Book #111 of 2017: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Fanny Price is a somewhat passive heroine (which I gather was more of a virtue in Jane Austen’s time), but I still found myself liking Mansfield Park more than I did Pride and Prejudice. Call me a sap, but Edmund’s lifelong decency towards Fanny warms my …
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Book #90 of 2016: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen I liked this book, but I had rather a difficult time keeping the various characters straight in my head. (I think this problem was exacerbated by listening to the novel as an audiobook, with a reader who didn’t do much to distinguish voices, but Austen’s …
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