Welcome to Litsy!

#PemberLittens I've been a bit offline for March because my Mr Darcy turned 60! How did that happen? His Birthday Wishes: to putter about in his workshop (which we've named The Putterage), weekend trip to Texas Pinball Festival, and Hummingbird Cake. He has a couple more days of Staycation. Currently he is happily changing the oil in lawn mower. He works a stressful job, mowing is his therapy. 🥳
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

Ch. 43/44: To Pemberly, therefore, they went and the housekeeper raves about Darcy, singing his praises like she's in church. Suddenly the man himself appears and Lizzy is *mortified*. But he's...chill about it? And also civil and solicitous and generous, and he wants Lizzy to meet Georgiana?!?! Lizzy can't make sense of it, and the next day he does show up with Georgie in tow, offering more kindness and a dinner invitation. Could it be...love?

#BookReport #WeeklyForecast

I finished The Mystery of the Bass-Bound Trunk

I read Anything is Possible, the Sherlock Holmes story The Bruce-Parlington Plans and Eurotrash

I‘m still doing my yearlong reads on the right

I read this month‘s reading of Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and will continue with the others; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

Continue By the Fire We

"To Pemberly, therefore, they were to go."

Is there any better cliffhanger?! The excitement always rushes up for me at this moment; this line, placed on its own after all the conversation and activity of the last two chapters, sets the stage with so much anticipation. I don't care if it's hyperbole, I still find it thrilling. #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Ch.37-40: OK, I know this meme is about shit that went down several chapters ago but it's just too good! Plus, much of the action since has centered on the fallout: how Elizabeth reconciles Darcy's side of the story, how and when she tells Jane about it, and how it affects her conduct with Wickham when they inevitably meet again. Also, Lydia is on a tear about how badly she wishes she could follow the regiment to Brighton (foreshadowing!).

Ch.35/36: A letter from Darcy to Elizabeth! He comes clean about his role in the Bingley/Jane affair and gives the other side of the story on Wickham- and it's *full* of high drama. Lizzy is reeling upon reading Darcy's side of things but admits to herself that she was wrong on both counts. Here's my question for you, #PemberLittens: now that the Wickham backstory has come out, who do you think is the worse Austen rogue- Wickham or Willoughby?

Ch. 33/34: After running into Darcy repeatedly during walks at Rosings, Lizzy finally runs into Col. Fitzwilliam instead. He brags about Darcy having saved a friend (Bingley) from a marriage to some trash lady (Jane), and Elizabeth is rightfully incensed. Then Darcy barges in with one of the worst proposals ever written. Every time I read it, I marvel that he ever redeems himself because this proposal is St-John-from-Jane-Eyre levels of offensive.

#PemberLittens

At my library #SHPL they have this tribute to Jane Austen for her 250th birthday!

It has book adaptations, movie/TV versions, virtual tours to take of places she‘s lived/been, and about her.

And I belief in June they‘ll be doing some special programs.

#WeeklyForecast

I don‘t have any plans for the upcoming week, so I hope to get some reading done

Continue my yearlong reads

Continue the buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Start of the Sea #BookedInTime and Entitled #SheSaid

I want to finish The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk

I want to read Anything is Possible and hopefully Eurotrash so I get a start on the book by Tiller

Ch.31/32: One of my favorite chapters ever! Lizzy is full of mouthy snark and dishes it out to Darcy- calling him out on his anti-social behavior and refusing to be intimidated by his grand manner. We get the quote that appears on all the t-shirts and totes and pins and artful prints, and deservedly! What a fucking banger. Then Darcy starts his weird routine of coming over every day with absolutely nothing to say, leaving the ladies like "wtf?".