Rereading Pride & Prejudice

[resonant]

Because it's cold and I just had to buy a car I didn't want ...

Has the Austen pro fanfic industry produced any tolerable books on the life of Charlotte Collins?

Comments

[resonant]

I'm enjoying it, but I think not quite the way the author wants me to -- I'm less interested in the thematic bits (which are hitting me with increasing frequency as I get near the end) than in the bits that tell you things about living in that time and in that place.

A neat example of the latter: Darcy and Bingley (who don't actually play much of a role in the book) come to the Bennet house on horseback. Ignoring whatever paths/roads there may be, they jump the fence into the meadow -- and all the Bennet horses, grazing in that meadow, come over and run with them until they jump the fence out of the meadow on the other side.

[fox]

Two Christmases ago I got Longbourn as a gift separately from both my mom and my brother. I guess once in a while I'm predictable. :-) I think I've enjoyed it the most of all the P&P profic I've read. (Mind you, I haven't read extensively--one of my earlier samplings was Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, so the bar is not very high.)