![]() ![]() It happens to be long enough to also qualify for Sue’s Big Book Summer Reading Challenge (reading books of 400 or more pages). So, I decided to read Mansfield Park for Austen in August. How can you not remember reading a novel? My grandmother and aunt kindly explained that if you read a lot and live long enough, you just can’t remember everything you’ve read. She couldn’t remember if she’d read a certain novel when her daughter, my Auntie Sandy, asked her about it. ![]() I was just a kid, maybe still in the single digits. It made me question my own sanity (I was also reading Poe).īut then I recalled a conversation that I had had decades ago with Grandma Wolak. After reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel Fanshawe, I turned to my journal to record my reaction and discovered I had already read it! Such a weird experience. ![]() This first happened to me back in the ’90s when I was in grad school reading for comp exams. Now, it could be that I have read the novel in the past and simply do not remember. When Paul and Trevor talked about Mansfield Park, nothing rang a bell. ![]() For those of you who listen to my podcast, you know that I was surprised to realize, while listening to The Mookse and the Gripes‘ podcast discussion of Jane Austen’s novels, that perhaps I had not read Mansfield Park. This month I read Mansfield Park for probably the first time. Today is the last day of Austen in August, the annual reading (and watching) celebration of all things Jane Austen, hosted by Adam of Roof Beam Reader. ![]()
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