Persuasion

I read Persuasion by Jane Austen for my book club. The book description says, "At twenty-­seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel."

I am not really a fan of this type of book, and I will admit it was a challenge to push myself through this one. I don't really get the disparity of how some people love Jane Austen book so, so much and yet to me, her books are pretty boring and hard to follow. Clearly I'm missing the boat but alas. I think I just don't read books like this enough for me to follow the content easily, so I kept having to refer to cliff notes to make sure I wasn't missing something. At book club, we did get to discuss some of the funny characters (like Anne's sister Mary) and the things in the book that tie into our world today. But overall, not really my kind of book.

Rating: * (1/3 = It was okay)