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#PemberLittens

My local library #SHPL in Southeast, MI ✋🏻 is celebrating Jane‘s birthday in June! I plan on attending 🥰

I remember reading this years ago so decided to use my Thriftbooks credit to get myself a copy to read this year as we re-read Jane‘s books #PemberLittens

A take on P&P that involves taking the public domain original text and adding to it. I loved a lot of the artwork and often clever changes to make things futuristic (as well as making Lydia and Mary more tolerable).

I was less sure about some of the PoV changes, and I struggled with some of the historic tone and original sensibilities juxtaposed against the space setting and more modern-sounding additions, which was sometimes a bit jarring.

#PemberLittens I'm going far into the 'Now' for April. Super excited for this! It's such a gorgeous book.

I'm also going to have a look through my Kindle and Audiobooks. I have a ton of them on my TBR and I'm always adding more.
🎩📖🚀 #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#Read2025

For #Pemberlittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

1. Reread, I‘m not sure how many times as I read it at least every 2 years, often every year… maybe 30? Format: started with the purple beauty, read mostly on my Kindle & finished with the Classics Reimagined version this weekend. I don‘t think my viewpoint has changed too much except for more sympathy for Mary over the years.

2. Elizabeth of course! 💜 Darcy by the end.😉

3. Elizabeth ⬇️

Keeping it reasonable for my April #PemberLittens reading! I've never read Longbourn (!) so it's time, and I can't wait for Jane Austen's Bookshelf. I loved Price's funny S&S mystery so I'm glad to be reading what came before it and Bellezza/Harding's Emma adaptation was so clever that I bought the tagged book the instant it was released. I waited a long time to read it but now seems like the perfect moment, as a kickoff to a month of adaptations.

Winding down a quiet, rainy Sunday with some low light and the P&P chapter of this book. In it, the author reflects on how Lizzy taught him what it means to grow up- not through advanced degrees or important jobs, but rather reflecting on your own mistakes and putting in the hard work to change for the better: "For [Austen], growing up has nothing to do with knowledge or skills... it has everything to do with character and conduct." Truer words!

Closing out P&P with ch.3 of Kelly's book and Jane's views on "polite society". Much is made of the importance of proper introductions as well as the many clashes of class throughout the novel, but Kelly also points to the presence of the militia and the undercurrent of war and violence lurking beyond our story. But she still needs to throw in an outlandish claim, so brace yourselves- is Wickham actually...Darcy's illegitimate half-brother?! (?)

#PemberLittens for discussion of Pride & Prejudice! Answer here or make your own post just tag me so I see it. My answers:

1️⃣ Swapped between print and audiobook read by the fabulous Rosamunde Pike. Umpteenth reread. When I first started tracking my reading with Goodreads, I estimated that I had read P & P every other year since I was 14. Using that low estimate plus actually keeping track since 2017, makes this my 20th time reading. ⬇️

The plan was to read two chapters a day, but then I came to the point where I know Lady Catherine de Bourgh will arrive and then there‘s my favourite scene, so I just had to read on

This Austen novel will always have a special place in my heart since it‘s the first one I read after watching the BBC series

I think this is the 1st time I‘ve been thinking that Charlotte didn‘t make so a bad choice after all. Because she could have married a Wickham