Words like "Thither"

I overselpt this morning, which sounds funny because I got up at 6:30 :) Instead of getting ready for work, I fixed a little breakfast and sat down to try my hand at this blogging thing.

I'm reading Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I just recently finished Pride and Prejudice. It's my first time to read either book. I have both on DVD (I actually have 3 versions of P&P), but could never get into the books. Remember the scene from You've Got Mail where Kathleen is telling Joe about Pride and Prejudice... she reads it every year... gets lost in words like thither... then as you see him reading, he puts it down to shake his head in frustration, only to pick it up and try again and again :) I love that scene, and it pretty much describes how I felt about reading it the first time I attempted it.

I know I love the story and ALL the characters, but I just couldn't get through her writing style. I realize it is at least 200 years old, maybe more... But I could read Jane Eyre with very little difficulty... of course that was quite a bit later...

In the process of finishing my first manuscript, I've been reading on again and off again this wonderful book about writing... In doing so, as I sat and read P&P (getting tired of spelling it out) it was diffcult to follow because the writing style so SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than what is published today.

Well, I finally got over myself and finished P&P and YES I love the story. I love the characters. I love Mr. Darcy even more. I even found out his first name! My favorite bit in the book was at the end. I've only seen them put this scene in one version of P&P, which was actually the latest version starring Kyra Knightly (Hope I spelled that right!) and it's where Darcy asks for Elizabeth's hand in marriage and her father has that wonderful talk about respecting your mate. In the book, (and latest movie) she tells her father that it was Mr. Darcy's doing that save her sister Lydia from a fate worse than death... Now, I joke about having "closure issues", but I am a person who likes to see things wrapped up whenever possible. This scene totally did it for me. :) Because up until then, I always thought Elizabeth was the only one who knew. I really like the fact she shares it with her father.

Sense and Sensibility has been much easier to read. :) After this, I'm going to find Persuasion...