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A review by mynameismarines
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5.0
Check out this podcast episode we did with many but not all of our P&P Feelings: Snark Squad Pod: Pride and Prejudice
[November 1, 2013] - Considering how many times I've read this, I shouldn't be surprised by how familiar it is, but that was the feeling I was overwhelmed with this reread. I knew these words so well and still they hadn't lost their ability to entertain and inspire. Favorite book is favorite book for a reason.
[April 9, 2016] - Marking for reread. I read this a heck of a lot quicker than I intended to, but the story just flew by. There are books that I reread that lend themselves to continued observations and new interpretations. This book is just so familiar. I said that last time I reread it to, but that feeling is so pervasive as I read these scenes and lines that are nearly memorized. I love this story. I'm not sure if I would've loved it had I picked it up as an adult, but this is a story that has grown up with me. I'm always in awe of how funny Austen is, and Lizzy by extension. There isn't a subject or character mentioned that we don't get some witty or tongue-in-cheek statement about and I love it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to watch all the adaptations.
[November 22, 2017] Marking for reread. I'm super behind this year on my reading goal, but I have managed to reread the three classics I strive to consume each year: Jane Eyre, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice.
This time around, Lydia's story really jumped out to me and how unrepentant she was to the very end. I caught a cold a couple weeks prior to reading this, which of course means that I watched both the Keira Kneightly adaptation as well as the BBC mini-series. It struck me how those two adaptations went about portraying the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The 2005 version took pains to show more connections between the characters, whether that was Jane and Lizzie's sisterly affection or tenderness between Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The book, however, I think is pretty straight forward about how Mr. Bennett feels for his wife. His heartfelt warning to Lizzie about not having her unable to respect her partner in life stood out to me this time around as well.
I love this story so darn much and there isn't really a time in my life when I'm not in the mood for it. I could pick it up tomorrow and read it all over again. There are worse things to be total trash for, I guess.
[March 7, 2018] Marking for reread. I just reread it, I know, but I got sick and this just makes me feel better. To be honest, I fell asleep at some point during the audiobook but then I just re-listened to the whole thing? So I probably read this 1.75 times, but it's cool. We'll mark it down once.
[September 21, 2018] I don't know how to keep track of my re-reading of this anymore because I discovered the audiobook this year and I've listened to it multiple, multiple times. Sometimes I fall asleep to it though and IDK.
[2019] It's funny that my last update is about not knowing how to track this anymore because that's what I was going to say here. I've just marked this on the final day of 2019 to stand in for the many, many, many times I listened to this story this year. I am in a perpetual state of reading Pride and Prejudice. This is the soundtrack that soothes me. This is a story I love every part of. I've truly reached the no more to say stage of media that is just mine now. Thank you, it belongs to me.
[2020] I guess it's tradition, now, that the final book I mark as read for the year is Pride and Prejudice. How many times did I read it this year? lol.
[November 1, 2013] - Considering how many times I've read this, I shouldn't be surprised by how familiar it is, but that was the feeling I was overwhelmed with this reread. I knew these words so well and still they hadn't lost their ability to entertain and inspire. Favorite book is favorite book for a reason.
[April 9, 2016] - Marking for reread. I read this a heck of a lot quicker than I intended to, but the story just flew by. There are books that I reread that lend themselves to continued observations and new interpretations. This book is just so familiar. I said that last time I reread it to, but that feeling is so pervasive as I read these scenes and lines that are nearly memorized. I love this story. I'm not sure if I would've loved it had I picked it up as an adult, but this is a story that has grown up with me. I'm always in awe of how funny Austen is, and Lizzy by extension. There isn't a subject or character mentioned that we don't get some witty or tongue-in-cheek statement about and I love it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to watch all the adaptations.
[November 22, 2017] Marking for reread. I'm super behind this year on my reading goal, but I have managed to reread the three classics I strive to consume each year: Jane Eyre, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice.
This time around, Lydia's story really jumped out to me and how unrepentant she was to the very end. I caught a cold a couple weeks prior to reading this, which of course means that I watched both the Keira Kneightly adaptation as well as the BBC mini-series. It struck me how those two adaptations went about portraying the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The 2005 version took pains to show more connections between the characters, whether that was Jane and Lizzie's sisterly affection or tenderness between Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The book, however, I think is pretty straight forward about how Mr. Bennett feels for his wife. His heartfelt warning to Lizzie about not having her unable to respect her partner in life stood out to me this time around as well.
I love this story so darn much and there isn't really a time in my life when I'm not in the mood for it. I could pick it up tomorrow and read it all over again. There are worse things to be total trash for, I guess.
[March 7, 2018] Marking for reread. I just reread it, I know, but I got sick and this just makes me feel better. To be honest, I fell asleep at some point during the audiobook but then I just re-listened to the whole thing? So I probably read this 1.75 times, but it's cool. We'll mark it down once.
[September 21, 2018] I don't know how to keep track of my re-reading of this anymore because I discovered the audiobook this year and I've listened to it multiple, multiple times. Sometimes I fall asleep to it though and IDK.
[2019] It's funny that my last update is about not knowing how to track this anymore because that's what I was going to say here. I've just marked this on the final day of 2019 to stand in for the many, many, many times I listened to this story this year. I am in a perpetual state of reading Pride and Prejudice. This is the soundtrack that soothes me. This is a story I love every part of. I've truly reached the no more to say stage of media that is just mine now. Thank you, it belongs to me.
[2020] I guess it's tradition, now, that the final book I mark as read for the year is Pride and Prejudice. How many times did I read it this year? lol.