding a lot because I was zoning out of the general bluster of it all. The men in particular felt fairly 2-dimensional, and their relationships with the sisters not very interesting. The end, too, felt a little too easy and pat for my liking.
But I did enjoy myself still, it w ...more
But I did enjoy myself still, it w ...more
Mar 31, 2018
Aqsa
marked it as to-read
