Today I spent 1000 bucks in books and it’s only the beginning of the New Year yet! By the time the next three quarters toil their way through 2008, I’d have already spent more than enough of my earnings on books! Hee hee. Anyway, cutting to the present; two of them are Jane Austen classics; Emma and Pride and Prejudice. I’ve already seen the movie Pride and Prejudice, but this time I want laugh, I want to cry, I want to feel English, I want to be stupidly romantic, I want to experience the battle of the sexes, and I want to be able to comprehend how Elizabeth felt when Charlotte said “We are all fools in love!”
Aaah! Austen must really have lived each one of those heroines’ lives to have written with such colorful and powerful emotions; the morals, the relationships, the gracefulness, the pride, the intense romance, the sorrow, the anxiety, the pain, the revenge, the endearing strength of the women, the violent thrill of falling in and out of love! A whirlwind of emotions in one book. Who wouldn't love it?
So that’s that! I’ve planned my first best book for this year. Once I’m done with these two, I’ll let you in on the other two books that I’ve bought. Until later then!
16 comments:
1000 what?! I'm worried...
I also have Pride and Prejudice on my to read shelf but I'm waiting for the right time to read it. That moment when romance is all around, you know it, you've just described it :)
Austen is always a delight. Emma, especially so... at least, for me. Yes, more than Pride and Prejudice...
I feel like i've seen a zillion version of Pride & Prejudice, the book however hasn't manage to grab my not so intellectual mind yet, thus i've only read it once! Preferred the movie or tele version anytime ; )Looking forward to your revelation soon G3! Happy reading in the meantime! Hugs xx
forgot to mention, u should be on LIBRARY THING, catalogue all your library and exchange reviews with bookworms all over the planet = ) We r on there and so is our 1000 over books or library = ) Very small compared to the others hehehe
spent a lot more already. my house looks like a dusty old library. and you can find me somewhere in the middle. with my cigarettes. trying to make sense of it all with my companions for old age.
Howabout, ones u are done....we exchange ur book for my six part BBC classic CD set(remeber the series done by BBC) on Pride and Prejudice:))
DM,
A 1000 Indian rupees. That's about 25 USD. :D Don't worry much. Hee hee.. yeah it has GOT to be the right time if we need to appreciate fully the brilliance of the book! :) Hope the right time comes soon enough for you DM! :)
SuperN,
You liked Emma better? Goodie. Will read it ma'am :)
MUSH,
Library Thing? I should? Alrite will try it out. But I don't yet have a 1000 in my collection. Maybe a humble 100 :)
PHISH,
I cant believe you're smoking in your library! You should be whacked! :P
PAVI,
Hee hee. That's sounds like an idea! ;)
(sigh)
Ah, I'm relieved. I didn't know you used the word "bucks" to describe rupees too. :P
You have to see the movie "Becoming Jane Austen". I am an Austen geen. Love all her works.
i second phish, though i'm a lot more orderly, if i get a picture of what he has painted. and if i have a library o my own, it'll definitely allow smoking :P
i remember reading about half that book, long ago, and then shelving it. just couldn't appreciate it then. maybe i'll give it another go sometime...
i have so many unread books that i have resolved not to buy more till i read at least part of them...wonder how long i can hold my resolve though :)
DM,
ehehehe. We do too.
MansiT,
I will. I didn't know a movie on her existed! And thanks for visiting :)
D'bum,
You both need to be whacked!
LOL, I have a few books like that myself! But I still went and spent some on new ones ;)
yeah, i know, i keep doing that, and everytime i promise myself not to buy more books, only to break my resolve again.
i think, you misread a word in my post. :)
@ devil mood
lotsa youngsters do it. its the effect of 'americanisation', says my dad :P
i stick to rupee - its a rupee, why call it anything else? :)
i found it specially confusing i had an american friend over, when he used to ask me how much things cost, and i'd use the term 'buck', only to be corrected by him :))
G3, ok, i will read Emma.. hmm.. it must be good then.
Dharmabum: Yes, I understand. I was panicking for Miss Iyer, thinking that she had spent a thousand dollars in books! ;)
DM,
Yeah its the Americanization! *sigh* Don't you worry. Although it was only a 1000 rupees, it was reckless spending I think. I mean, I actually went to the bookstore to buy an Irving Wallace but couldn't get it. Besides, that afternoon I wasn't in the greatest of my spirits. And today I read in the papers that when you're down you tend to spend more on things that you don't actually need in the first place. Thank God I went to the bookstore then! Cos you cant make a mistake on books, can you? :)
DA,
Yep, I'm liking it as of now. :) Will keep you posted once I'm done!
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