austen

courtesy- homestudio. go buy here because you live in america and can!

because she doesn't need much more of an introduction than that, does she?

i love austen.  just this week i read emma and watched sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice.

(not the original bbc p&p. the kiera knightly version. i have to say my preference will always be for the bbc mini-series- COLIN FIRTH I LOVE YOU- but there's something about the music and the gorgeous cinematography in the recent version. and both have just the BEST attention to details, with hogs running around, and table items so clearly...victorian.)

she's just the most brilliant author of her time.  humor, love, getting to knock down the stuffy, snooty, awful neighbor/family member/slighted wanna-be-lover.  what's better?

and to think i refused to even read her prior to my senior year AP language assignment of doing so.

(in hindsight, thank you ms. keezer.  and sorry mom, for the millionth time of not listening to you and perhaps going out of my way to avoid doing as you said i should do. like read pride and prejudice.)

i've decided that if you love austen, or even just love one of her books, we're meant to be bosom buddies.  soulmates do arise out of the crisp pages of an austen novel, by golly they do.

do you just want to PUNCH fanny?

does listening to mrs. elton make you vomit a little bit in your mouth?

do you rejoice oh so loudly when mr. bingley gathers his senses, ignores his stupid sister and finally rises to the occasion to be deserving of jane?

and let's not even TALK about the all encompassing joy that bursts through your limbs when elinor and edward are finally in the same room and elizabeth and mr. darcy admit their affections, only strengthened with time.

so, if you are in agreement, let us heretofore declare that the twenty eighth of march shall forevermore be exclaim-your-love-for-jane-austen day.

and exclaim i shall!