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peanutnineThis was so great! I love that Peter brought them all together again 🥰2y
RuthiellaWonderful ending. Thanks so much for leading us in this read-along. It was awesome! ❤️👏👏👏2y
dabbeLeave it to a MAN to have to fix the ladies, so to speak. 😏 Still, I will miss Cranford and these wonderful ladies. Thanks for leading us and making us laugh,@BarkingMadRead. 💙💚💙2y
AllyluReading this with you folks was soooo much fun! Love the #hashtags. Thank you!2y
Clare-DragonflyThank goodness, the book ended before Peter died 😂 Thanks for the hashtags!2y
VansaI could not love this more. I absolutely love how Peter continues to be cheeky and invent stories about shooting cherubs.Mrs.Jamieson is obnoxious,I love how Gaskell very cleverly shows the slow acceptance of a more fluid form of interactions among classes- Ms.Matty is " in trade",Martha and her husband live with her,Lady Glenmire thinks nothing of chucking her meaningless title.Its interesting that Georgette Heyer wrote nearly 200 years later(1/22y
Vansa(2/2) and displays far more rigid views towards class. Absolute delight and thank you for this, I would never had read this if not for this excellent reading group #Pemberlittenz2y
julieclairThis was such a fun read! The Cranford ladies are a hoot! Reading it together made it all the more fun. Thanks for another great job as host,@BarkingMadRead ! 👏2y
mcctrishI think Peter broke the curse 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you so much for leading us@BarkingMadRead this was a really fun read2y
willafulSo what do we think -- Peter marry one of the Cranford ladies or no? Which would be safer? I like your take,@mcctrish !
I just remembered, I was surprised to see the term “cast up her accounts“ in the book. I've only encountered it before as slang for... er... feeling unwell. 😄(edited) 2y
TheAromaofBooksI genuinely loved this one, which was a huge surprise because I HATED North & South! But this one was full of such gentle humor and likable characters, and not nearly as many funerals as I feared!! 😂2y
TheAromaofBooks@Vansa - I do think Heyer's books are set in the earlier Regency period vs. Cranford's Victorian era. Also, Heyer's stories tend to focus on a richer, more upper class than we find in Cranford, so I think that also changes how various class interactions are portrayed. But it was fun to see some of the distinctions change throughout the story!!2y
Vansa@TheAromaofBooks I know they're set in a different time period! Obviously😀I'm talking about the author's own attitudes,not the characters'.Heyer demonstrates the sort of attitudes towards class that Mrs.Jamieson does,if you read her books.2y
I just remembered, I was surprised to see the term “cast up her accounts“ in the book. I've only encountered it before as slang for... er... feeling unwell. 😄 (edited) 2y