Austen All The Time: Rereading Bits and Pieces

I challenge you to see rereading not in terms of completing the novel in its totality- though this is how I reread most novels.

However, when it comes to Austen, I rearead certain passages of Pride and Prejudice (my most reread novel) and Persuasion, is that I reread certain chapters (Mr. Collins at the dinner table anyone?) over and over to just feel better. 

Source: Jane Austen's World

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

There's something to be said for loving a work of literature so much that you have it in multiple forms and can't go too long without picking it up and thumbing through it, or opening the ebook and scrolling through your highlights.

That is how I approach Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I also do this with Captain Wentworth letter to Anne Elliot in Persuasion.

 I can't help but reading Chapter 15 of Pride and Prejudice when I am having a bad day.

Listening to the painfully dull Mr. Collin go on about "excellent boiled potatoes",  I can't help but to feel my mood lighten.

Source: IMBD

I urge you to pick up your favorite great novel and read and reread certain passages without the pressure to read the entire novel.

I'll continue to do this and I hope you'll join me.

Happy reading my slow living friends.