The ninety-third book: #1015 Persuasion - Jane Austen
I have to ask myself whether part of the reason I've been struggling with really getting back into the books list are the romance novels of this era. I've enjoyed Austen well in her earlier works, but for some reason Persuasion didn't connect. Part of that might be is because, as with Mansfield Park, our protagonist doesn't feel as involved in the narrative of the start of the work, and the destitution storyline feels like something we've seen before, while dealing with stubborn characters I didn't connect with. I never quite got caught up and the romance story, usually such a strong throughline, fell by the wayside in favour of family issues I didn't really feel. The work tries, sure, but it never quite grabbed me, and so the pay offs that are there didn't reach me either.