Jane Austen discussion

so what are we reading? I think i have sense and sensibility, pride and predjudice and persuasion...
I have also never acutally got through any of her books...haha but i want too

Lady Vale which ones have you read so far?

I've always wanted to read Persuasion but I'm up for anything

Of course any of them are worth reading. I'm up for whatever the group picks.

Pride and Predjudice is awesome, i have sense and sensibility, but I haven't read it yet….I'm up for any of them…..but Pride and Predjudice does rock...

I will be reading all of them as well so poll is a good idea.

I'm confused, The poll says Northanger Abbey and I though last month the book was Mansfield Park. I just want to make sure before I go to get the book. Thanks.

since we just read Mansfield Park, I'm guessing you meant Northanger Abbey. I will totally join in on the read, looking forward to it!

I'd like to join in with Northanger Abbey, haven't read it before but have it here sitting on my book shelf just waiting to be picked up!

It's been many years since I read it so this will be fun.

Ok I have my copy of Northanger Abbey so I am ready to go. :)

I've started Northanger Abbey. It's going to be a slow read for me. I've been at it for 3 days and only in the 3rd chapter. The chapters are short, too. I'll never last with it as my only read. I'll have to pick it up and just read a little at a time. Sense & Sensibility took me FOREVER to read. I think it was on the bedside table for a year or more at a time. But I did finish it. Yeah!

Only just started, had a headache that lasted two days and just stopped me reading anything at all! I finished Ch 1 and I like it so far, I like the amused tone Jane Austen assumes and my first impression of Catherine Morland is that she is very likeable.

I just finished Persuasion so I'll be ahead of the game for a change! It's a great book. I loved every minute that I was reading it.

So glad, can't wait to re-read this one.

The only ones I have left are Lady Susan and Emma...I think I'll start by reading Lady Susan.

Please let me know what Lady Susan is like.

Currenly reading P&P for the 2nd time and then i will be re reading Emma.

Read them all now appart from Lady Susan and her unfinshed works - read her 6 main ones :)

I will :) From what I heard, it's unfinished but promising. The main character is said to be quite detestable, but I think Jane has a talent for making us almost like detestable creatures.

im reading sense and sensibility next :D how many does she have??

She has seven completed novels Caro but she has other works. There is a thread some place in this group, where all her works are listed.

Her main 6 are...
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
:)

okat got it

finished persuasion loved it...so what next?

So glad you loved. So, that Persuasion Emma and Pride and Prejudice ?

yup!!

I say... Northanger Abbey :)

hmmmmmmm whats it about?

"Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences."
~ Vintage Classics

(this bit is in my own words ;) )
The story of the innocent and naive Catherine Morland and her over-active imagination, just beginning to discover the ways of the real world, with the 'help' of the teasing Mr Tilney! Will she accept the ways of the real world, or it is possible to read too many novels?

My review: A very funny novel! This is primarily achieved through Austen's style of writing in this novel, as she is parodying the Gothic style, which was popular in her time. It is further achieved with the hero, who is constantly laughing at the rules of society - and laughing at the very innocent heroine! Fun and entertaining read :)

Well put, Soph!

Caro... Northanger Abbey is a little different... it's almost more child-like (or Catherine, the heroine, is) than some of the others, but it's a lovely, lovely read. I can't sum it up any better than Soph but agree it's the best next one to read :)

Thanks :)
Northanger abbey was the one are first started writing so she was at her youngest which is probably why it has her youngest heroine (sense and Sensibility was the one that was published and finished first)