Accomplished Woman

I decided to begin my journey of accomplishment by choosing what for me may be the easiest: "Reader", although according to Mr. Darcy, it could be the most important. There are 5 parts to the Reader challenge: Read (at least) 6 books over a period of three months Include at least one fiction, one biography and one non-fiction in your selection Write a review of one of the books Read a review of another book, and critique it Take part in a book club Here I will also note that any books I have previously read may not count towards this accomplishment. The challenge begins from today, and to ensure an appropriate challenge, I have begun with a novel I've tried (and failed) to read several times before: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It is a tome, but strangely satisfying. I shall endeavour to update my daily progress.

"It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are." "All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?" "Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know anyone who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished." "Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished." "Nor I, I am sure," said Miss Bingley. "Then," observed Elizabeth, "you mu...