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Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love | Rosie Rushton

Here are the retellings I'm hoping to tackle this month for the #JaneAustenThenAndNow read: spicy S&S in a beach town, an S&S murder mystery, a polarizing modern version, and three YA takes because dang it, I love YA. Authors Rosie Rushton and Staci Hart have adapted all of Austen's novels, and while I've read Rushton's before, Hart's are new to me. We'll see how this goes...! Anyone else out there looking for some S&S-adjacent reads for February?

Andrea313 #PemberLittens 14h

eeclayton I've read the Trollope, I'll be curious to see what you think. This month, I'm going to try

Jane of Austin: A Novel of Sweet Tea and Sensibility

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Bookwormjillk I‘m going to read the Trollope. I read it when it first came out but I want to read it again. 10h

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Andrea313 @eeclayton @Bookwormjillk Did you like the Trollope? Reviews online are mixed so I'm not sure what to expect! And I definitely want to hear @eeclayton 's thoughts on Jane of Austin! I'm curious about it, but too many books and too little time... 5h

bookandbedandtea These all look good! I have one overlap on my list. 5h

Andrea313 @bookandbedandtea Which one will we both be reading? 5h

Crinoline_Laphroaig Oooh. I like this list. Also think S&S lends itself to YA. 5h

bookandbedandtea

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

Andrea313 @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, definitely! A roadmap for "coming of age" stories. 4h

Andrea313 @bookandbedandtea I'm starting it today! Hope we both enjoy. 🧡🧡 4h

eeclayton @Andrea313 I didn't like the Trollope, but I hope it'll work better for you! 30m

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Born.A.Reader

Love Poems | Danielle Steel

#Lovepoem #Feelinthelove ❤️ 💕

Ironically, I just found this at a used bookstore and found it perfect for today's prompt.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous ❤️ 18h

Eggs Perfect 😍 7h

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Kshakal

Love Poems | Nikki Giovanni

#lovepoem #feelinthelove @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 1d

Eggs So beautiful 😻 1d

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LiseWorks

Love Poems | Peter Washington, Sheila Kohler

February 1st #Feelin'TheLove Love Poem @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs ❤️🌹💘 1d

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BooksandCoffee4Me

The Divine Proverb of Streusel: A Novel | Sara Brunsvold

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A few of the books read in 2024. Highly recommend #divineproverbofstreusal and #lionwomenoftehran

PaperbackPirate Welcome to Litsy! Visit @LitsyWelcomeWagon for some helpful links. 2d

BooksandCoffee4Me @PaperbackPirate Thank you, I will! 2d

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TeamFiction

And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell

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#AndTangoMakesThree #BannedBook

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dabbe

Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

This retired English teacher's score sucked! 😂 Though the 17 books I did read were not from childhood but from my years teaching middle school. My 3 choices are for the following reasons:
JOHNNY TREMAIN: #love
OUT OF THE DUST: #lovetoinfinity--in my top 5 list of fave books of all time!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Only an Honor winner? #wtf?

Here's the link if you haven't played yet: https://shorturl.at/kosig

Texreader I only read 3 2w

dabbe @Texreader If I hadn't taught middle school, I would have read 0! You're in good company; most of us scored less than 20. 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🖤🩶 2w

Texreader @dabbe I do have some on my bookshelves I hope to read someday. 2w

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Texreader @dabbe What subject did you teach? 2w

curiouserandcurioser I read 42 2w

dabbe @Texreader English! So you'd think I would have read more of these! I mostly taught high school, though, so zero Newbery winners for that age group! 🤩😂😘🤩 2w

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser Ya kicked my retired-English-teacher butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🖤🩶 2w

dabbe @Texreader Same here. Plus I want to reread JOHNNY TREMAIN again. I have my original teacher copy with all of my notes in it--same for OUT OF THE DUST. 2w

curiouserandcurioser It was fun to play:) 2w

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser Yay! I love taking polls! 🤩😂🤗 2w

DogMomIrene I got 17 too😂 A mix from my childhood & teaching years. That committee, though. Sometimes they pick books that may be all fancy pants literary, but good luck enticing a child to read it. 2w

dabbe @DogMomIrene #truth 🩶🖤🩶 2w

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TheBookgeekFrau

The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein

A literary postage stamp? Why, thank you very much!!!
😍😍

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w

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BarbaraBB

Random Acts of Heroic Love | Danny Scheinmann

so-so

This book is a bit of a mess. I have no idea why I bought it in the first place but that was in 2008 so a few years ago 😀

It is about grief and the First World War and quantum physica and animal sex and traveling in Latin America. Well, it fits the #SomePlaceCold prompt for #FictionalTraveler2025!

julieclair

LeahBergen 😆😆 I have books on my shelf like that, too! 3w

sarahbarnes I also have books like that I bought years ago and never read, and then I don‘t enjoy them much when I finally do. 😆 2w

julieclair I must admit I‘m intrigued as to how all those topics fit into one book… 🤔 2w

Suet624 @sarahbarnes yes, exactly. 2w

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KCofKaysville

Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi | Elif Shafak

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Good parallel account of the meeting of Rumi with Shams, a Sufi, which made him become a poet, and a modern day woman trying to make sense of her loveless marriage, who also meets a modern Sufi. I learned about Sufism and can see its attraction and the need for love, but I am not as enthralled with it as others might be. Still it is good. I began following Shafak.

Ruthiella I liked the historical half of this book but not the modern narrative. 3w

KCofKaysville @Ruthiella I agree with that! 3w

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