About September last year I gave Pride and Prejudice a read and, honestly, did not like it. To me, the sentences were plain (hard) and the plot did not move so fast. However, my Year 5 teacher, and by far one of my two favourites, encouraged me to give it my all — in other words, another go. I dismissed the idea for over seven months, and now, went to the bookstore . . . I looked through classics, books by Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, the Bronte sisters. . . I saw the cover of Emma and Pride and Prejudice alongside Sense and Sensibility. I affectionately sniffed the pages of P&P, decided to buy it (the previous time I tried reading, I borrowed the book from a family friend) , then gazed at what seemed like a volume half the size of P&P.
“This will be an easier read, I suppose. It’s smaller, if I don’t like it I don’t have to read more. Just got to get through the relatively-thin book.” It’s a small volume, and I don’t mean that 200+ pages isn’t much (which, in my opinion, honestly isn’t) — rather, what I mean is it is a pocket-like paperback volume, KM Classics, and I am already 10 pages into it.
You might wonder what it’s called? Northanger Abby. So far, it reminds me of the style from The Little Women. Catherine seems like Beth to me, except that she is at first plump then slimms down, while it’s quite the opposite with seventeen-year-old Miss. Moreland. . .
Anyway, I thought I haven’t written a post for some time. It’s like a small reminder that “Hey, I’m still here!” And a thank-you to my dearest Grade 5 teacher, if you’re reading this (because I know you read my review for Little Women, I think, last year) — then please know I’m so blissfuly glad at you for finding me writing competitions, encouraging me . . . Oh, also, shoutout to another teacher, she teaches me right now, Year 6. . . Anyway. Thanks everyone whose read my stories, given me feedback or just smiled . . . Ehhem. I’m done. Yo. Buye. kids.
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