Jane Austen always amazes me. This book was written over 200 years ago but it does not feel old at all. Jane Austen’s work deserves all the recognition and love that it gets. I highly recommend this one. It might be a new favorite- although I think I say that every time haha! 

My commentary below…

- 2% this is actually already quite funny. I had to pause to go read the synopsis since I didn’t bother to even read what it was about before starting. A humorous gothic parody sounds absolutely perfect for a fall read! I’m so glad it turned out that way 😂 I chose to read it now because the year is coming to an end and I need to reading a posthumously published book for the 52 book club reading challenge and this fits the bill 
- 6% I know I’ve felt this before, but it feels ever more dramatic in this case— I find it so interesting how… normal this seems. It doesn’t feel like a classic written over 200 years ago. It’s like this could have been written in the past 5 years as a historical romance. 
- 11% I love that they are book worms and buddy reading
- 31% Mr. Thorpe is an absolute asshole and I cannot stand him
- 37% honestly, this man. I cannot fucking stand him. How DARE he talk to Ms. Tilney on her behalf without approval. Assuming he actually spoke to her at all. After all, he lied about seeing them leaving town when she were previously engaged with the Tilney siblings to walk. Who is to say he isn’t lying again?
- She shouldn’t go with them out of spite
- They should abandon this family. They are a bunch of selfish arrogant assholes. The whole lot of them 
- 55% this dialogue between Captain Tilney and Ms Thorpe is very Shakespearean
- 66% “It is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible.” I really like this quote. It makes all my hobbies and hoarding of stupid things that bring me joy sound much better 
- 78% my first thought to Mr. Tilney realizing that Catherine had been imagining a great gothic mystery out of his mother’s death was that “great, this is why men think that women are overly excitable and shouldn’t be allowed to read novels and such. How could she be so crazy and how could she demean the entire female sex in such a way?” But thennnnn I thought of how I often get paranoid after reading or watching something creepy and feel the need to check behind the shower curtain etc and imagine things in the dark. I guess I’m not so different, after all 😅 I would like to think that I wouldn’t unintentionally turn a perfectly fine home into a creepy gothic mansion in my mind, but I just very well might if I had been reading a bunch of gothic horrors shortly before going to an old abbey 😂