I've still made no progress in Emma

BUT! I have gone through Mansfield Park a second time, and I liked it more than the first. I must say, so many people don't like Fanny Price, but I do. I get her. She's shy. She's timid. She's pretty much afraid of people and of being noticed. There's nothing wrong with that. Yes, she can be a little annoyingly perfect and self-righteous, but that doesn't bother me.

Who bothers me is Edmund Bertram. Ugh. What an insufferable, righteous, dolt. He takes so much pride in doing good and judging those whose character he deems poor, yet he treats Fanny pretty shitty throughout the book. Ugh. So my least favorite Austen hero. Mr. Knightley gets shit for being about his lectures and whatnot, but Edmund Bertram definitely is way worse in MY book.

And I wish Fanny and Henry Crawford had worked it out. I think they would have been good for each other. Mr. Crawford would have treated Fanny like a queen, and she was such a good influence on his bad-boy self. Plus, they're sex life would have been AMAZING. No way are Fanny and Edmund having fulfiilling sex. No way. He's way moral for that kind of fun stuff.