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3⭐️ Leonora Eyre is anything but a plain Jane, which makes the nod to Brontë‘s heroine a fascinating puzzle. This self-aware, middle-aged spinster is caught in a web of one-sided love triangles. However, the novel‘s reliance on her relationship with the young James to define her feels like a missed opportunity. Given Leonora‘s formidable nature, I wished for a more direct portrayal that allowed her strong character to command the stage.

I reaaaally don't rate Brand as highly as some people do. There's something so mean about her writing, I think. Not just the homophobia, but the way she writes about unattractive or less intelligent or poor women.

I'm not the biggest fan of Christianna Brand in general, but oof, the homophobia in this one. And I don't remember Charlesworth being quite such an ass in the other books he features in (though I don't like him).

Yeah, I'm mostly just reading this to be completionist.

Amber thinks she‘s just stopping in for a quick visit with her godmother. Then she is swept into the overhaul of Cranberry Stores and feels like she has finally found her home. Her meeting with Josh was hazardous (they fell into the river 🤪), but they still warm up to each other. I felt the ending was abrupt in this meander to getting to know the village, but well worth the read. I really like getting to know the characters of the villages.

This graphic biography follows Jane Austen from 1796 until her importance today. Barchas is a Jane Austen scholar so while not everything told in book is known as facts, it is likely that Austen did it.

The illustrations are by Isabel Greenberg in her recognizable pen.

Every time the authors connect Jane's life to her fiction, they use much brighter, eye-catching colour. Here a visit to a stately home (might have) inspired Northanger Abbey.

Bio includes 🐣 from TV / movie adaptations too.
I got this one at least... (Colin Firth forever)

#Austen
#Pemberlittens

From the story 'Child's Play'

From the for-kids section of the book...

Asking for a friend...