Jane Austen book club of one

I frequently get urges to reread favourite books. A lot. There is a certain series [Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen, if anyone really wants to know] by Tamora Pierce, that I am pretty sure I have read at least 4 or 5 times. And those are not small books [just as a side-note: yes, these books are classified as "teen fiction"; I, however, at the great age of 21 find these books to still be deliciously wonderful. Dianna Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle [this book is the inspiration for Studio Ghibli's movie of the same title; which I think of as the one book-to-movie adaptation that was utterly wonderful and didn't positively suck balls] is another example of a book that I've read more than twice.

And being the true English-y, nerdy girly I am, I am rereading all of the Jane Austen books I have read while interspersing the ones I haven't read in between. I am essentially, as the title of this entry says, a Jane Austen book club of one.

I've even gotten Kyleman somewhat interested. Ok, that's a lie, but he has made different inquiries to how my book is going - whether to just hear me fumble through a plot description [something I am never good at] or not, all I care is that he will listen to me ramble about Austen and her characters. The main one right now being Emma from, well, Emma.

I had tried reading Emma before and ended up getting a couple pages in, giving up and not touching it again until I had to return it to the library. Then a while ago, I found a copy of it at Value Village and somehow got it into my head to buy it. What can I say, I'm a true lover of Austen and it was Value Village, what was $3 for another potential love of my life?

Sometimes I find I have to give books a little time to settle and me a little time to grow into it and when I try to reread them WHAM! Helloooooo love!

Emma and I still had a little disagreement though. While I was more prepared to dive into it, Emma did not seem that willing to have me. Until WHAM! the middle of volume 3, I fell in love before I even realized it.

And that's one of the best feelings in the world.