Finished my #JaneAusten #Reading with #NorthangerAbbey - VERY funny in places, especially early on & some insightful asides about women & their treatment, as in the screenshot it did enough to ensure it did not come in last in my affections. My rankings and #StoryGraph ratings #bookstodon @bookstodon

RE-READ CERTAIN
1. Persuasion 4.75/5
2. Mansfield Park 4.75/5

RE-READ POSSIBLE
3. Pride and Prejudice 4.25/5
4. Sense and Sensibility 4/5

ONCE WAS ENOUGH
5. Northanger Abbey 4/5
6. Emma 3.5/5

I simply LOVED this takedown of a very anodyne word in #NorthangerAbbey but it would have been nice if she'd gone all the way back to its earliest English meaning. 😀

"it is a very nice word indeed!—it does for every thing. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement;.... But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.”" #JaneAusten #bookstodon @bookstodon

I'm #Reading #NorthangerAbbey to complete my #JaneAusten TBR and if it keeps going like this, it will be fun #bookstodon

"There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door"
@bookstodon