And the December meme goes on.
For December 8, 
wings128 wanted me to talk about a book that will always and forever be one of my favourites.
For me, my love for specific books is often tied to certain periods in my life. When I was a teenager, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once a year, and all Agatha Christie mysteries the library had to offer every summer. Now I revisit those books more rarely.
The book I have most reliably returned to ever since I first read it is probably Pride and Prejudice. I'm a big Jane Austen fan in general, but P&P is just such a delight. I usually get a hankering to read it and watch the 1995 mini-series every spring.
Mr. Darcy is not actually my favourite Austen hero (I'm not sure who is - Colonel Brandon? Captain Wentworth? Mr. Knightley? - they're all fine specimens of manhood!), but Elizabeth and him are definitely my favourite Austen couple.
I know exactly how the story will end, and all the twists and turns it takes along the way, but it's the characters I return for. That, and the humor. Jane Austen was an incredibly sharp and witty observer of human nature, and while life today for a single woman of no great fortune is very different from what it was 200 years ago, Austen's characters and their concerns still ring true.
wings128 wanted me to talk about a book that will always and forever be one of my favourites. For me, my love for specific books is often tied to certain periods in my life. When I was a teenager, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once a year, and all Agatha Christie mysteries the library had to offer every summer. Now I revisit those books more rarely.
The book I have most reliably returned to ever since I first read it is probably Pride and Prejudice. I'm a big Jane Austen fan in general, but P&P is just such a delight. I usually get a hankering to read it and watch the 1995 mini-series every spring.
Mr. Darcy is not actually my favourite Austen hero (I'm not sure who is - Colonel Brandon? Captain Wentworth? Mr. Knightley? - they're all fine specimens of manhood!), but Elizabeth and him are definitely my favourite Austen couple.
I know exactly how the story will end, and all the twists and turns it takes along the way, but it's the characters I return for. That, and the humor. Jane Austen was an incredibly sharp and witty observer of human nature, and while life today for a single woman of no great fortune is very different from what it was 200 years ago, Austen's characters and their concerns still ring true.