Score One for Austen!

Mar 01, 2007 16:12

Pride and Prejudice Tops British Reads

I'm currently re-reading Emma, and while it's slow-going, I still love it. The fact that I can remember so much of the characters and plot after ten years speaks highly of Austen. How her characters resonate so well in the 21st century says volumes about the universal human experience. *I* obsess and worry over the *exact same things* Emma does. Craziness! Love it.

In other reading news, I finished The Book of Lost Things which blew my mind. It is so, so good. A boy's journey of grief is intertwined with dark re-tellings of fairy tales in this witty, clever novel by John Connolly. I cried at the end, and I rarely cry while reading. Best book of 2007 so far.

I also re-read Stardust by Neil Gaiman, because I wanted a bit more fantasy after Connolly. The film version is also coming out this year. It's a wonderful book, but I just couldn't get as into it this time as I did when I first read it. I think some books are meant to be read only once, or only at certain points in our lives in order for us to fully enjoy them. Still, I recommend it and am looking forward to the movie.

Finally, I finished Save Your Own by Elisabeth Brink, our March book club selection. It pretty much sucked sweaty goat balls. The story is unoriginal. Of course there is nothing new under the sun, but there is always a unique way of looking at things, and Brink's story of a naive PhD student discovering herself in the real world has been told. Many times. Often on Lifetime. And, and! The main character changes--CHANGES!--a man. All of a sudden this skirt-chaser wants to settle down because the main character (whose name I have already forgotten) is "so different from other girls." I roll my eyes as I type. I'm also pretty sure from the description that this around-the-way dude has a mullet.

And that brings us back to Emma and one of my literary boyfriends, Mr. Knightley. Mmm, Mr. Knightley.

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