EmnEllie Cross Stitch Blog

  Photo by Gwen King on Unsplash Have you ever picked up a book so good that you couldn’t bear to put it down? That was me recently with Northanger Abbey. I finished it in about three days, but that’s not a testament to my reading speed (I read at a snail’s pace). It was with me at meals, was with me as I dozed off at night, and was with me in every spare moment I had throughout the course of my day. I had never read it before or watched an adaptation of it. But I did know some things about it that intrigued me, so that, plus the fact that it was written by one of my favorite authors, made me decide to give it a try. It was fantastic. For those three days, my thoughts were like this (spoiler alert, just skip this list if you haven’t read the book yet): Catherine, you’re adorable. Henry Tilney is great, but yikes, I don’t like the General. Thorpe, you’re actually the worst. Udolpho this, Udolpho that. Catherine, get it together. Why did I wait so long to read this? November has gr...