I’ve met so many wonderful people in the book-blogosphere that every moment I was away from TIR, I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

This month has been a busy/crazy one, without going into details, but things are starting to calm down a little bit and I’ll have more time to devote to reading and writing reviews.

In the meantime, however, I’ve just discovered something I think I love: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.

A while ago, I picked up the complete works of Jane Austen and began reading Sense & Sensibility, but it didn’t suck me in and life got in the way. Eventually I put down that book and dove into the Chronicles of Narnia (as part of the re-reading challenge).

After spending three books in Narnia, I decided I needed a break and picked up Jane again. This time I skipped ahead and started reading Pride & Prejudice (based on the synchronicity of two of my friends’ comments) and let’s just say I started reading the wrong book first. P&P sucked me in from the beginning and kept my attention through ’til the end.

One interesting thing that I noted while reading the book is how easy it is for our own perceptions to cloud better judgment. Austen truly captured the nuances of the different personalities and how those nuances can affect an individual’s actions, for better or worse.

I’m debating on writing a review since Austen reviews already abound. I may just write a very short one explaining why I liked it specifically, but leave out all the summations and analysis. Until that day comes though, just know that I thoroughly enjoyed it and can see it being added to my re-read list. It made me laugh out loud, gasp, and experience the full range of emotion while reading–which is what a good book ought to do.

(On a completely random tangent, I have the roughcut edition and I love it; I feel as if the rough edges give the physical book some character.)