Thank you Christine for the cute card featuring the Yule Cat (if you haven‘t seen the Icelandic Air ads with Yule Cat go find them right now and enjoy!). The info sheet about Yule customs is also such fun! @thebacklistbook and @TheBookHippie #yuleseasonswap
A #kindlefreebie sequel to Sense & Sensibility. #kindledeal #janeausten #Pemberlittens #ebookdeal
Last night I finished my 72nd and last book of 2025. I‘ll do all the fun stats and wrapups later. For now I want to mention one quirky thing that I track just for grins and giggles.
The oldest book by far that I read this year was Emma. Thank you #PemberLittens for the kick in the pants! This also means that I‘ve now read all six of Jane‘s novels. Emma was not my favorite!
pick#Pemberlittens my last read for #JaneAusten250. Been saving Sanditon for the end of the month. It's been a lovely year rereading everything Jane wrote. I'm reading from the gorgeous new edition illustrated by Marjolein Bastin, includes Sanditon, early novella Lady Susan, another unfinished work The Watsons and the 3 Volumes of Juvenilia. Reading all these has been a perfect companion to Jane‘s 6 main novels.📖
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
I'm making a goal to read five classics in 2026. I feel like I read this one in high school and was so unimpressed that I don't even recall it (I'm a Brontë sort of girl). But it is on every single list of recommended classics so FINE FINE EVERYONE ELSE WINS I will read it again.
pickI absolutely enjoyed this book mixing Jane Austen‘s letters with illustrations of the houses and places she visited, the dress code, social code and introductions
I really got a sense of the world Jane Austen lived in
I absolutely love this. Now we also know the extent of Mr. Knightley‘s sacrifice
Another thing I enjoy is how we get prospects of the places/ houses where Jane Austen is staying, like this one of Winchester
I would have loved to visit this bookstore; Messrs. Lackington, Allen & Co., at the Temple of Muses, Finsbury Square
One of the things I love about this collection of Austen‘s letters is that excerpts from her novels are included together with drawings of the area.
