Persuasion

I was ready to write this off as boring. Persuasion has been the only Austen novel that I really struggled through, so I went on to Good Reads to see what it is that these Jane Austen groupies liked about it, and though I am not swayed in my opinion. I will never ever ever read it again, I found it endearing that they read such beauty into it.

It was about an aging (27, wow! What a geezer.) woman who was in love with a man in her prime (teen years, it is all down hill from there) that she was persuaded not to marry, blah blah blah years go by and they get together. I think I sleep-read the last 100 pages. It was so boring and I knew the outcome (as do you now, sorry) so it was just agony.

I am 70 pages into Curious Incident...I like it so far, but you know my feelings about reading autistic narrators from the Animals in Translation fiasco, so I am starting a back up. Clan of the Cave Bear,

My boyfriend puts this book in the same category as heroin. He worked at a bookstore for years and likes to relate stories of the ladies scrambling into the store with glazed eyes and foaming lips begging for Jean Auel to come out with a new book. I never really wanted to read this book, but if it comes up my friends do get glossy eyes, so if I like it that much than surely I can make easy work of it and its sequels.

I do remember the scary cave man humping in the movie from the 80's, but that is the only part I remember.