May Book #3

Book: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Age-range: 10 and up
As good as the first time?: You betcha!

In my quest to read all of Austen's works this summer I have now read two: Emma and Pride & Prejudice. I've read P&P a lot. In high school my friends and I read it simultaneously and then discussed it. I read it every summer for awhile (more as an excuse to watch the A&E movie with Colin Firth than anything else). After my great disappointment in Emma, however, I was wary.

There was no need to be. P&P was just as good on this re-reading as it has been in years past. And, although it is so prosaic, at this point P&P is my favorite Austen novel.

Happy reading!