Benjamin Schlaich > Recent Status Updates

I feel like I'm in the swing of this book now. Classics are sometimes challenging for me, but having a good audiobook is helping the inflection and meaning making come across really well. I'm loving the subtlety of the prose & how Austen details highly complicated characters & interractions. Her voicing is fantastic!

Fantastic!! Easily looking like it'll be an all-time favorite of mine. ---when I was just thinking of reading this book people mentioned "atmosphere" as a main draw. And, I feel that---but, in a different way than maybe I first expected. Instead of the atmosphere of "place," the book in some ways captures an atmosphere of "spirit" that I adore; it's interesting to see something, agree with something, but with a prong

Good so far, sad, but I’m having the most trouble with the writing style— it’s hard to believe the narrative voice is inside the heads of these girls especially when their dialogue is SO starkly different