Week one of October is down; how's Northanger Abbey coming? I know a few that are finished reading already, so I thought to keep everyone interested and involved we'd try something new.*
To get us started, I wanted to share one to my favorite lines from the book:
"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all."**
So for our first discussion this month, I've picked two topics to start with:
1) Your favorite line from Northanger Abbey (or fav line so far). If you don't have one you could share a fav line from another Austen book.
2) The idea of this quote- Escapist Fiction. Does that mean sparkly vampires to anyone else? I love me some sparkly vampires and shape-shifting wolves, don't get me wrong. I adore escapist fiction, but it does have a bad reputation in the literary world, and society in general too. Is there anything to gain from it? Is it deserving of a bad connotation? Does it have any value? What are your thoughts; inquiring minds want to know.
*To anyone that is interested and finishing Northanger early on in the month, there are at least two of us reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie if you want to read along on that one too.
**Sorry I don't know what page that's on as my copy is a full works copy and thus it's on page 818, but I think it should be on or around page 2.
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Favorite lines:
p54 "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
I am not sure why, maybe it is my recent troubles in love, but this line really rang true for me. In my life I have been fortunate enough to have one or two wonderful friends that have been there to soothe my soul from the "pangs of disappointed love".
Also, on page 125: "To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid". This line just made me laugh out loud. I am sometimes too well informed and thus far to opinionated for my own good. Maybe I would do well to be more "sensible" and be less informed? Oh no thats not for me, better to be informed but be less liberal in offering my opinions.
As far as Escapist fiction goes the first thing that comes to my mind is entertainment. And sometimes you just need a book that will entertain and nothing more, so if it is bejeweled vampires that entertains you, go for it, at least your reading (and yeah, every now and then throw in a book that is deep and menaningful). :)
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