Don't stop -- what happens next? Did they drink more mineral water? All this excitement...I think I need to lie down for a dozen years or so. I don't expect the publishing industry will change much in the meantime.
Saved the best for last- I absolutely love an angry, bitchy Jane! Excellent series, your Emma in particular. I tried to read them aloud to my spouse and got a very polite “I’m glad you are enjoying it” instead…
If you care about an old woman’s feelings at all, young Mr. Lavery, you will take a good, hard look at Jane’s juvenalia (unless you already have, and I missed it, in which case, spin this one out good and long please)
As a kindness to a fan: would you just instruct me which Austen to read? I never read them because they were popular and I have that former-weird-kid personality trait of not wanting to like things that are especially popular. But now I feel left out.
I would gladly do! To cure you of your perverse anti-popularity, I sentence you to begin with Pride & Prejudice, the most popular of her very popular novels. It really is very good.
OKAY. I read the first fifth on the ferry (I "had to" go to Uruguay for the day) and I laughed aloud and annoyed a woman near me, then finished it over the next several days. I didn't know they were funny, I thought they were pleasant. Agatha Christie, but with marriage instead of murder. So thank you! I'm going to buy Northanger Abbey and read it next time I'm on a boat, which will probably be November when I have to go to Uruguay again.
Don't stop -- what happens next? Did they drink more mineral water? All this excitement...I think I need to lie down for a dozen years or so. I don't expect the publishing industry will change much in the meantime.
Saved the best for last- I absolutely love an angry, bitchy Jane! Excellent series, your Emma in particular. I tried to read them aloud to my spouse and got a very polite “I’m glad you are enjoying it” instead…
If you care about an old woman’s feelings at all, young Mr. Lavery, you will take a good, hard look at Jane’s juvenalia (unless you already have, and I missed it, in which case, spin this one out good and long please)
Thank you! So I am to understand that if we are not getting sick of this, it isn’t the last one. Very good.
Well unfortunately after this I'm out of Jane Austen books! So it really will have to be the last one.
"...The Too-Observant Pedestrian of Blackenchance Abbey. The Skeletons of Skeleton Castle. You get the idea."
I do! I do get the idea! And hoo boy, good thing I have an embroidered pocket square handy!
And good old Thorpe, dressed like a horse or worse...
it's like a core workout, the laughing! You're fantastic. Thanks, Danny!
As a kindness to a fan: would you just instruct me which Austen to read? I never read them because they were popular and I have that former-weird-kid personality trait of not wanting to like things that are especially popular. But now I feel left out.
I would gladly do! To cure you of your perverse anti-popularity, I sentence you to begin with Pride & Prejudice, the most popular of her very popular novels. It really is very good.
Purchased and placed next in mental queue. Will report. Many thanks!
If things go well I’d recommend DA Miller’s Austen book (very short) and Regulated Hatred by DW Harding!
OKAY. I read the first fifth on the ferry (I "had to" go to Uruguay for the day) and I laughed aloud and annoyed a woman near me, then finished it over the next several days. I didn't know they were funny, I thought they were pleasant. Agatha Christie, but with marriage instead of murder. So thank you! I'm going to buy Northanger Abbey and read it next time I'm on a boat, which will probably be November when I have to go to Uruguay again.