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I closed the book and said, "Dang, Jane!"
Loved the snark, the asides from Austen within the book, the characters, the sarcasm. It had a lot going on and I want to read it again.
4.5 rounded uuuup ...more
Loved the snark, the asides from Austen within the book, the characters, the sarcasm. It had a lot going on and I want to read it again.
4.5 rounded uuuup ...more
Jane Austen wrote this early in her career, but it wasn't published until after her death and never underwent a final author's revision. It feels a little bit like a warm-up book, with a somewhat erratic tone and a plot that is weaker than some of her others, but it still has gems like this:
"She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as any body might expect, she still lived on...A family of ten children will always be called a fine ...more
"She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as any body might expect, she still lived on...A family of ten children will always be called a fine ...more
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