In August of this year I started a project with the goal of finally reading Jane Austen’s Persuasion. I have owned this book for over a decade and in that time have tried to read it with no success. The exact number of times I couldn’t say, but I know it was at least 7 or 8, and each time I would get only a few chapters in before I would get bored and give up.

I still don’t know exactly what it was that made it so hard for me to get into Persuasion, especially since I love all of Austen’s other work, and probably I never will know.

However, I set a New Year’s goal for finally reading Persuasion in 2017 and about halfway through the year decided it was time to make that happen. Thus, the Persuasion Project was started. I knew I couldn’t sit down and read it in one sitting, so I decided to only make myself read a single chapter a week, which I would then post something about. I figured even if I hated every single chapter, at least when it was done I’d have accomplished a long-time goal.

• Week 1  –  Volume I, Chapter I – III
• Week 2  –  Volume I, Chapter IV
• Week 3  –  Volume I, Chapter V
• Week 4  –  Volume I, Chapter VI
• Week 5  –  Volume I, Chapter VII
• Week 6  –  Volume I, Chapter VIII
• Week 7  –  Volume I, Chapter IX – XII
• Week 8  –  Volume II, Chapter I – II
• Week 9  –  Volume II, Chapter III
• Week 10 – Volume II, Chapter IV
• Week 11 – Volume II, Chapter V – XII
• Final Thoughts & Rating

I actually finished much sooner than expected, taking only 11 weeks instead of 22! Hurray! I have now read all of Jane Austen’s novels.