In my rush to post something (anything) before hitting the hay last night, I completely forgot to say where I was going next in my reading.
(Pause for dramatic effect)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen!
Why? Two major reasons. First, and less embarrassing, I have a loaner iPad for the summer and I could download
Northanger Abbey for free and I feel like I should be using the iPad as much as possible. (My initial impressions, four chapters in, are that I'd much prefer to be reading this in real book form.) The second, arguably more embarrassing reason requires a new paragraph.

I've read 5 of Austen's other novels:
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and
Mansfield Park. I have also read Karen Joy Fowler's
The Jane Austen Book Club (probably after reading
Sense and Sensibility, before
Persuasion and
Mansfield Park). In
TJABC, they read the aforementioned five, plus
Northanger Abbey and sometime in my reading of
TJABC, I got it into my head that I should read all six of the Austen books that they did. So I've been working on them, and this is my last one. Much as I hate to admit it, I kind of enjoyed
TJABC. I also (this is probably worse) have seen the movie, more than once. It's one of those movies that goes really well with a lazy Sunday morning. It's also got a pretty stellar cast (though I'll never be able to see Maggie Grace as anyone but Shannon from
Lost). So...a mazy run to get to
Northanger Abbey, and kudos to you if you can follow my twisted logic, but that's where I'm headed next (actually, that's where I currently am - as I mentioned, I'm four chapters in thus far).
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