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So Much More Shade Than I Remembered (and I thought I remembered a decent amount)

July 30, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This was a reread for me though it’s been more than a decade since my last read.  Instead of going through the plot since I think most people are familiar with the bare bones of the plot, I’m just going to share a few random thoughts I had while listening to this novel. So doing Austen as an audio book is interesting.  It was obvious when reading Persuasion that Anne Elliot was the only one with any common sense and that everyone around her was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British literature, classic, Jane Austen, juliet stevenson, Persuasion

Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Sense and Sensibility

February 18, 2016 by narfna 21 Comments

A couple of years ago for CBR6, I re-read Jane Eyre, and because I was overwhelmed with the task of writing a review for such a classic book, I decided to get weird and write the review in the form of letters to the characters. Since then, with an eventual plan to re-read all of Jane Austen’s books, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’d do the same with as many future classic books that I could. So. This is me […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: audiobook, classics, comedy of manners, Fiction, Jane Austen, juliet stevenson, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, romance, Satire, sense and sensibility, The Great Austen Re-Read 2016

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