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Loved this book! A series of essays exploring themes, writing effects, and styles in Austen‘s novels. Will work best if you have thorough knowledge of all of Austen‘s novels. Picture of my Austen shelf

Adding this to my TBR. #NationalPuzzleDay #JanuaryJazz #Pemberlittens @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I probably should have waited until “Austen in August” but I have no self-control.

Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction.

As I sit at home with COVID reading about illness in Jane Austens time, this sentence is no longer true.

And I‘m done! This is the first time I‘ve finished both the #Popsugar and @bookriot #readharder challenges. I really enjoyed them both and I found tracking it with StoryGraph made it a bit easier to see what I had and hadn‘t done compared to my normal messy scribbling of ideas. I‘ve read some really interesting books, this year had a good mix of easy and challenging prompts. Can‘t wait for next years lists

Fascinating!!

I loved this readable but very rigorously researched book on areas of ambiguity in Austen. It teased out so many beautiful aspects of her style that are easy to overlook or not appreciate how stylistically groundbreaking she was.

It‘s a very difficult time right now, and central London in a shared flat with ppl I barely know is a hard place to live in a time like this. My mental health is suffering rn, I‘m sure a lot of ppl are in the same boat.

Book haul, vol.2. Thirkell, Thirkell, Thirkell!
(NB: That is ridiculously fun to say out loud)

Jane Austen and sticky toffee pudding. The Anglophile in me is loving this!

Anybody else‘s cat do this their books? Or is it just Tilney who will take any opportunity to lay claim to my books? 😸😹😻
#catsoflitsy

Really enjoyed this book. It answered so many of my questions such as why/how did everyone know how much money everyone else had? And bonus: #Regency card games explained plus how Austen used them to reveal character.

Want to buy this.

A very descriptive and fun look into Jane Austen's novels. This book is a treat for Austen fans. The writing is livened by the good humor of John Mullan, whose observations shed new light on the much loved classics.

As a huge Jane Austen fan I truly enjoyed this book.

"[Darcy's] ardour overwhelms his reservations. He proposes because, despite all pride and all social considerations, he must have Elizabeth. It is the closest thing in all Austen's fiction to a declaration of sexual desire, and therefore not sufficient grounds for marriage."