"One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen."

William F. Buckley, Jr

This time of year, I can't explain it, but I am always drawn to re-read each and every one of Jane Austen's wonderful books. Maybe it's the approach of Valentine's Day, maybe it's the cold and snow-bound days that afford all of us more time to read (if we chose to let them) or then again maybe it's just a yearning to imagine for myself, however wistfully, a different lot in life; just as Jane's own main characters imagined for themselves.

*List of Jane Austen's books...Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey.