Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

B1: Written by Nobel Laureate
B2: Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic
B3: Classic of Africa
B4: Children's Classic The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) [Read: 3/27/16]
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize [Man Booker Prize-UK] The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) [Read: 1/25/16]

I1: Published/Written Before 1600’s
I2: New-to-You Author
I3: Classic Play
I4: Banned Book
I5: Published in the 1700's

N1: Classic of the Americas
N2: Short Story Collection
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Poetry Collection
N5: Classic of Europe

G1: Published in the 1600's
G2: Book from Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century
G3: Classic Non-fiction
G4: Classic from School
G5: Published in the 1800's -Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1811) [Read: 3/20/16]

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region
O2: Gothic Classic
O3: Classic of Asia or Oceania
O4: Mystery or Crime Classic
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author

Welcome to the challenge, Dara. I hope you have fun with this.

Best of luck with your challenge!

Hi and welcome to the challenge! Did you enjoy Sense and Sensibility? I only recently read all of Austen's main novels and enjoyed them, although this one wasn't my favourite.

Thank you Kathy and Andrea! I'm definitely excited to see what I end up reading, since I decided not to plan it all out ahead of time.

Hi Pink! I definitely would have to agree with you on that. I've only read Pride and Prejudice and S&S so far, but I'm assuming this one is probably not as well crafted as her others. P&P had such great pacing and a good flow to it compared to S&S, but I think it's one of the first ones she wrote so that makes sense. And the ending was pretty silly. It was still a pleasant and funny read, though. I'm glad I read it.

Thanks for asking!

I know.i did not like either this one or mansfield park much.and emma i did not read.p&p and persuasion are among my favorites.and thanks to this Bingo i dinally read northanger abbey and loved it.

Good luck to u dee

Yeah, I think I'll try Persuasion or Emma next. It seems like a lot of people consider those two of her best. I haven't seen any movie adaptations of S&S, so I think I'm gonna watch the 1995 vs. and see what they did with the story.

Happy reading to you, Elena!

Maybe I´m little different since for me Persuasion and Emma are the least favorites. But it´s also little difficult to compare since I have read S&S and P&P so long ago (in my teens). And Persuasion I read last year and it´s now my least favorite. But haven´t still read Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park. They are on my list for this year!

My order of most to least favourite Austen is, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, Mansfield park, Emma. Although the first half of Mansfield park was probably my favourite of all, but the story let me down in the second half.