Success!!

Yay me! Emma is completed. I'm going to start Mansfield Park before I got to bed tonight, and have it finished by next Thursday. Then, it's Wurthering Heights.

Emma was...decent. It got better closer to the end. I'd say the first 3/4 of the novel was boring, for myself at least. And Emma was just retarded. I didn't like her nearly as much as I liked Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Knightely was win, though.

I can't wait until we see the movie version in class; it's not going to be until the last part of the semester, though. We're also going to watch Clueless. Any class that has that movie was part of the curriculum is win, for sure. We have to get through MP and the movie version first, however. I kind of misread the syllabus and started on Emma before I was supposed to, but I couldn't bring myself to stop reading it and pick up a new book. I hate that.

Anyway...I pretty much rock. (= One down, forty-nine to go. ;)

Spring Break

I am now officially on spring break ((thank God)). In between sleep, sleep and bad television, I plan to:

1. complete Emma
2. complete Mansfield Park
3. begin either The Enchantress of Florence, Anna Karenina or Jane Eyre

Number 3 does not necessarily have to be accompished during spring break, but definitely by it's end. If I wanna even get close to 50 novels, I need to put a dent in the list already.

Big time serious for number 1, though. I'm tired of posts complaining about that novel. I need a new one to complain about.

Blaaaah Emma

I'm having some serious difficulties with reading Emma. It's just not as a great as Pride and Prejudice, which is definitely my favorite. I'm a little worried about reading Mansfield Park, which I need to start in a week.

Obviously, P&P has been a long-running favorite for many Austen fans, but I was expecting a little bit more from her other books. I suppose it's because Emma was written before P&P, and there are styles and themes she definitely changed for future works. But I get hung up easily on...what I want to call errors. 'I don't like when dialogue is placed inside of apostrophe's instead of quotations. It's annoying, especially when one decides to "quote a person within the dialogue, so Austen decides to finally use the quotations correctly." It gets on my ever-living nerves.'

I mean, there are certain aspects of Emma that are enjoyable. I love picking out the bits to the book that were transferred over to the film "Clueless". But other than that...it's kind of boring.

Gah, I have a couple weeks yet to finish it. I feel like I've been reading it for years. I just want to be done already.