I've been in a bit of a reading slump recently - the last romance novel I read wasn't great, and I forced myself through it becuase I'd never read anything quite like it before and wanted it to be good (it wasn't).

Which means it's time for a reading reset, and the best reset comes from rereading an old favourite. I haven't yet decided which to go for:

- Pride and Prejudice: d'ja'know, I hadn't seen or even really heard of P&P when a family friend gave me a copy and told me to read it. I've reread it at least ten times since. Probably twice that, honestly.

- North and South: I believe it's a review on this very website that best sums up this book: "Socialist Pride & Prejudice." You think Darcy's repressed? JUST YOU WAIT. (Y'know that Kate Beaton comic about Heathcliff stabbing himself in the thigh with a fork? STRONG Thornton energy.)

- Wait for What Will Come: I read this quite fluffy 70s Gothic, set in a crumbling mansion in Cornwall, when I was eleven and fell madly in love. I reread it every few years. It has it all: a delightfully practical protagonist, multiple possible romantic partners, a 200-year-old diary, a curse, and a cat called King Carter.

I could probably go on at length about reset reads but why kid myself; instead I'm going to go dig up a copy of a book where a man is REPRESSED and his love interest is HIGHLY SENSIBLE and things end happily. Bonus points for curses.