Imani ♥ ☮'s Reviews > Mansfield Park

I started reading Mansfield Park, in part because I wanted to better enrich myself with English classics. I tried reading Pride & Prejudice and couldn't finish that so I was like, well maybe I'll like something a little less catty instead.

Jane Austen isn't for the faint of heart and I know most people know this. The problem with her, for me, is the fact that the synopsis reads as if it will be light chick lit but, as it is written in the 18th century, it becomes similar to that of a reading of Shakespeare or Tolstoy or something equally taxing. Reading taxing literature is fine if there's like some really profound story underneath but when you have a plot about a mouse, poorly treated Cinderella-esque girl named Fannie living with her mean cousins and in her love with the one nice cousin she has it's just like: Can't I be using this effort for something more useful?

Which is what I am in doing, in taking this off my currently-read shelf. Someday there is a place for this book and I. Not now, however.