February Book

Everyone thinks about Valentine's Day when it comes to February, so I wanted to read a romantic book for this month.  As my husband says "everyone has seen Pride & Prejudice, but how many people have read it?" I am sure a great many people have read the book, but to be quite honest I have not read it. In fact, I have never read a single Jane Austen novel. I have only seen every movie made on them.  So I thought to myself, "self: it is time to get off your lazy butt and read some Jane!" So we have our book for this month, folks:

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Description:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be." 


I am very excited to read this book, and I hope you will join me in my quest to read more. Let the romance begin!