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A review by stainedsouth
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
4.0
The list of books that I have read and not added to GoodReads is long and varied. One on this list is The Jane Austen Book Club. I mention it now because I read that book (it was a pick from a member of my book club) long before ever read anything by Jane Austen. I truly didn’t get why there would even BE a Jane Austen book club.
Fast forward a few years and I finally - and fairly recently - read my first Austen book which happened to be Pride and Prejudice. Now, I had an understanding! I quickly went out and bought that book to add to my library and purchased Sense and Sensibility at the same time.
Austen amazes me, as I am sure she has amazed thousands of others. Her writing is quick witted and engrossing. Yes, it’s a bit old fashioned but in a charming way, not in a ‘oh heck, do I really have to wade through this’ sort of way. Elinor, Marianne, Edward, Willoughby, Colonel Brandon, and all of the other friends and family become real, humans with real virtues and character flaws. Austen provides insight on what it must have been like to be an intelligent, sensitive, genteel woman whose main prospect in life was in whether or not she inherited enough to support herself should she be unfortunate enough not to be married to a man who could support her.
Fast forward a few years and I finally - and fairly recently - read my first Austen book which happened to be Pride and Prejudice. Now, I had an understanding! I quickly went out and bought that book to add to my library and purchased Sense and Sensibility at the same time.
Austen amazes me, as I am sure she has amazed thousands of others. Her writing is quick witted and engrossing. Yes, it’s a bit old fashioned but in a charming way, not in a ‘oh heck, do I really have to wade through this’ sort of way. Elinor, Marianne, Edward, Willoughby, Colonel Brandon, and all of the other friends and family become real, humans with real virtues and character flaws. Austen provides insight on what it must have been like to be an intelligent, sensitive, genteel woman whose main prospect in life was in whether or not she inherited enough to support herself should she be unfortunate enough not to be married to a man who could support her.