Northanger Abbey

Enjoyed this immensely even though the plot was mundane and had 3 different story arcs.

Small review:

This book is just Catherine having a field trip alone with different people. She just bounces from one place to another without a care. Ahh living the dream.Even though I saw the Isabella plot coming from miles away (like it was intended), it was so much fun to read it

I must say I liked this novel. This classic novel is Austen's Gothic parody. Catherine's love for reading the genre and over active imagination adds humor to the novel. There is a great scene where Catherine is snooping and unlocks the mysterious cabinet. Expecting to find something horrible, and finds only laundry bills. You feel embarrass for her but she has to fall a few more times before she learns to control her imagination. Northanger Abbey also deals with situations common to teenagers today. Catherine learns lessons of peer pressure, bullying, and reading people. I was angry by the Thorpe's manipulative, and ambitious ways but, by the end of the novel, Catherine learns to read people.

Favorite Quote: “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not the pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”