Tag: Persuasion

• Five books that changed the way I read

  Some books you read, and then you just sort of forget; they don’t make any difference in your life. Some you think about for a while after, but then they fade from your memory and you move on to the next thing. But there are some books that just get their hooks into you and […]

  Lizzi

  January 17, 2022

  Articles, Comment, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Personal, Reviews

  20th Century, Alone in Berlin, Biography, Daphne du Maurier, Daphne DuMaurier, Donna Tartt, Fiction, GoodReads, Hans Fallada, Hardback, History, Jane Austen, Jenny Williams, Julius, Literature, Little Man What Now, Lord of the Flies, More Lives Than One, My Cousin Rachel, Non Fiction, Paperback, Penguin, Penguin English Library, Persuasion, Rebecca, Sarah Waters, Second World War, The Goldfinch, The Paying Guests, The Secret History, William Golding

• Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

  I still have two more Jane Austen novels to read but I have wanted to read Emma for the longest, and wanted to read it the most, if that makes sense. Ever since I learned that one of my favourite films, Clueless, was loosely based on it, Emma has loomed large on my TBR. After […]

  Lizzi

  July 15, 2018

  Fiction, Reviews

  1800s, Classic fiction, Emma, Fiction, Historical fiction, Jane Austen, Paperback, Penguin, Penguin English Library, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice