A Meme

Jess has tagged me:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people and post a comment to the person who tagged you once you've posted your three sentences.

As is often the way with me, I make things complicated! I created a dilemma for myself because the nearest book to me was *cringe* my own that I'm polishing for the RNA's NWS. So, here it is:

At various times during the week he’d tried to approach her, concerned
about her wan, lack-lustre complexion. But Beth had met each attempt
with cold rejection. She’d made it clear that Josh’s help was the last
thing she needed. Or wanted.

Now, for a REAL book - the one I'm reading at the moment. For the first time
in ages, I've had an urge to read a new-to-me Jane Austen novel. A film
on TV a couple of weeks ago Miss Austen Regrets,
pulled me in and I was hooked by the portrayal of Jane's character. It
showed her writerly thoughts, and was set during the time she was
writing Emma. As soon as the film ended (after putting a spontaneous order in to Play
to order my own copy of the DVD) I went straight to the bookcase to
find the book itself, which I'm almost ashamed to admit I've never
read, despite having owned all Austen's works for years.

The weather was most favourable for her ; though Christmas Day, she could
not go to church. Mr. Woodhouse would have been miserable had his
daughter attempted it, and she was therefore safe from either exciting
or receiving unpleasant and most unsuitable ideas. The ground covered
with snow, and the atmosphere in that unsettled state between frost and
thaw, which is of all others the most unfriendly for exercise, every
morning beginning in rain or snow, and every evening setting in to
freeze, she was for many days a most honourable prisoner.

I'm LOVING this story. For me, Miss Austen Regrets has shown me just who Jane Austen was, not only as a writer but as a woman living in Regency times. As I read Emma
I'm recognising traits that most likely reflect those of Jane herself.
I now feel a hunger for learning all things Jane Austen, and I'm
looking forward to reading all her other novels that are waiting for me
on my bookcase.

I'm not going to tag five other people because
I've been out of 'the loop' in the virtual world for far too long. If, by some
miracle [vbg], there is anybody reading this please consider yourself
tagged!

~ Sue ~

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