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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood might be very close, but the sisters couldn't be more different. Elinor, the eldest, is rational and cool-headed. Marianne, the middle child, is passionate and can never hide her feelings. As they both meet men who catch their respective eyes, they will have to help each other through the ups and downs of falling in love.
This is my fourth Austen - the others in order being Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. If you don't know me well, you may not know that Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time. I recently purchased all of her full-length novels in the Signature Classics edition so I thought now was the time to pick up this book that I've been saying I'd read since I was 13 (I'm 20).
I had fun with this, though I can't say that I'm attached to these characters as much as I am to those in P&P and Emma (maybe I just need to watch an adaptation!). I liked not knowing how it would end, which is not common with classics in my case. The humor, particularly surrounding their sister-in-law, was spot-on and characteristically Austen. I liked the care that the sisters clearly have for each other and how they take care of one another. Lucy's first one-on-one with Elinor was such a treat to read - what a twist. However, I honestly don't love either of the couples that we're meant to root for. One of the couples barely ever interact on the page and in the other, the guy doesn't deserve her and he isn't on the page long enough to balance out my mediocre-at-best opinion of him. As much as this has a HEA, I definitely think both of our main characters deserved better. Considering that marriage is always what these types of books build up to, this can't have been as much of a favorite of mine as Emma and Pride and Prejudice are. I'm thinking that the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet adaptation will soften me to them, though, so look out for that!
This is my fourth Austen - the others in order being Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. If you don't know me well, you may not know that Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time. I recently purchased all of her full-length novels in the Signature Classics edition so I thought now was the time to pick up this book that I've been saying I'd read since I was 13 (I'm 20).
I had fun with this, though I can't say that I'm attached to these characters as much as I am to those in P&P and Emma (maybe I just need to watch an adaptation!). I liked not knowing how it would end, which is not common with classics in my case. The humor, particularly surrounding their sister-in-law, was spot-on and characteristically Austen. I liked the care that the sisters clearly have for each other and how they take care of one another. Lucy's first one-on-one with Elinor was such a treat to read - what a twist. However, I honestly don't love either of the couples that we're meant to root for. One of the couples barely ever interact on the page and in the other, the guy doesn't deserve her and he isn't on the page long enough to balance out my mediocre-at-best opinion of him. As much as this has a HEA, I definitely think both of our main characters deserved better. Considering that marriage is always what these types of books build up to, this can't have been as much of a favorite of mine as Emma and Pride and Prejudice are. I'm thinking that the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet adaptation will soften me to them, though, so look out for that!