#litsylove #litsyloveblitz My oldest letter to respond to is about 3 months back, but I have decided once again to send every LitsyLove member a postcard, so my letter writing will be further delayed. I'm happy with the idea, though, so hopefully this goes smoothly 😜
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#litsylove progress today is slower than planned, but I got through February, and I'm now replying to mail from March! 😁 #SlowMailisBetterThanNoMail
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Thank you so much @quietjenn I am so looking forward to curling up with a blanket and this chunkster this winter! Thank you for the yummy chocolate which is at home because my Dad is not to be trusted around chocolate. 🤣 #JolabokaflodSwap
Thank you for organizing this again @MaleficentBookDragon
pickHow to you summarize a book that 1500+ p? Without spoiling anything? I went into this not knowing anything and I think that‘s a good idea.
One thing that‘s for sure, is that I won‘t look at a rake in the same way again. In romance novels/ movies that have this romantic air about them. After reading this, I know there‘s nothing romantic about them
And also, your true friends are the ones that stay with you in the hardest of times
#pemberlittens #janeadjacent #hashtagbrigade @StayCurious @BarkingMadRead
I've had an idea! Because we're doing Don Quixote (DQ) at the beginning of next year, it might be good to read this alongside/just after it? It's 464 pages - 559 pages shorter than DQ, so it could start in the second month of the DQ buddy read. It would be a good comparison piece to both DQ and Jane Austen - and I don't mind hosting it if you think it's a good idea!
#BookReport
I‘m still buddy reading Clarissa and we are no well into volume 6 of 9.
I‘ve just started a new buddy read, a chapter a day of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
I‘m still reading Islands of Abandonment
I‘ve read The Enchanted April, volume 4 of Orange and Still Born
I‘m currently reading Blonde Roots
pickThis collects two of Haywood's "amatory" novels: in "The Injur'd Husband" (1722), a rich libertine baroness plots to seduce an innocent young gentleman. In "Lasselia" (1723), a meek and chaste woman falls instantly and madly in love with a married man when - IANMTU - he nosebleeds on her. These are precursors to modern romance novels, but they feel like sex comedies from another planet and I think I'm in love with Eliza Haywood
