I'd rather be locked in a room with 100 Janeites debating Mansfield Park ("the Fanny Wars") than look at this again. I started out thinking I'd be reading another in the recent plethora of "how I was an asshole but became enlightened because of X" memoirs. And it is. Except the author never stops...
Amazing. I can't wait to read it again. Totally bummed. Expected something different............
Excellent Sheep is a compelling case for a liberal arts education and a reform of the higher education system. It is more opinion based than fact based but still remains mostly objective. Lots of good personal stories and examples are included. I feel like the book discounts the intensity of an I...
This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected iss...
It was the first time I had had a place of my own, and I could almost feel my arms and legs getting longer with all the psychological space I had to move around in. I got a platform for my futon, bought a nice set of chairs at a stoop sale down the street, even picked up some plants and learned h...