allyndra

Austen is one of my mother's favourites (along with Hawthorne! Who likes Hawthorne!?!?! Not that there's anything wrong with liking Hawthorne /blatant attempt to cover my ass should you be a massive Hawthorne fan) and we had an epic battle of the wills from the time I was about ten until I was about sixteen, because I wouldn't read Pride and Prejudice. I didn't really have much to rebel against as a child, because my parents weren't big on rules, so it manifested in odd ways. I did read it eventually, but I didn't love it. Persuasion strikes me as a lot more intriguing, actually, because I like books about trying to put back together a relationship that has fallen apart.