pickI can't believe we're at the end of ‘Then‘ books!
My answers in comments.
#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#PagesOfPersuasion
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pickI can't believe we're at the end of ‘Then‘ books!
My answers in comments.
#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#PagesOfPersuasion
pickAs lover of Jane Austen and member of Fictional Hangover's https://www.fictionalhangover.com/ Vampire Book Club I definitely had to read Jane and the Damned.
I think author did a good job of mixing Jane and Vampires. Love story was bit silly, but enjoyable read. I'm putting Book 2 Blood Persuasion on my December reading tbr.
#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#PagesOfPersuasion
It's been a loooong year with this book! Kelly's ideas offer some real ups and downs- the undercurrent of violence and unrest in P&P, sure; but Northanger and the danger of pregnancy? Half siblings in Wickham and Darcy, Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax? I have to laugh. The chapter on Persuasion is bland by comparison, framing the novel as commentary on the uncertainty and malleability of all things, from great empires to the human heart. 👇👇👇
I completely re-did my December #BookspinBingo list once I saw the 2026 #TOBLonglist
I think I have it now. Books tagged in the comments.
Ch. 24 (Vol II, Ch XII) Conclusion. "She gloried in being a sailor‘s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance. THE END."
Read the final pages on the Book Porch with rain, cozy blanket, & a wee whiskey. Such a joy to reread a chapter a day.
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#pemberlittens
#janeaustenthenandnow
#pagesofpersuasion
Stopping for mid-morning tea and time to finish Deresiewicz's excellent reflections on Austen. I've always really enjoyed this book, and it was fun to read it this year chapter by chapter after each associated work. In Persuasion, he focuses on the meaning of friendship and chosen family. After all, Anne didn't have much love from her family circle but "she found, at Lyme, what she did not know she'd been searching for: something to belong to."
#BookReport
I‘ve finished Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow earlier today
I just finished the last page of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
#WeeklyForecast
Continue The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Next up is The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea
pickThis gorgeous Cranford edition saw me through the last week of Persuasion, through the necessary tedium of Mrs. Smith's backstory and into the sheer stomach-churning joy of Wentworth's letter. Truly, nothing I've ever read in any romance comes close to the power of that entire chapter, culminating with *the greatest* letter any man, fictional or living, has ever put to paper. Do not fight me on this, I will live happily in the hyperbole forever!
Chapter 23 (Volume II, Chapter 11) "The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to Miss A. E." - Persuasion
I love this Signet Classic mass market in my collection. ✉️
#pemberlittens
#janeaustenthenandnow
#pagesofpersuasion
Only one more chapter!
pickA book about second chances & love that survives
8 yrs ago Anne Elliot was advised by friends and family to turn the proposal of Captain Wentworth since he didn‘t have enough money. Now things have changed, the Elliot‘s is letting out their home to live in Bath for awhile. There Anne meets her lost love again
& off course as in any Austen, there‘s complications and someone isn‘t as nice as they seem to be
#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow
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I must confess, on first reading as a young woman it didn't speak to me the way that Pride and Prejudice did. 30 years later I revisited after reading on Modern Mrs Darcy Blog https://modernmrsdarcy.com/ that it was a perfect fall read. My older eyes saw its beauty.⬇️
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3️⃣ The Letter! I swoon every time.
4️⃣ Obviously the letter but also “But I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”⬇️
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