Book #10

I LOVED this book!! LOVE it a lot!! I stayed up until 12:15 a.m. Friday morning to finish reading it even though I had to be up for an early morning meeting!

"Claire Prescott doesn't understand Mr. Darcy's appeal. She's been comfortably dating Neil, a nice-if a bit negligent-sports fanatic. When she agrees to stand in for her sister at a Jane Austen seminar in Oxford, England, she finds herself holding a lost version of Pride and Prejudice. Scholars thought Austen's original manuscript was destroyed centuries ago, but as Claire reads the first draft, she uncovers a long-hidden secret about the iconic Darcy, as well as the truth about Austen's own struggle to find the right hero for Elizabeth Bennet.
And when a tall, dark, and dashing stranger crosses her path, will the staid Claire suddenly discover her inner Lizzie Bennet? Neil's unexpected arrival in Oxford complicates Claire's journey to finding her own romantic lead, and she discovers that finding the right hero can be more difficult that she ever imagined."
Here are just a few of my favorite parts from the book:

"The word courage, of course, comes from the French word coeur, or heart in English," Martin continued. "Austen shows us that it is in knowing one's heart that one may find the courage to overcome obstacles."

"Perhaps the hero wasn't born, but made. And perhaps a true heroine learned the difference only by having her heart broken along the way."

I think that the plot line of the story is great and the mystery of it all makes you want to keep going!! I don't think you have to be a Mr. Darcy fan to really enjoy this book!