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P&P is my first Austen's book and S&S the second.
Finished Chapter 10 of S&S and found many similarities between them.
Thoughts?

There are so many similarities! I'm just going to copy&paste one part of my review:
"All the character seemed exactly the same as in Pride and Prejudice though, we've got the emotional middle sister, her rather emotional and maternal mother, the older sister with sense and courtesy and the little sister no one cares about, meeting loud and eccentric or quiet and distant or utterly evil and hostile ladies and also some different men who happen to fall in love with the two older sisters."

I didn't feel like reading something new when reading S&S after reading P&P. But I have my hopes up high for her other books like Emma or Northanger Abbey, which escape the traditionality altogether and seem to have stronger and more independent female characters.
S&S is still worth reading though! I really love Jane Austen's way of looking at different kind of personalities and it definitely is entertaining to read S&S.

Saskia wrote: "There are so many similarities! I'm just going to copy&paste one part of my review:
"All the character seemed exactly the same as in Pride and Prejudice though, we've got the emotional middle siste..."

Thanks Saskia, yes, I like the way Jane Austen put some mysteries (somebody changed colour at a letter and then had to leave for example lol) and then gradually all the puzzles would be resolved in the end. That's why I'm now still reading S&S.

But may read something else after S&S.

There are definitely a lot of similarities! I don't want to give away any spoilers since I don't know if you have read further than chapter ten yet, but I have often thought myself that they seemed to be very similar. They both have strong female leads, there is a scoundrel that someone falls for in both, and they both focus around sisters just to name a few. I think the fact that I see so many similarities in these may be in part because they were both written in the same time period by the same author, therefore, they have incredibly similar writing styles so its easier to pick up on. All in all, they are both amazing books that well worth the read! Its not often I can go back and read a book multiple times over, but these are both some of those select few. Each time you read them you can pick up more and more small tidbits and similarities.

Yes, the plots are similar, Jane Austen could have made them into ONE novel. Yet, she did not, so, there must have been good reasons for it.

One of the good reasons, I am sure, is the opening of the story: Mrs John Dashwood persuades her husband not give his sisters anything. I am certain Jane Austen herself felt this was too good to give up!

In P&P, Elizabeth’s emotion to Darcy changes, but, it happened rather quicker, persuaded by the good reasons in Darcy’s letter. Marianne on the other hand, it was more gradual, which, I like it.

S&S also contains some interesting things, but in a very small way -
I like Elinor’s observation in Mr. Palmer, and Mrs. Jennings did not wish her daughter to marry Colonel Brandon. How interesting!