Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated

I sometimes wonder when I pick a read like this - why do I engage in such vanity - however I should say the language , the phrases , the etiquettes, the lady like behaviours which are so uncommon these days - they indulge me .. and may I admit I am enjoying the quick read !

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ATC

Love and Friendship | Whit Stillman

“A man sees something that ought to be done , no one that will do it but himself and so is driven to the enterprise... “

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Sarah83

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

Awwwwww 😍😍😍 @cobwebmoth what a gorgeous parcel 😍😘 I love everything. The cute little bag, the owl stickers, the tea, the colouring book, the book and the reflective bookmark.. 😍 (how could you know, the picture is hanging at my wall???) I love this picture.

It seems like you haven't received your parcel yet. 😪😪 Since July 7th it is still at the duty. Do you want to have the tracking number, maybe you get to know more?

rubyslippersreads So pretty! 6y

cobwebmoth I'm so glad you like everything.❤ I haven't received anything yet, but I will let you know as soon as I do.🙂 6y

monkeygirlsmama Lovely! 6y

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Sarah83 @cobwebmoth should I give you the tracking number? 6y

cobwebmoth That's up to you. If you're concerned about it, you can give me the number and I can try to look into it. 6y

Sarah83 @cobwebmoth this is the German one: RR705389697DE I am pretty nervous, because one of the last parcels I sent got lost. 😫😪 6y

cobwebmoth I just checked, and the postal service says that it left New York yesterday and is in transit between there and here, so it should just be a couple more days. 6y

Sarah83 @cobwebmoth awwwwww. This sounds great. 😍😘 So happy to hear that. I always feel guilty, when I already have your parcel and you didn't have mine. 😫 6y

cobwebmoth Don't feel bad. You can't control the postal service.🤗❤ 6y

Sarah83 @cobwebmoth that's true. Next time, you wait a week longer, than my parcel will be first 😉😍 6y

scripturient I have the same colouring book. 😍 6y

Sarah83 @scripturient I just thought, I saw it anywhere before, but I couldn't remember. 🙈 6y

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artkavanagh

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

I‘m very glad to have found a paperback copy. Whit Stillman was discouraging his Twitter followers from buying the ebook versions because they don‘t display footnotes on the same page, which spoils the jokes. I‘ll be reading this soon.

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BookaholicNatty

Love and Friendship | Whit Stillman

I found this while browsing at the library today and it looks so good!!! Anyone read this?

saresmoore I haven‘t read it, but it does sound fun! 6y

rubyslippersreads This was a case where I much preferred the movie. 😏 6y

Sassy_Steph That movie was so good!! 6y

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ReadingEnvy @rubyslippersreads oh really I haven't seen it yet, but read the book on serial reader 6y

CarolynM I thought it was a great movie, but I'm a dedicated Whit Stillman fan. I think all his movies are wonderful. (edited) 6y

BookaholicNatty @CarolynM what are some other movies/books of his that you love? 6y

CarolynM Metropolitan (an all time favourite), Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress 6y

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robinb

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

What a lovely surprise on my front porch this morning (along with the overnight snowfall)! Thanks so much for my #CupidGoesPostal package @JanJan ! It‘s here safe and sound. Counting down the days!!! 😊❤️
@MrBook @BookBabe @Avanders

Avanders So fast!! 💖💖 6y

JanJan I‘m so glad it made it! Thanks for letting me know! 6y

robinb @JanJan 👍😊 6y

[DELETED] 3803335244 Awesomeness 6y

robinb @ForeverNerdy such a nice surprise! 😊 6y

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scripturient

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

#TBRtemptation: Ooooh, this looks like fun! Has anyone read this (or seen the film)?

MrBook Oooh! I like that hashtag, by the way 😉👍🏻. 7y

scripturient @MrBook Yes, I jumped on the bandwagon. Hope that's alright. 😊 7y

MrBook Absolutely! 😁 7y

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scripturient @MrBook 👍🏻😁 7y

readinginthedark I heard that people had finished Austen's Lady Susan but haven't read any of the finished works or seen the movie. It looks like this version is the same story as the movie version, though! I've read the original and really enjoyed it; curious to see what the movie's like! 7y

Weaponxgirl The film was good! I haven't read the book but the film had a biting sense of humour through it. 7y

DebinHawaii I read the book (Lady Susan) a few years ago and wasn't wowed but I saw the movie several weeks ago and really liked it so I think I am going to go back and reread it and/or maybe this one as I am not sure what all is different. 😆 7y

LeahBergen I find this title (and the movie title) so weird. This book and the movie are based on a finished epistolary novel of Austen's called Lady Susan (why does this description say Stillman finished it?) Sanditon and The Watsons are Austen's two unfinished novels and she wrote a completely different piece of juvenalia called Love and Friendship. Why switch Austen's title?! (my dorky Jane rant of the day. 😂 Loved the movie, though!) 7y

CocoReads I enjoyed the movie, as I do with all Austen books made into movies. I confess, I've only tried to read P&P and could not get into it. However, I adore epistolary novels so I may give Lady Susan a go 7y

Eugeniavb I didn't really care for the movie all that much. It was just ok for me! I thought I would like it since I'm usually an Austen fan, but there just seemed to be something missing. 7y

SaraFair The film uses the old English and vocabulary of the book. It was hard to follow in Lady Susan ( which was an epistolary) but so much easier seeing the characters speak it. I liked the film for the period piece it was. 7y

moranadatter @LeahBergen That bugs me too. What was wrong with calling it Lady Susan? 7y

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LittleBrownBooks

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

"What an irony that our supreme ironist Jane Austen has been so badly misunderstood. So thank heaven for Whit Stillman and his reworking of Austen's novella, LADY SUSAN. If you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love LOVE & FRIENDSHIP." -The Times of London

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delaneyjoyce

Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated | Whit Stillman

so-so

Whit Stillman's retelling is a fun concept, kind of a satire of an already satirical narrative, and it is cleverly done but at the end of the day I'd much rather read the original.