Pride and Prejudice – Part 2
First things first, I have been up many late nights with this book, so much so, that I have come down with a summer head hold (great). Every time I take a step my head throbs (not fun), but I definitely have no regrets because I absolutely loved reading this book (yeah for love). Whether it was the moment Mr. Darcy surprised Elizabeth with his first confession of his love and her brutal refusal, or when they meet again by chance at Pemberly and she begins to see him in a new way, I was hooked.
For an entire week I have been quoting Mrs.Bennet (Elizabeth’s crazy mother) at work, and I began twittering in “Austen-speak”* much to the confusion of some of my followers. I even renewed my library card (after years of non-use they booted me from the system) when I realized how much buying all the books from the list would cost. I am not sure if I will continue to read from the library though, because a coworker asked me, “do you ever think about the people who pick their noses and read these books?” (thanks Anj).
To which I replied, “I DO NOW!”
She uses plastic gloves to read library books, perhaps i will too.
There were so many moments in this book where my heart skipped a beat, or I bit my bottom lip in anticipation of what would happen next. So many standout characters, so many standout lines, all too many to mention in so small a space. I cannot recommend “Pride and Prejudice” enough to anyone who has not read it yet.
*Austen-speak: pretending to speak as though your a character in a Jane Austen novel
(ie. I inquired as to which coffee was to be his choice, to which he then graciously replied with all the civility of his good breeding that he was and always had been partial to the darker roast of the two.
