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Finished! The Libby audiobook narrator, Kate Kellgren, was so excellent, giving animated voices for the different characters. This was also my first full audiobook I think!
I‘m glad I finally read this classic. I was especially interested to learn what quotes from the movies were in Austen‘s text verbatim and what dialogue was interpreted from the book‘s descriptive parts.
@LiteraryinLawrence @SeaToSkyes #NewYearWhoDis #NYWD22 @monalyisha

I‘ve loved Pride and Prejudice my whole life thanks to @LiteraryinLawrence BUT I‘ve only seen the films. Deciphering Austen‘s language always feels hard to me, like Shakespeare tbh- beautiful but hard! So now I‘m trying audiobook thanks to the Libby app and thanks to my rowing machine and needing something to listen to while I exercise! Loving it so far ☺️ I think this is finally the year! #NewYearWhoDis #NYWD @SeaToSkyes @monalyisha

This book is so dear to me and I‘m not even a fan of romance.
I think what made me like this book so much is the fact that we see Lizzie and Darcy falling in love during the whole book, it wasn‘t something sudden. As much as I do love Lizzie, Darcy is my favorite fictional man, he is far from perfect, in fact, he has a lot of flaws, and I think that‘s exactly what makes him so real and amazing.

“If you will thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, believe, I thought only of you.”

Pinched from FB group. @sprainedbrain #PemberLittens

More new bookish wall art 📚❤

““- and now despise me if you dare.”
“Indeed I do not dare.”
(…) Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.”

Page: 265

“Elizabeth could not help observing as she turned over some music books that lay on the instrument, how frequently Mr. Darcy‘s eyes were fixed on her.”

Page: 265

A little bland but glad I read it

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Those paper flowers became a Pride and Prejudice themed tree for donation!

Mahalo @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag!🤗

1️⃣ I‘d love to visit Pemberley, Lambton & Derbyshire from Pride and Prejudice just because. Also Half-Moon Hollow, Kentucky or Mystic Bayou, Louisiana from either of Molly Harper‘s series to hang out with snarky fun supernaturals.

2️⃣ I‘m grateful for a good talk with a prospective new employer. It‘s not initially the job I want, but a way to get in until that job is ready & leave the crazy.🤞🏼

Per my last post, the P&P glasses were for my sister for her birthday in mid October. For various reasons we couldn‘t get together until Monday, when we went to lunch after I fulfilled my final out-processing task at the office.

She said she has a book of Austen inspired cocktail recipes for which they‘d be perfect! (The tea was for me.)

#Pemberlittens

#janeaustenmemes #pemberlittens

#PemberLittens

Perhaps the best use of this meme I‘ve seen.🤣

(Stolen from JA Universe on the evil Facebook)

I recently started dating a man and this quote from Charlotte crept into my mind. Not sure if she has the best advice, but I‘m making my intentions known. Please, send some HEA good vibes this way. It‘s already feeling like I “ran into” my hero 🥰

Chose one of the awesome postcards the lovely @iread2much sent me to frame for my little reading room ♥️

Elizabeth comes from a simple family from Meryton, when her mother sets up a line of eligible bachelors for Elizabeth and her sister Jane to Mary. Jane finds the one Mr Bingley the respectable and sensible man. While Elizabeth rejects a proposal and continues to wonder about the mysterious Mr Darcy.

#FallTreasures

Yes, I think the romance in my beloved Pride and Prejydice qualifies as a #SlowBurn but I think also a slow burn was my purchasing of this book after seeing @Crinoline_Laphroaig post about it a few weeks ago. I was going to immediately order it online & then I held off until last week when I was close to my local Barnes & Noble & they had it. It was worth the wait—it‘s gorgeous! So far I left all of the letters & goodies inside ⬇️

A recent issue of the New Yorker had 2 Austen-adjacent articles. One on rationality, that used the examples of Lizzie Bennet & Charlotte Lucas: Charlotte exercised rational choice-making by marrying the safe Mr. Collins. Lizzie's initial dismissal of Mr. Darcy was not. Ha! Another article discussed the darker side of Britain's country houses, how many of them were funded by slavery, a fact that Austen touches on. #Pemberlittens @sprainedbrain

Board game times with my friends and playing this gem, Marrying Mr. Darcy
They had the zombie expansion pack too lol. Very silly and fun, would recommend 😄

P&P is my favorite book, so when I saw this cover through my travels in England, I couldn't resist. @MonthlyBookClub #mbcreadathon #mbcbookfrogsreadathon6

Great read with a pretty cover ❤💜

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From the For Reading Addicts Facebook page.

Who collects P&P editions here? I know I have seen some posts from someone. I will send this to the collector if it‘s an edition you‘re missing!

Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett would spend their camp days walking on the trails, horseback riding, and reading by the beach. Sounds lovely to me! 😍

#LitsySummerCamp @ImperfectCJ

It‘s “Austen in August” so I am starting with Pride and Prejudice! I also began running with my puppy on his running harness this morning, too. He did so well!! Now we are both relaxing before dinner.

I am probably one of the few that could not stand this book. It just seemed to go on forever and it was hard to follow. It may have been that I was listening to this book while working so my attention was divided.

Spark Notes Twitter is the best #PemberLittens

Pride & Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance
Just what I need, another streaming subscription. I‘m not sure I can resist!

https://jezebel.com/im-abandoning-my-family-to-sign-up-for-peacocks-new-reg-1847...

I have always wondered why Lydia is so annoying, so terrible, so promiscuous, and just oblivious to what her actions affect her family. 😔
I think this video explains it very well and now I feel bad for Lydia.

https://youtu.be/sfQRgiBx5qk

These beauties came Tuesday, I just forgot to post them! I‘m so excited about these and definitely plan on ordering more! Leanne is so sweet and I will absolutely be ordering from her again!

Now I have a Jane Austen puzzle. My Austen collection is growing nicely.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
#litsy

My mom got me this board game!

This would be perfect for any #pemberlitten! I‘m very tempted to buy one!

332 p. Finally finished, and read it in Italian! So much drama just for getting married! I might be misjudging, I know I should evaluate the context of time in which the book was written, but it feels so outdated and I just could not ignore the pointlessness of the story. Would not read it again, would not recommend it.

#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #OrgoglioEPregiudizio

“I can resist anything except temptation.”Oscar Wilde
#Chiltern

#two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tag @LitStephanie ♥️
It‘s been so long since I posted one of these!

1. Tbh the only book club I‘m in is the #pemberlittens and I joined it for the sole purpose of reading P&P. By far my favorite Austen work. No surprise there 😂
2. I‘m a huge vampire fan so anything to do with that genre. There‘s an ongoing series called Crave by Tracy Wolff that I‘d like to read with a book club.

Lazy Sunday mornings listening to audiobooks while working on art work for my outdoor room. Next up “The 100 Acre Woods”

One sister is a model of decorum and manners another sister not so much and a couple more some where in the middle.

#MayCharacters #Mannerly Day 8

Why yes, I did walk twenty feet ahead of my kids while they talked about Minecraft so I could pretend I was walking the grounds at Pemberly. Can you blame me? #Pemberlittens

Trying to remember a language I once knew so well - reading Pride and Prejudice in Italian. Difficult, but exciting journey! Quite slow though.
Picture taken from my very random walk in the forest just before the rain poured out of the cloud.
#prideandprejudice #readinginitalian #janeausten

6/2021

#ThoughtfulThursday

Yes, reread P&P more than twice.
Yes, I judge a book by its cover.
Didn‘t pay attention to the last piece lol But media that reminds me of nature would be the National Geographic magazines.

When you have a busy mind and thoughts keep creeping in whilst you‘re trying to read - book down and pull out the puzzles! 👍🏼

For all the Austen fans out there. This one made me snort this morning 😂😂😂

So very, very true.