I just finished my annual reading of Pride and Prejudice. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.Seriously. When I am finished reading this book there is nothing I want more than to be in the English countryside "accidentally" bumping into a brooding hot rich guy. Who wouldn't? I also love the characters. Has there ever been so great a dork as Mr. Collins or such an awful, horrid mother as Mrs. Bennett? I love it.
When I was nursing Gracie I read tons. And by tons I mean A LOT. This time it's been a little different as I can only read and nurse in the morning and night when I don't have to entertain Gracie at the same time. I just started the classic that I read when I was 13 "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". I love this book as well. It takes me back to my imaginative days of my youth...which honestly have never left me. I think next on my list is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". That book is my number one favorite...I think. Pride and Prejudice sure is up there. Maybe I can have a happy number one- "Pride and Prejudice" and a thoughtful number one "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".
Anyway...here's to reading. I love it.
whats a tree grows in brooklyn abt? i know ive heard it once before? you should write more books on here. ive been wondering what to read abt. i am reading abt the amer revolution right now. its been like 6 weeks and im on pg 100 or something. ha!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it just a sad commentary on my life that I've only watched the movie and never read the book? It's here in "to be read" pile by my bed (along with Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility.) I need to read more.
ReplyDeleteSuch a good book! Now that PBS is doing Jane Austen movies on Sunday nights I think it's time to read it again, plus the others.
ReplyDeleteI liked "Witch of Blackbird Pond" even more this last reading. I could see why it appeals to your free spirit. And I like her description of her dresses.
I'm very impressed. I am not good at finding time to read! Let alone take a shower! But this is inspiring.... I need to try harder and pull out some old classics that make me happy!
ReplyDeleteI love it too! I read it last year as a book club choice and then we all got together and watched the 5-hour Colin Firth movie. It was so fun to watch the movie right after reading the book. Right now, I'm reading Sense and Sensibility, along with a lot of other random books. :) I started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a few months ago, but couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll give it another try when I'm not reading 5 books simultaneously. :)
ReplyDelete..and I love you! I haven't ever read any Jane Austen...Autumn, this is sad and I must do so. I did however, steal A tree grows in Brooklyn from mom so maybe we can read it at the same time.
ReplyDeleteah, two of my all time favorites. Although P&P is probably the top of the heap. I can't count how many times I've read it. When my sis and I were traveling in Europe several years ago we agreed to swap books rather than pack too many. I finished P&P before she finished hers. I vividly remember sitting on the train, looking around and realizing there was nothing to do but start P&P over again. She hadn't read it yet and lectured me about how I just couldn't do that. Now that she has read it multiple times she gets it.
ReplyDeleteI love it, too. It's a delight. You should read Middlemarch if you haven't. It's an extraordinary book. Jazzy and Jeanelle, you have an obligation to read P&P. I'm sorry, it's unacceptable to go this far in life without having read it. I expect a report by July. ;)
ReplyDeletehi autumn! its darcy (barraclough) porter. i found your jasmines blog and then found yours. yay!!
ReplyDeleteyour kids are sure cuties! i saw gracie once when she was tiny but havent seen any of your since. its nice to be able to catch up!
It's definately one of my favorite books too. I never thought of reading it annually, but I just might make that a new goal.
ReplyDeleteAhhh... I love that book and the different movies too. One thing that I think is very interesting and well done is the line by Mrs. Bennett in the movie when she says to Elizabeth that if she had five daughters then all she would think about was getting them married too. I think that gives a great insight to her and to the era. While she is silly and quirky, I think she does have some good (and necessary) intentions.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I love them all and I totally agree on the hot brooding rich guy. I have one (not necessarily rich), but it is always exciting to pretend meeting in such a way.
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P&P is one of my all-time favorites--and you write? I think I just stumbled upon a kindred spirit!
ReplyDeleteAutumn -
ReplyDeleteIt was great to meet you at the Storymakers Conference!
Now, a confession: I LOVE the Pride and Prejudice movie - and watch it beginning to end several times a year (the Colin Firth version, of course). It's even on my ipod. BUT - I've never been able to read all the way through the book. I don't even make it very far through the beginning. Why? I have no clue. Even my hubby has read it. I will repent . . . one of these days.