Showing posts with label Jane Austen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Austen. Show all posts

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Just more proof, I should be living in a different era

I'm really a middle aged woman at heart. You could probably tell this solely from my fashion decisions. Today, I'm wearing a green top with puffy shoulders and cuffed capris with black scandals. It is even more evident when I'm having coffee with my vibrantly dressed roomie or my young at heart best friend (who says she acts like a grandma, but I tend to disagree).

I watch television with my mother, an actual middle aged woman. I actually go shopping with my mom and tell her what would look best, and we share clothes from time to time. This is odd because we have different body types and I'm a good four inches taller than she is. She borrows my clothes mostly come to think of it.

I like James Taylor and Carole King along with other musicians that usually find on the play list of the Baby-Boomers. I actually went to the Troubadour Reunion Tour for JT and CK, and I was one of the few young adults there.

I read classic literature more than works recently published. My two favorite authors are Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen both who worked in the nineteenth century for the most part. I have a thing for vintage things that I can't explain, because I have this weird aversion to previously used things (but that's a different crazy story for a different boring time).

I like more youthful things as well, but for the most part I prefer things that my parents seem to enjoy. I'm just missing the wisdom and maturity that comes with these refined tastes of mine.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Jane

I spent the whole day watching movies about Jane Austen and "writing a paper." I realized that I either want my romantic life to mirror one of her novels or to have a fraction of her writing ability. I won't lie, I have only read Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey, while I am currently reading Emma.

I love Jane Austen. I envy the way she writes. Although, she is an exceptional authoress I tend to adore most writers of her time. I like the norm of talking in those days. I sometimes wonder if I was born in the proper century. I guess I'll have live with what I got.

I can admire and not be with little to no hostility.