- What's the book?
- Who's the author?
- The first line and your first impression - the "pick-up line," as it were.
- Give five trivia about the book and/or author
- Mention significant plot developments, or summarize (unless you don't want to give spoilers)
- Share your favorite lines or thought-provoking quotes from the text
- Pride and Prejudice, a book set in early 19th century and first published in 1813 (according to Wikipedia).
- Jane Austen, who was born in 1775 and died in 1817 in England.
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." [I can't really give my first impressions of this line since I'm extremely familiar with it but….] It's a queer but intriguing line. I'm not sure what it's getting at or if I agree, so I want to keep reading.
- (1) Pride and Prejudice was one of Jane Austen's earlier novels, but it wasn't published until 1813. (2) Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions, but Austen changed the title after she revised her drafts because in the time between first writing it and publishing it, two other works had been published under First Impressions. (3) Although Austen's clergymen are often fools or were otherwise distasteful, she had a close relationship with her clergyman father and he supported her creativity. (4) We don't really know what she died of at age 41, but she did not receive treatment for a long time. (5) Jane Austen's identity as the author was not widely known until after her death. She was shy of attention, although she appreciated the monetary gains as her family fell on hard times.
- Plot developments here……
- “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
"Angry people are not always wise."
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
[I got these from Goodreads.com. Some are so clever.] - Yep, especially as an audiobook.
Okay, you probably didn't read through all of that – but if did, thank you!! I spent so much time on it………
Anyway, the books for this round are:
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic. –Amazon.com
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century. –Amazon.com
If there are any books you'd like to suggest, I'll try to fit them into future choices! I hope you'll choose one and join me! Remember to link back to me! When I have some money, I'll create an actual link-up, but I can't afford it right now…. Let's just see how this goes for now :)
[I'd like to specifically tag Emily at "The Book Healer" and Megan at "Be Brave." But everyone is invited.]