{"id":433,"date":"2015-08-21T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/21\/sense-and-sensibility\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:04:33","slug":"sense-and-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/21\/sense-and-sensibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense and Sensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"books--Jane<\/a><\/div>\n

I read Sense and Sensibility<\/i> again. For what is probably the 999th time, give or take a few hundred. \u00a0I love Jane Austen. \u00a0I feel like I have to clarify things here. \u00a0I have loved Jane Austen since before loving Jane Austen was cool. \u00a0Since before all the movies, merchandise, and fan fiction. \u00a0Sometimes I feel like the whole world has come along and taken over something I really love. \u00a0It is a crazy way to think, I know that, but still…I loved Jane Austen before loving her was cool. \u00a0Though I am pretty sure saying “cool” is not cool and I am showing my age.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I was reading Sense and Sensibility<\/i> again I thought about how timeless Austen is. \u00a0So many books written a few hundred years ago never let you forget you are reading an old novel. \u00a0When I read Jane Austen’s books time doesn’t really matter. \u00a0The story is just as true today as it was when it was written. \u00a0It is just as heart-wrenching and just as witty. \u00a0It is impossible not to feel for Marianne in her conviction that her opinions are set and will never alter. Who does not remember their opinionated teenage years? \u00a0Your heart aches for the realities of life ahead for her but you can’t help smiling because it is all so familiar. \u00a0I laughed at the line where Marianne says that “a woman of seven and twenty…can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.” \u00a0Didn’t we all once think life was over at 18? And I loved the description of Willoughby departing “to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.” Frequently it is the little lines I really enjoy. \u00a0The few words of a description or the words that show you the feelings of a character. \u00a0Jane Austen is a master at using those few words to accomplish much.<\/p>\n

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I know I am not saying anything new about Sense and Sensibility,<\/i> but I just love reading it. \u00a0And then I want to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read Sense and Sensibility again. For what is probably the 999th time, give or take a few hundred. \u00a0I love Jane Austen. \u00a0I feel like I have to clarify things here. \u00a0I have loved Jane Austen since before loving Jane Austen was cool. \u00a0Since before all the movies, merchandise, and fan fiction. \u00a0Sometimes I feel like the whole world has come along and taken over something I really love. \u00a0It is a crazy way to think, I know that, but still…I loved Jane Austen before loving her was cool. \u00a0Though I am pretty sure saying “cool” is not cool and I am showing my age. Anyway, when I was reading Sense and Sensibility again I thought about how timeless Austen is. \u00a0So many books written a few hundred years ago never let you forget you are reading an old novel. \u00a0When I read Jane Austen’s books time doesn’t really matter. \u00a0The story is just as true today as it was when it was written. \u00a0It is just as heart-wrenching and just as witty. \u00a0It is impossible not to feel for Marianne in her conviction that her opinions are set and will never alter. Who does not remember their opinionated teenage years? \u00a0Your heart aches for the realities of life ahead for her but you can’t help smiling because it is all so familiar. \u00a0I laughed at the line where Marianne says that “a woman of seven and twenty…can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.” \u00a0Didn’t we all once think life was over at 18? And I loved the description of Willoughby departing “to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.” Frequently it is the little lines I really enjoy. \u00a0The few words of a description or the words that show you the feelings of a character. \u00a0Jane Austen is a master at using those few words to accomplish much. I know I am not saying anything new about Sense and Sensibility, but I just love reading it. \u00a0And then I want to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-jane-austen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}