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I added another Penguin Clothbound hardcover to my collection today! This time it's Madame Bovary, which I've been wanting to get for awhile now! I love the dark purple and orange cover! 😍 And I've been resisting this Mansfield Park Chiltern edition for ages now but I finally caved and got it today! The picture doesn't do it justice - it's exquisite! It's so pretty it actually makes my heart ache! ❤📖❤ #bookhaul

This was a good read. It has to be one of my favorite Jane Austen novels. It made me feel very relax while I was reading. I would definitely recommend reading this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Very excited that the #WinterGames have begun and I've started by finishing Mansfield Park! I really enjoyed it and I think it's up there as one of my fave Jane Austen's😁

I'm going to work out how many points I'm on tomorrow eve🙌

SO excited for the #WinterGames to start tomorrow!!

My goal for the #WinterCosy Readathon is to read as many books from my WG TBR list this month and as many as possible from my #NewYearWhoDis list in Jan!!

@PuddleJumper

I'd like to have finished Mansfield Park by December 1st ready for the #WinterGames2021 - if I manage 2 chapters a day until then I'll have done it!!💪❤

2 more chapters read for #NovelNovember & I plan to read more as the evening goes on! I'm getting more and more invested in Mansfield Park as I read and am now 200 pages in😁

Thanks so much for hosting @Andrew65 😊

Wishing the year was over for many reasons - 1 being that I‘m looking forward to not being so busy! @Moll has a great list of reads - half of which were already on my TBR!

As in years past, I‘ll definitely be taking this list further into 2022 than January.

Thanks as always to @monalyisha for being a great matchmaker!

#newyearwhodis #nywd22

2 more chapters read and starting Volume 2😁 #NovelNovember @Andrew65

Another 2 chapters read & I'm now up to volume 2😁

#novelnovember @Andrew65

Another 2 chapters read! I love Fanny as a character a lot; I don't find myself interested in any of the others in quite the same way, but she is great!

#NovelNovember @Andrew65

Another 2 chapters read for #NovelNovember & I think I'm going to read 1 or 2 more before I sleep too😊😴

I'm really enjoying Mansfield Park so far & I'm rooting for Edmund to get his act together and just fall for Fanny already😂😂

@Andrew65

*Update*: 4 chapters finished today!😊

2 chapters finished today for #NovelNovember😍

@Andrew65

Minimum 2 chapters of Mansfield Park a day, let's gooooo

#NovelNovember @Andrew65

I'm going to take part in this one too! Will set my goals closer to the 1st of December😊

#Wintercosy @PuddleJumper

#NovelNovember @Andrew65

My general goal at the moment is to read a chapter of Mansfield Park a day, so for this readathon, my goal is to read at least 2 chapters a day🙌

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Thanks for the tag @Emilymdxn 🙌

1. Mansfield Park, & so far I've stuck with my goal of at least a chapter a day😊
2. Goodreads & Litsy!
3. Probably Mansfield Park

Have a lovely Sunday everyone😊

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1. Anything by Jacqueline Wilson! Her books were pretty much all I read growing up😂

2. A thunderstorm for sure⛈ Or any kind of rainy weather tbh

3. Having hot water again & having a landlord who fixes these things quickly! It stopped working yesterday but we're back on track now!!

I'm on a mission to read at least a chapter of Mansfield Park each day and so far so good!

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView @OriginalCyn620

I tag @Emilymdxn

1. Spooky! I loved Scarathlon & I think my favourite read was Warm Bodies!!
2. I'm very much not on it when it comes to new releases, but I am looking forward to reading Mansfield Park (a very much old release😂)

My November read shall be my 5th Jane Austen of the year!!

Going to read a chapter or 2 before I get ready for bed😊😴

Speaking of, if you like a bedtime story, I'd really recommend the podcast Nothing Much Happens

24-5 Oct 2021 (audiobook)
Listening to Billie Piper‘s narration of Mansfield Park has encouraged me to watch her as Fanny Price. Fanny is not, however, a favourite. Why is she so sickly? She does not seem to be able to walk for more than 10 minutes! As a heroine, I much prefer Lizzie Bennett‘s strength and athleticism. I also deplore Fanny‘s passivity and her inability to express her needs or attempt to change her situation.

Made my first visit to BN in quite a while. They have these gorgeous and inexpensive copies of classics. (Not that I don‘t already own Mansfield Park, but loved the cover).

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
#MansfieldPark #JaneAusten #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookaholic #Classics #Fiction #Romance #HistoricalFiction

Tea and a good book

10/2021

After this weekend, we‘re closing the book on Fanny Et Al and moving on to Emma!

Invites have been sent to those who are signed up for Saturday and/or Sunday watch parties, but there is still time to join in. 😉

My dissertation supervisor (@austeneconomics) has just retweeted this...

#PemberLittens @sprainedbrain

Due to technical issues yesterday, I‘ve added a couple of parties for the 1999 and 2007 movies.

Next Saturday will be a double feature: 1999 at 2 pm CST, and 2007 at 4:30 pm.

Also, a new party was added for 1999 next Sunday at 8 pm CST.

Interested? Sign up here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aptrKRgU1cy1Lw__QsL9FSH7cf9ZJPe60o-eZbAW...

#PemberLittens

#PemberLittens

Tomorrow afternoon is the watch party for episodes 1-3 of the 1983 miniseries! The final episodes (4-6) are scheduled for next Sunday.

Zoom invites have been sent to those who are signed up for tomorrow, but there is still time to join us.

#PemberLittens

This afternoon is the last watch party for the 2007 MP movie starring Billie Piper. Only 1 person is signed up for this one (hi, @OriginalCyn620 😉) so far, but there is still time to join us... showing is at 4 pm US Central.

Completed my Jane Austen collection today. 😊 I love how each book is a different edition, and carries its own memories. Someday I'd like a boxed set, but I feel very attached to these 6 for now.

Current record: 4/6 (Still have to read Emma and Mansfield Park 🌻)

I did keep up with the #Pemberlittens chapter-a-day but am horribly behind in posting Litsy reviews...

Even the worst Jane Austen is better than 95% of books out there... And yes, I think like most people, this is my least favourite of Austen's work. It drags in places, it doesn't have the same humour as her other works and Fanny is a little flat as a heroine. But the prose is beautiful and there are places where classic Jane shines through.

Look at me, remembering to post about a watch party! 🎉🎉🎉

Zoom invites have been sent to all who are signed up for tomorrow‘s watch party of these ⬆️ beautiful people hanging out at the Park. Please let me know if you didn‘t receive it.

Everyone else: there is still time to join us! ☺️

#PemberLittens

Almost finished reading this monstrosity of a book! Although it‘s not my favorite Austen (shocker), I don‘t think Fanny is as loathesome as some people say. I think Fanny has an admirable sense of self-control considering how abused she has been. While this is a more modern interpretation, I believe this book has a lot to say about anxiety and psychological abuse. #pemberlittens

Brandon Taylor wrote the excellent Real Life and also always has an excellent tweet or two about Jane Austen. I would like to read this version of Mansfield Park?

#pemberlittens

Our April watch party schedule is up! I hope everyone who wants to participate finds times that will work for them. Please note that the 1983 miniseries has been split into 3-episode parties.

Sign up at the link below—first parties are this weekend!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aptrKRgU1cy1Lw__QsL9FSH7cf9ZJPe60o-eZbAW...

#Pemberlittens

#MarchStats #14 #MarchWrapup

A month I needed to escape into mysteries: 10; 3 are #audiobooks
1 memoir
1 historical fiction/YA
1 YA fiction
1 classic

First time reading this classic!

Fanny is definitely different from other Austen heroines...
#pemberlittens

I really should not have splashed out on the Folio Society edition of Mansfield...but I'm so glad I did! 😍 I absolutely loved the experience of reading this book at this particular moment, and plan to return to it more often in the future. I can't wait to see what more it has to reveal in five years, in ten...and this beautiful copy will be part of the pleasure. #PemberLittens

The first time I tried to read Mansfield park I bailed but after finding this audio production with full cast narrated by my favorite Dr Who companion Billie Piper I am happy to say I finished 🙂 overall mixed feelings about story and characters. I did admire Fanny sticking to her refusal to marry Mr. Crawford but other than that just wasn‘t my fav Austen heroine. #pemberlitten @sprainedbrain

And I‘ve finished the audio. Abridged of course because this book was terrible! No love lost on this one. #pemberlittens @sprainedbrain
Was anyone else terribly disappointed that Fanny and Edward‘s relationship was more an afterthought?
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I hope Emma is amazing, I need me some romance, humor and characters I want to cheer for.
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BUH-BYE FANNY.

Okay #pemberlittens. I was hating on this book so much I decided the book looked too heavy. So I decided to finish via audio. Thank god Juliet Stevenson is narrating. I just finished her narration of Diane Setterfield‘s Once Upon a River and I love her slightly gravelly and smooth at the same time voice.

With the #PemberLittens, I‘m reading Austen‘s novels for the 3rd time. As I was reading this, I realized that of the Austen‘s we‘ve read so far, this is my least favorite one. I‘ve also said that I love them all equally. But even my least favorite Austen, is still a good book.

It‘s just that you have to read all the way to the end, to really appreciate Fanny and her character.

After every book, I think that Austen can‘t manage to write an more

Not that many books I can suggest as background reading for Mansfield Park!

There's (obviously) the play they were going to put on, and if you're interested in the idea of Fanny as a slave Castle Rackrent should be a good comparison text.

@sprainedbrain #PemberLittens (not tagging everyone else because I think my list is out-of-date!)

#Pemberlittens

Anyone down for MP watch parties in April?

If so, please complete the survey so that I can try to plan so you can attend!

https://forms.gle/BRKapgBFMPDvannz5

Some of the last boxes to be unpacked at the new house are the book boxes, but I did finish Mansfield on schedule! I‘m very sorry that I wasn‘t able to keep up with my chapter-a-day posts this time but I‘m loving catching up on all of your posts.❤️

MP is still not my favorite Austen, but it‘s also not my least favorite, so there‘s that. 😉 I enjoyed my time with Fanny, her miserable family, and my conflicted feelings on the Crawfords.

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👍 I watched the BBC miniseries and loved it! The hairdos were odd but I thought the acting was really good and it stayed very true to the book. I liked this portrayal of Fanny, and Sir Thomas was really wonderful. I also thought they displayed Mary Crawford, Fanny, and Edmund very clearly. Mary really is always butting in right before Edmund at moments when, if Edmund showed up five minutes sooner, he might have fallen in love with Fanny.