In Want of a Good Book

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: These chapters reveal pretty much everyone’s secrets, which are the cause of much mayhem.  Mrs. Jennings becomes extra busy because her daughter has her baby, so Elinor and Marianne end up spending a lot of time at the Middletons and… Read more

Readers, we may be posting our next few blogs a little more often so that we can wrap up this book before the end of the year and take a hiatus over the holidays. (This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: We finally get a massive revelation… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: The Miss Dashwoods make their way to London with Mrs. Jennings, a three-day journey during which Marianne continues her rude behavior, leaving poor Elinor to pick up the slack, as usual. The second they arrive, Marianne writes a letter, which… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: This set of chapters starts with the introduction of two new characters – the Miss Steeles. The elder Miss Steele and the younger sister Lucy Steele are relatives of Mrs. Jennings and come to visit at Barton. We also learn… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: The first part of this section made me laugh out loud – Marianne’s melancholic state is absolutely hilarious, and Mrs. Dashwood’s sympathy for her kind of makes me roll my eyes. R: Austen describes this period as a ‘violence of… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: There is so much in these five chapters which endear me to certain characters and have me rolling my eyes at others. I find Marianne’s and Willoughby’s displays of affection rather annoying, sort of like those couples you see who… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: Hello, again! I have to say, as I’ve been saying to myself and anyone who’ll listen over the past few weeks, ‘Why, oh why did it take me so long to read the beauty that is Jane Austen?!’ I feel… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: Greetings! Welcome to the inaugural post of our new blog, In Want of a Good Book, as we read through Jane Austen’s first printed novel, Sense and Sensibility. It was originally published in three volumes, anonymously, in 1811 (1). I’m… Read more