Emma

Clueless es de mis pelis favoritas, me encantó leer las escenas e identificar a qué momento de la película correspondían

También me pareció muy encantador leer los chismes de personas ajenas, y el proceso mental de Emma respecto a esos chismes y el descubrimiento de sus propios sentimientos

Emma is literally just a girl

Hilarious, when has a female character thrived like this

Der Roman handelt von der Liebesgeschichte zweier Schwestern, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, sowie von deren Familien und Bekanntschaften. Außerdem geht es um Missverständnisse, Intrigen und Lügen.

Jane Austens Romane sind einfach herrlich! Ich habe die Zeit mit dem Buch sehr genossen, einfach ein Bündel von feel good vibes. Hier und da war es etwas langatmig, aber das fand ich nicht allzu schlimm.

After reading Pride and Prejudice, I wanted to read more of Jane Austen's work. A friend of mine gifted me 'Emma' back in 2019, but at about 5% of the book, I DNFed it. I could not handle Emma at all. She annoyed me greatly. I might pick it up again further down the road.

liked it more than pride and prejudice solely because the characters are funnier and more likable. Emma is THE girl, her character arc is amazing, sensible, relatable, though she made mistakes at times but she always was fully aware of it. and she grew so much from her mistakes, love her. Mr.Knightly could be more present in the story, it annoyed me that he was just starting to become more significant towards the end. Descriptions of him and Emma being close was not that convincing since they interacted so little throughout the book. Not the most charming character. The rest of them were decent, funny, but i couldn't remember any of their names and who they were except for the main three couples. Overall a very slow book. Romance started quite late. But other than that it's an entertaining series of events. People come and go and talked and danced. Almost mundane, which is to be expected, but guess there weren't much to do back then except gossiping and talking about your own feelings.

RIP emma you would've loved being chronically online and watching emma chamberlain

Actual rating 2.5 ⭐️

I liked it but it was slow

I listened to this as an audiobook!

I love Jane Austen's writing, she was witty and ahead of her time. I think the story, while listening on audiobook, can get a little long-winded. But generally, Austen includes a lot of detail in her writing.

I actually haven't seen or read anything about Emma before, so this was totally new to me and I'm pleasantly surprised!

** spoiler alert ** Follow Emma through her journey to find a husband to Harriet, her friend! Emma will also give us her view upon marriage, letting us dive into questioning on friendship, relationship and neighborhood relations. Will Emma find her own place? I really enjoyed reading this book. It was honestly my first Jane Austen’s book so I wasn’t familiar with her writing. I had questions all along the book and still had questions at the end but I think that it is good. The book and Jane Austen’s writing give us the opportunity to think about marriage during Austen’s time and also today. It also gives us the opportunity to think about friendship (between men and women, women and women, men and men), family dynamics (death of Emma’s mother, the place of her father, her own place in her family for example), the place in society (the example of Harriet but also Miss Taylor, a governor marrying a man and so changing her status) but also relation with the neighborhood (how people saw Frank Churchill at first, the first impression on Jane). I really love how the book deals with a lot of different things and even if it is from a romantic author, I think it can be seen as realistic. Some struggles the characters encounter, in their own period of time, can be a mirror of our own struggles in our own society. It is as if the book is intemporal even though the setting is not the same as our current period and society. I had some hard moments with different characters and I didn’t understand them all (I still don’t understand why Jane and Frank decided to not speak about their engagement nor understand why Harriet didn’t tell Emma earlier about her feelings for Mr. Knightley and I don’t always understand Emma’s actions) but overall, I think they are all really interesting and they all bring something new, fresh and a reflection upon the book and the different topics. I also think it is quite interesting to view all the different type of “happily ever after”. It is always with a wedding, true, but the characters experience a different type of wedding and their own are not the same. I think it was great to see that even the end of a story can have multiple happily ever after. If we were to do a retelling where Emma did not marry Mr. Knightley, could we have had considered it a “happily ever after”? I think so because she would have had been happy either way. In the end what matters the most for it to be a happily ever after it is if the characters are happy more than our own vision of this sentence.

Last summer I had been watching the BBC versions of Jane Austen’s books. Then I realized… I’ve only ever read Pride & Prejudice! That was kind of a huge bummer, especially since I call myself a book worm. So I decided I should fix that… So I picked up Emma by Jane Austen and jumped right in. Except it wasn’t so much as jumping in; it was more of a trudging through incredibly heavy, sticky mud. While language doesn’t typically bother me, the mood I was in at the time made it so I just couldn’t face the English. I got maybe 40 pages in before I was starting to force myself to read two pages a night. Eventually I just gave up on trying. I wanted to read “candy books”, which are books you could read in a day or two, but don’t really take much effort on the reader’s part to finish. And that surprised me a little, because out of the film and BBC versions of Austen’s books, Emma is my favourite!! So why wouldn’t I want to read something that I already knew I would like? With the start of the new year, I was filled with renewed determination. I would finish Emma! I managed to fly through it this time. It’s something we talk about at work a fair amount, is that you definitely need to be in the mood for certain books. And if you’re not in the mood to read it, you’re best to put it down and try something else. Emma turned out to be better than I had been expecting! The problem with film versions is that so many of the nuances and character development need to be cut out to keep the films to a reasonable length. Reading Emma gives you much more development between Emma and Mr. Knightley that it surprised me. There are nuances in the story that simply get lost when it’s put on the screen, but that are definitely needed to help give the story that added kick in the bum! I will say, though, that the latest BBC version does a fabulous job translating the book to the screen. Much better than the film version. Emma gets three and a half stars, and only loses half a star because I couldn’t get into it the first time. But since there are no half stars here, it gets four! [Originally posted to A Novel Idea, February 8, 2011. ]

“I cannot make speeches Emma… If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, I have lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.” 6/10

Yappy ass

It's a very nice light hearted book. This novel is so reflective of society, and it was really entertaining to read, however, I didn't feel invested in the story nor the characters. I love Mr. Knightley though. The way he corrects Emma for her to improve, and it showed how much he cares about her. When he said, “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more," I wanted to SOB. That line is probably one of the most romantic lines I have ever read.

Most books that I read are mysteries with satisfying endings because you find out "whodunnit". Emma gives that same satisfaction in reading that mystery novels do, even though the events are fairly mundane and commonplace, not flashy, complex murders. In my opinion, that's Jane Austen's real skill: taking ordinary characters in ordinary contexts and making satisfying, fun reads out of them. I really enjoy this book and all the characters. It's interesting to read other reviews and see how people hate on Mr. Woodhouse, Miss Bates, and Emma. Of course, if you read them seriously, Mr. Woodhouse is selfish, Miss Bates is extremely annoying and Emma is painfully vain. But if you read the book with the understanding that Mr. Woodhouse and Miss Bates are ridiculous and funny and that Emma is just a naive, young girl, then they are much more enjoyable to read. Personally, I love that the heroine of this story is heavily flawed. She makes mistakes throughout the book which make her more realistic and also enable her to grow as a character. Both her flaws and her character development make her a more interesting character than if she had been less conceited and less naive. And let's be honest, if not for her flaws, this story wouldn't be a story at all.

Loved this and Mr. Knightley. Further proof that I will always and forever be a Jane Austen stan.

my rating is probably biased but whatever lol i don't know if it's because i've been primed to think so, but emma is so relatable... my mom gifted me this book in 2016 and she kept on telling me that i reminded her of emma woodhouse.. i think it was her way of telling me to stop being so meddlesome and i sincerely want to believe that i've matured a little since then. emma is oblivious but also self-aware, so well-meaning but also so quick to judge... she's so real

the emotional intelligence and understanding of human behaviour in jane austen's books will never stop amazing me

unfortunately couldn’t stop thinking abt clueless while reading.

Geçen yaz Zeynep Ocak’ın etkisinde kalıp yemek yerken bitirdiğim 5 sezon Downton Abbey olmasa çok anlamsız gelecek bir kitaptı, ancak dönem kafada doğru oturtulduğu zaman keyifli bir romandı. Kitabın 2/3’ü karakterleri tanımak dışında vakit kaybı olsa da, son kısımları merak ve keyifle okuduğumu söyleyebilirim. Kaldı ki ilk 50-70 sayfada hikayenin sonunu tahmin etmiş olmamın yanı sıra yazarın sanki hiç tahmin edemezmişiz gibi tüm olayları açığa çıkarmasını da “seni şeytaan” diye alaya alıyorum. Dönem işi seviyorsanız okuyabilirsiniz, bazı yerleri eliniz otomatik atladığından çok sıkmaz. Ama birine de mutlaka oku diye tavsiye etmem.

i wish there were words that could sum up all the feelings i feel when i read this book. one of the most beloved couples in literature for me, nothing could express the size of my affection for this masterpiece, nor for my beloved lizzy and darcy. i will still read pride and prejudice again over the course of the year, and again, i will have the chance to feel all those sensations that only this book can cause in me.

emma, a bright young woman who leads a number of romantic mishaps due to her foolish believe in her ability to match people. she means well for her friends’ happiness, but constantly molds their views and beliefs into her own liking. she imposes her own ideas upon them making them believe that it would make them happy. a very delightful and enjoyable read but the first half was dragging. this is making me watch clueless instead.

I freaking love this book

this is officially my favorite jane austen novel. teenage me probably would have hated this one for being, i don’t know, “low brow”? but at my current age i find it honest and heartening. love it so much.