Believe it or not I've had time to read for pleasure this semester. My Tuesday/Thursday classes are jam packed and tend to be one after the other. There for I can
a) Walk all the back to my dorm fall into a comatose state for twenty minutes and pray that my mind can determine my alarm clock's ring from the current soundtrack running in my dream (am I the ONLY one this happens to consistently?)
OR
b) Prop my eye open with tooth picks and do the same with a good book.

Option B seems to get me to class more often than the former.

My most recent read was Persuasion by Jane Austen. This was the final publication of Ms. Austen's before her death, but honestly I feel like she should have stopped while she was ahead. The book contained all the gorgeous prose and attention to detail that her classics are revered for, but the protagonist's character was lacking. Maybe I am biased because of my own perception of what a "Jane Austen" woman should be like.

She is strong, takes up for herself, and she does not bend easily to the strict rules that Austen continuously made a satire of. Anne Elliott the main character in Persuasion is quite the opposite.

I found that I must go back to a stronger woman and story so I have started the classic Sense and Sensibility

Great teenage angst even in the late victorian era....

"I have no wish to be distinguished; and I have every reason to hope I never shall. Thank Heaven! I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence."

Ah I love it. I guess i'm just a sucker for a good romance. ;)