The Enchanted April | 
pickEven though I didn't devote the time to this book that I felt like it deserved, I loved it!! Arnim's novel definitely caught me off guard with it's awkward moments. This is definitely a book that needs to be read on a vacation or during the summer, without distractions.
Finished this book earlier this month, so I‘m watching the movie based on it this rainy April night... 🍿
pickDefinitely a fairy tale ending that seemed abrupt, but I loved the reveal of each personality and their interactions.
Although I'm behind for last month's #modernmrsdarcy book club pick, I do enjoy this novel. I can relate to many of the characters and their "anti-social" behaviors. ? #introvert #readreadread #alwaysbehind #workingonit
Why, yes ... I DO appreciate wisteria and sunshine
(and I‘d enjoy them even more with a few ‘necessary servants).
Currently reading (because it‘s April). 🤷🏻♀️
#FolioSociety
Flying home today. I had a good week visiting family, but between watching my baby nephew, taking care of a geriatric dog, and cleaning out my childhood bedroom, I had no time for reading. Started this aptly titled book on the flight out here and hoping to finish it today.
so-soAlthough the writing is lovely, I have concluded that I am not a fan of classic literature. The Austen-like writing isn‘t my jam but I do appreciate the art and beauty of it. The story begins when two women decide to take a month‘s holiday at a quaint castle to spice up their life. They answer an ad and two more women join them on the journey. I thought the plot was slow and for a book so short it took me a long time to finish this one.
“To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine..” - The Enchanted April
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☀️No Italian castle on the shores of the Mediterranean planned for my April. I do however, quite appreciate wistaria and sunshine. Here‘s to wishing for an enchanted April. 🌱
#currentlyreading #spring #vmc #virago #viragopress
panI just couldn't get into this book. Maybe it was the time period in which it was written. I tried really hard to like it but I skimmed it basically after I read 2/3 of it. I guess maybe you have to like reading that style of writing.
pickIf you‘re looking for lots of exciting action, skip it. Most of the “action” takes place in the characters themselves. The author shows us how their thinking changes, and we get a sneak peek into everyone‘s heads. The interesting thing about this is that some characters‘ motives are not what everyone else thinks they are. ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 #doubledip
A book published before you were born -#mmdchallenge
Public domain - #Booked2019
Current read, very different style of writing, as It was written in the early 19th century
Agreed! This is why I spend so much time reading. It has nothing to do with how much I enjoy it. 😉
I‘m starting this one now. It‘s the March pick for the #mmdbookclub, and it will serve as a #doubledip for #Booked2019 and the #mmdchallenge - public domain and a book published before I was born. #mmd
pickA classic novel originally published in 1923 has totally captured my admiration almost 100 years later. I absolutely adore these four unrelated, British woman who decide to spend the month of April in an old Italian hillside castle for four weeks of rest and relaxation. Each comes to the adventure from different social backgrounds and each walks away with different insights and perspectives whether they wanted to or not. Delightful!
1. Warmer temperatures (and no snow or ice)
2. Tornadoes
3. Going to bookstores (for new and used books) and/or books that arrive by mail
4. Take more walks with audiobooks!
5. Tagged book-Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
1. After winter‘s whites and browns (and frigid temps), I most look forward to spring‘s colors: especially the bright green grass.
2. All the ☁️ and rain.
3. 🌞 no matter the situation, when the sun hits my skin, I feel like Jack in Titanic, ”I‘m king of the world!”
4. Play in the dirt (aka get to work in the garden).
5. Every spring I intend to read Enchanted April and then I get distracted by new releases. ☺️
#HelloThursday @wanderinglynn
pickElizabeth von Arnim's talent in The Enchanted April is plain to see – to be able to put yourself in so many people's shoes, to describe and explain their experience so thoroughly – one must be nothing short of a genius. Full review: http://bit.ly/2Mqgkrz
bailedStarted this when I heard it was a #MMDbookclub pick. Started this and I was just utterly bored. Will be skipping that month.
Friday night! 😊
Starting book 2 for #newyearwhodis
@thegreensofa @monalyisha
The quote above is from the delightful book, The Enchanted April.
From The New York Review of Books Facebook page.
"... and though it would undoubtedly be best if one's appearance and sensations matched, yet supposing they did not - and one couldn't have everything - was it not better to feel young somewhere rather than old everywhere?"
pick"Oh, but in a bitter wind to have nothing on and know there never will be anything on and you going to get colder and colder till at last you die of it—that's what it was like, living with somebody who didn't love one." That‘s why Lotty Wilkins decides, one day, to use her savings to take holidays in Italy, near the sea, and share the rent of this wonderful place with three other English women whom she meets them by newspaper classifieds.
You don't think, I didn't buy any books within the last week? 😉 I bought my first little tiny book @rubyslippersreads 😍
I don't remember, who wrote about the tagged book, but I need to have it and I love the vintage editions and I he British library crime classics (of course). 🤗
pickThis is a great book to save for the winter months when you want a little literary sunshine ☀️. Four women in 1920‘s gray, rainy England pool their resources for a fortnight in sunny costal Italy. The fallout is unforeseen and a little bit magical. This is like a fairy tale for adults 🌸🌸🌸
#ReadingResolutions @Jess7 #photochallenge
Tired out of my mind, taking a break with this beauty, hoping once again that one day I will get my own month of "wisteria and sunshine"
1. Cambridge, MA
2. An article on Book Riot
3. The Enchanted April - I haven't actually read the book yet, but the movie was lovely
4. No.. but I had pet land crabs 🦀🦀
#welcomelitten
@saguarosally
This book reminds me so much of Howards End. "How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry."
so-soMeh. Started off promising with lots of charm but got ridiculous and silly about halfway through. (Very apt photo stolen from Google.)
Published in 1922 - 4 women respond to a classified ad to rent a small medieval castle in Italy for a month. They don't know one another, and they're all #lovablyawkwardcharacters
I'm really enjoying it so far! Can't wait to watch the film when Im done with the book.
#beastsgiveawaychallenge
#TBRtemptation post 3! Nearly 4 stars with 10,000 ratings! A #BOTM selection. A recipe for happiness: 4 women, 1 medieval Italian castle, lots of wisteria and solitude. Answering a London classified ad in February, they spend a month in Portofino, not realizing how transformative it will be. Now if they can help rejuvenate their significant others, the enchantment will be complete. Made into a film & Broadway play. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Guardate la copertina di questa meraviglia 😍 #fazieditore
pickRead this book! It is impossible not to love this and then wish desperately for a castle in Italy.
pickSuch a lovely gentle read, which has ignited a passion to spend a month in Italy. I was surprised how the characters grew on me and I became horridly defensive of their hope and dreams, wishing that they came true.
Whilst the scenic descriptions did not delight me like those nature passages by L. M. Montgomery, I was still transported by the floral drenched aromas and sparkling sea vistas of San Salvatore.
Re-reading one of my absolute chill-out-ponder-the-world books! 💖 #summerreads #modernclassics #penguine
pickI saw the movie adaptation of The Enchanted April with my grandmother when it came out in 1992, and I thought of her constantly while I read the book last week. This is the lovely, light read that I've been trying to find for months. 💐📚
I haven't read this, but from the synopsis, I think there might be #scenesfromanItalianrestaurant - but even if there isn't, I wouldn't mind having this beauty on my shelves 😍🗺
#RockinMay
It truly has been #enchantedapril. Plenty of rain makes for fluffy clouds of peonies.
#happyflowerfriday 👧 https://www.instagram.com/p/BTcCgBIhoQg/
pickI loved this book! The story is about four women who don't know each other but rent a castle in Italy together for the month of April. The descriptions are beautiful, the characters funny, and a fun ending make this an enchanting book!
Thanks for all the amazing posts for #marchintoreading!
I've got a bit of a cheesy hashtag for April but hope you guys will join in with #aprilbookshowers. Please tag me so I can come see what you're up to! Hope you all have fun with the prompts!
pickLoved this one for many reasons: the setting, the time and the flowers to name a few. #setinthe1920s #marchintoreading
Still on my TBR but I am hazarding a guess that this one #takesplaceinspring #marchmadness
pickI recently bought a new copy of this old favorite, perfect for the dark days of the winter solstice. What's not to love: an escape to Italy, rediscovered love in stagnant marriages, beauty, women's self-appreciation... The Enchanted April lets four women find themselves and unexpected joys.
