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Emma

 Book Review: Emma


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐

"Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect."

~ From Goodreads ~

This was a tough one to read. It took some time to get used to the English. It took some time to be able to visualize the scenes. I had watched "Bridgerton" last month and that finally helped me gain interest again in this one with respect to the above-mentioned issues. 

I also discovered a library app that gave me a free version of this book in audio and ebook formats. It took all of the above factors to help me finish this book!

I didn't like Emma. Not the book, but the character. She is the exact sort of person that I thoroughly dislike. She thinks very highly of herself and her situations and very lowly of almost everyone and everything else. She also thinks it is ok to meddle in other's lives and affairs. A very overpowering, people manipulating busy body she is. 

The book itself is a gem of a read. The incidents and characters are so well written. Since it was a very long time ago, I am not going to comment on the absurdity of matchmaking according to class and such. The twists in the story are remarkable at times. You can almost call it a mystery on those terms. 

Maybe I should have read this while growing up. It would have helped me weed out quite a few busybodies from my life a long time ago. Girls, beware of the Emmas in your life. Her priorities and her life outweigh anything she feels or does for you. She is going to leave you stranded midway. 

Because this is a fictional story, it ended well for all parties concerned, albeit with so much unnecessary heartache. But in real life, things can be undone only if you are really really lucky! The ending left me feeling that Emma didn't deserve her happy ending. But then again, everyone makes mistakes. Right?

And it was perfect for the following Reading Prompts too: 

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021: A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign

Reading With Muffy: FEBRUARY- Slow Burn Romance



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  1. Modern Gypsy9 February 2021 at 09:14

    I had read this book years and years ago, and remember liking it then. Though I imagine it would be difficult to read now, with the old English and antiquated setting.

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    1. Jyothi10 February 2021 at 08:32

      I think I have tried reading classics like this before. Never could enjoy it, but this year I really wanted to read more of them.

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  2. Esha9 February 2021 at 14:47

    I read Emma in school as part of the classics and I'm afraid I wasn't particularly impressed by the story. Reading your review here just brought back so many memories of our weekly visits to the school library and the ensuing mischief we were upto those days!! . :)

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    1. Jyothi10 February 2021 at 08:37

      Wow! I wish we had such books to read as part of curriculum too. I think my kids had Shakespeare's "As you like it". At my school in Dubai, I had a textbook with short stories and poems for English at a CBSE school.

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  3. Corinne Rodrigues10 February 2021 at 16:07

    Emma is one of my favourite Jane Austen books after Pride and Prejudice.

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    1. Jyothi11 February 2021 at 08:25

      I am planning on reading Pride and Prejudice too this year.

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