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Here‘s my March recap. It was a great reading month & I finished 23 books! (Including 5 audiobooks, 19 fiction, 4 NF, many genres, several children‘s & classics)

I read for #SundayBuddyRead #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #AuthorAMonth #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #SheSaid #RiseUpReads #JaneAustenThenAndNow #BookedInTime #FoodAndLit #Roll100 #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler #MonthlyNonFiction #SeriesLove2025 & #AuldLangSpine #SeriesLove2025 ⬇️

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.

Okay, I think this is mostly my April TBR. I‘m still considering a couple other readalongs/challenges but haven‘t made up my mind yet.🤷🏻‍♀️

Currently I‘m reading with #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #LiteraryCrew #AuthorAMonth #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #RiseUpReads #Roll100 #FictionalTraveler #ThematicCozies #MonthlyNonFiction #JaneAustenThenAndNow #LSFBC #NaturalLitsy & 2 from my #AuldLangSpine list & a few more.

1. Reread...I have no idea how many times 😂. I used to read it yearly! My viewpoint hasn't changed. I love it every time.
2. Elizabeth. She's still my girl.
3. How do I pick?! The first proposal, the meeting at Pemberly, the walk where they finally come to an understanding.
@Crinoline_Laphroaig #JaneAustenThenandNow

It never loses its shine. I have read it more times than I can count, but every time, I still feel all the feels as Elizabeth and Darcy find their way to each other. This reread was no different. #JaneAustenThenandNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig

#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

Well dang. From the cover and size, I was expecting a graphic novel. It does have pictures and visual ephemera but is mostly of the “take a public domain work and add something weird to it“ subgenre and that's just not my thing. Seeing Austen's actual words mixed up with new ones bugs me.

#JaneAustenThenAndNow #Permberlittens @Crinoline_Laphroaig

#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.