Another tuesday with nothing else to do… But today I am feeling much better than last week, plus I don’t do much mistakes like last week. I have quite nothing to do even though I could read the novel “Northanger Abbey” (coz I got it in my bag), so I decided to post something in my blog.
Recently I bought another classic novel, ‘Little Dorrit’ by Charles Dickens coz it was on sale at Kinokuniya bookshop. This is the novel which I have been waiting some times to buy, therefore when it was on 20% discount, I quickly bought it. I already read the plot summary on Wikipedia and I think the novel is worth reading, such as the work of Charles Dickens is always worth reading. The novel was put with the pile of other classic novels which I haven’t yet read he3.
I just finished reading ‘Emma’ and it is in my top 2 favourite books by Jane Austen with the first being ‘Pride and Prejudice’ of course. The heroine of the book, Emma Woodhouse, is quite witty, independent, busybody, charming and likes matchmaking but always bad at it. This faults of hers which make the story interesting and lively. Emma’s faults were often noticed by Mr. Knightley and he always told Emma what mistakes she has done. In the end, Emma grows more mature, more sensible, and her faults are decreasing. Of course she finds her ‘true love’ with someone she has always fancies but she never realizes till late.
There is one character which I don’t really like, Frank Churchill. He is always lively, charming, and often very funny and entertaining but he strikes me as selfish and annoying. He is always lucky, when he makes severe mistakes and his friends and families were offended by him, he apologizes quite sincerely to them and quite easily forgiven. He is indeed lucky and maybe I am kind of jealous of his good fortunes but I still don’t like his character.
There is many movies and TV adaptations of ‘Emma’ but I haven’t found them out till after I have read the novel. There is one movie adaptation of ‘Emma’ played by Gwyneth Paltrow on 1996 and I’ve been searching for the DVD recently. I think I should try the DVD rental shop near where I live. Have to borrow my bro’s DVD rental card first. I wanna look for ‘Sense and Sensibility’ too but I don’t really like that crybaby Marianne Dashwood but she will be played by Kate Winslet and I guess it’s gonna be a good movie if Kate Winslet starred in the movie.
Well… I will try my luck in finding the movie in the DVD rental shop. Fingers crossed!!! Although I doubt that they have them. Otherwise I have to buy the DVDs plus “Becoming Jane”.
