A review by marlisphillips
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

3.0

This is one of the more unusual Jane Austen books I have read in that it was very dramatic. I watched a movie version of it first and found it very bizarre so I had to read it to see how close the movie was to the book. The father-in-law in this story could have made the book fit the “7 deadly sins” prompt as he was guilty of greed and anger but I chose to use the “book without a picture on the cover” prompt. As usual with Austen’s books, the heroine was very sensible and we just had to wait for the rest of the characters to fall into place. A favorite passage in reference to reading history books: "I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, the wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all-it is very tiresome