Words, Words, Words

I took a "what's your reading personality" quiz the other day.  I've always considered myself a bit of a book fiend, but seem to have trouble actually sitting down and reading lately.  Maybe I'm reading the wrong books.  Anyway, being somewhat addicted to these ridiculous quizzes, I just had to find out what my personality was.  In spite of the rather limited options for answers, my result was fairly accurate.  I got the book "aesthete".  Basically, it doesn't matter what I read, all I care about is how it was written.  It could be a poem or a play, a three volume tome or a short story, a romance or a tragedy, comedy or reality, if it is written well, I will read it.  I love the idea of that.  I've always loved words.  When I was in school, I would cover my notebooks with favorite stanzas from poems, quotes from plays, and paragraphs from books.  I have memorized "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" so T.S. Eliot's words are never far from my heart when I need them.  I want to cover my body with tattoos of words, to become the notebooks I tattooed as a student.

I wanted to set this up because I'm planning on doing a series of posts about book related things.  The posts will be about writing (of course), character development, and the art of fandom on different levels.  But I thought it would be good to let you know where I'm coming from as a reader first, not a writer, I want to be clear about that.  For some reason, I give off this writer vibe.  But I'm not, that's my sister (see the post about shameless sister promotion).

If you'd like to take the quiz yourself, here's the link.  Beware of ads, why Oprah needs ads on her site, I'll never know.  Also, there's an option at the end to click through each personality to see how you ranked.  I enjoyed that.

My Result

A Purist View

After watching Death Comes to Pemberley, I've come to the conclusion that I am a Jane Austen purist, not a Jane Austen enthusiast.  I wanted to throttle the powers that be for what they did to Col. Fitzwilliam's character.  I discussed it with a friend of mine, who did enjoy the show, and then I recalled that she also enjoyed the atrocity known as Lost in Austen.   Hence, my conclusion that I must be a purist.  And she clearly will take any form of Austen, no matter how outlandish, therefore, an enthusiast.

So this is a rant post.  Just a small one though.

The incredible injustice they do to the character of Colonel Fitzwilliam is inexcusable.  When he was the only member of that family to treat Lizzy with the respect she deserved from the first!  The treatment he gets from her in Death Comes to Pemberley makes no sense in comparison to Pride and Prejudice.   And then to see him transformed into an arrogant asshole, it's really beyond the pale.

This is my Colonel!  Don't you even mess with him.