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#Pemberlittens from Jane Austen's House:

🎥 YOUTUBE PREMIERE: COSTUMING PRIDE & PREJUDICE!

Extend the Pride and Prejudice Day celebrations and tune into the YouTube Premiere of our wonderful talk with Dinah Collin, costume designer for the iconic 1995 BBC adaptation of P&P.

⏰ Available from Friday 31 January, 8pm GMT)📍YouTube:
https://youtu.be/hD63w3jokak?si=ExwIXSMNejljlMbq

#JaneAustenThenAndNow

I‘ve mentioned a couple of times that I read all of Bourdain‘s books last year. His still photographer is doing a sale of these fairly reasonably priced prints ($120 US shipping included), and I ended up buying 3 (at his writing desk) and 4 (the iconic middle finger). After all that time with him last year, it‘ll be nice to have him near my bookshelves! Sale ends tomorrow.

http://www.davidscottholloway.com/bourdain-print-sale

Informative. Disturbing. Sometimes funny. How do you describe this book? It sucks you in with a premise of a ridiculous “infomercial” for American Beef exports, and unwraps layers of things we don‘t like to think about. I don‘t eat factory-farmed meat but if I did before this book would have made me stop. Not preachy, but gets the message through loud and clear.

Happy 212th birthday to Lizzy, Darcy et al 🎉

I don‘t read many memoirs (and my reason for reading this one was mainly to fill a book chain challenge prompt) but I had a delightful time listening to Lauren look back on her acting career - it‘s really just a highlight reel of what went well and it‘s told in such an upbeat, breezy manner that it feels like a friend telling her favourite anecdotes over coffee.

This is 5 short stories set in the world of Dr. Who with River Song. (I absolutely love Alex Kingston in this role btw.) Overall I enjoyed this a lot. However, one of them almost immediately felt like it was written by a man. Spoiler alert, it was. Which was unfortunate because it was a great premise. It was still a fun book though.

I just went down such a rabbit hole after learning that Seanan McGuire 1) found her agent through writing Buffy fanfic, & 2) genuinely despises the ending of the series.

NOW. I have plenty of complaints about Buffy. But the ending was never one of them. Any other superfans want to weigh in?

I may have bought a book just to read her essay about it.

Note: Don‘t worry! I bought it used. Because, ew, Joss Whedon.

Getting a flat tire yesterday, at an inconvenient time, means new tires today. It hurts the wallet, but at least it is doable. I'm aware that not everyone has that privilege. And it does give me some reading time.

Today sees the last drawing of featured prompts for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge 2024/2025.
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It is no. 6. Damn Fine Coffee: Character is a coffee lover. For me as a coffee lover myself, this is a favourite prompt 😇
Tag me when you read a book that fits the featured prompt/one of the prompts.
#TPRC
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Everyone is welcome to join!

Recent acquisitions:

📖 A Book About The Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot by Darl Larsen
📖 The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1944-1969 (I'm excited to finally have the third volume!)