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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Start date: October 1, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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Oct 2013 - Persuasion

* chapters 1- 8
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Apr 17, 2012 Shanea rated it liked it

Shelves: classic, cwac, fiction, 1001, gb

2021 Seven years has seen me to be of the same age as Anne. I don't know if that similarity or to a greater appreciation of the satire and sentimentality inside caused me to enjoy it better this time, but I inhaled it this read through. Although, one person did have a good point; it is easier to deal with reading about the Mary and Elizabeths of the world if you aren't dealing with them daily as well.

2014 If I could think of one word to describe this book I would have to go with tepid. Jane Aus ...more

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Mar 14, 2010 Shea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics-challenge, all-things-austen

I loved this "last work" of Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey was published after her death. The more I read by her the more I enjoy them. I love that her characters are well-developed and entertainingly flawed. There is so much humor in her writing and it comes from the foibles of the characters. Most of her themes are true as much today as they were then. Anne Elliott is a great woman who, suprisingly for an Austen novel, is NOT on the hunt for a husband. She already found her true love and was pe ...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Staciel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, classic-lit, rated-5-stars, my-book-of-the-year

Do you feel that??? That is the earth shaking to it's core at the realization that 'Pride & Prejudice' is no longer my favorite Jane Austen novel-- this one is.

I have put off reading this book for so long because I had P&P, and does one need more?? I can honestly say: if you love P & P, but are slightly closer to 30 (or more)than you are a teenager, then 'yes'.

I love you, P&P, I do, but you are about misunderstanding in the courtship phase and newly discovered love and this book is about love fo ...more

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Jul 16, 2014 Ebster Davis rated it liked it · review of another edition

I thought this Austen book was going to be more romantic (The whole book these two people are having 8 years of pent-up, angsty feelings for each other and trying to figure them out.) but really its about a woman forced to hang out with snobby, entitled, incompetent, rich people...wishing she could hang out with people who are more like her (as in, not idiots...)

Austen is a bit more unforgiving towards certain steriotypes of people in this book, but consistant with her other books is the moral t ...more

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Aug 20, 2011 Ebster Davis added it

I thought this Austen book was going to be more romantic (The whole book these two people are having 8 years of pent-up, angsty feelings for each other and trying to figure them out.) but really its about a woman forced to hang out with snobby, entitled, incompetent, rich people...wishing she could hang out with people who are more like her (as in, not idiots...)

Austen is a bit more unforgiving towards certain steriotypes of people in this book (which was cool), but consistant with her other boo ...more

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