Emma

Emma by Jane Austen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Reading Austen is not for everyone. In fact, at the risk of BYU coming back and taking away my BA in English, this is the first time I've finished "Emma". I've tried a dozen times before, and it just never clicked. The key for me with Austen is to get past the extra words to the core of her stories and the core of her characters. They're so cleverly constructed, and in the rare experience of having watched multiple film adaptations before reading the book, I still found so much that I have never considered about the infamous Miss Woodhouse. I loved getting lost in Highbury and falling in love with Mr. Knightley again.

Happy reading~