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In this novel from #1922 , 4 women embark on a monthlong stay in Italy. Von Arnim‘s description of the Italian villa the ladies stay at feels warm and friendly and almost magical. The ladies, in turn, find themselves during the month. Very character-driven, and it‘s wonderful to watch the growth of the characters as the novel progresses. The audio version I listened to was very good! #192025 #52BookClub24 #ACharacterDrivenNovel
I was hoping, with so much discussion of the meals in this book, there would be some good Italian food descriptions. But, since there weren‘t, I made a Shrimp Portofino based on the location. This was actually my dinner last Sunday (when I planned to finish this book), but didn‘t finish until yesterday. #CookingTheBooks #BookAndDinner
Oh my goodness, @BarbaraJean what an amazing trip to Italy you sent! The scents, sights and tastes without even leaving my chair! The journal is beautiful, candle smells amazing, and the cookies look delicious. And I can‘t wait to did into the books. You should be an armchair travel agent! Thank you so much! #staycationswap (Hope you like yours as much!)
#WeeklyForecast
I want to continue my reading of Islands of Abandonment.
I have just started The Enchanted April and want to finish that.
I want to read Still Born
And hopefully get a start on Blonde Roots
I had been so god this year and during the year‘s first four months only bought 6 books. Then May came and I bought 8 books.
The good thing is that I have already read 3; the 2 Manga and Black Butterflies.
I hope to get to several of these in June.
And A Glass of Blessings is for a buddy read in November #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade. I bought it early since I was buying from an online bookstore I usually don‘t buy from.
I just finished this enjoyable novel published in 1922. So many quotable portions throughout. I‘ve highlighted quite a bit for this buddy read. I‘m really looking forward to the discussion with my friend tomorrow.
I‘m doing a buddy read with a friend this week. Really looking forward to discussing this cheeky book with her.
Ready for some spring reading. Hoping the weather around here starts resembling spring. #BookSpinBingo
April #12BOOKSOF2022
I loved this #sundaybuddyread
The prose was beautiful 🤍
Another breakfast with THE ENCHANTED APRIL—which, I‘m sorry to say, hasn‘t grabbed me the way I wanted it to. Everyone‘s comments made it sound charming, but so far I‘m more frustrated than anything else. While I recognize that von Arnim means it to be a productive and/or humorous frustration, it‘s still kept me at a distance from the characters. Sadness.
I started another book from my Litsy stack over breakfast. THE ENCHANTED APRIL‘s first chapter made me almost unbearably sad, but I hope that‘s a sign these women‘s lives are about to turn around.
#Alphabetgame #LetterE
Also enjoyed: Etched in Bone, I love this series; Educated; Eleonor Oliphant is Completely Fine Love this book❤️; Emma
“There had been wonderful stars the evening before, and she had gone out into the top garden after dinner, leaving Mrs Fisher alone over her nuts and wine, and, sitting on the wall at the place where the lilies crowded their ghost heads, she had looked out into the gulf of the night, and it had suddenly seemed as if her life had been a noise all about nothing.“
#SundaySentence #192025
#FridayReads #FirstLineFridays #192025
“It began in a woman‘s club in London on a February afternoon – an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon – when Mrs Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking room, and running her listless eye down the agony column saw this:
“To Those Who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine. Small medieval Italian castle. . . .“
https://youtu.be/F25jLisvP9Y
Intro
Curtis is back!
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley
All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
How should I mark my five-year anniversary?
Hilarious story. I really enjoyed the interaction of these four women while they stay in an Italian castle for a month. Different personalities and backgrounds, different motives to stay at the castle. I liked the sarcasm tone of those dialogues, absurd situations. Even the author‘s life was peculiar. This edition has an introduction part. Better to read it after the novel. 3.5/3.8⭐️ #BookSpinBingo May 2022 #DoubleSpin @TheAromaOfBooks
Finished this last weekend with the #sundaybuddyread crew - it was so enjoyable! Definitely not what I expected but the descriptions of Italy in the spring were gorgeous and the characters were hilarious. I loved reading and discussing along with everyone @TheBookHippie ☺️
Enjoyable listen! I recommend the audio, great narration. Her writing style is eloquent and humorous. I listened to this while doing housework and it made the time fly. This is a photo of the actual castle inspired by this book, which she also wrote there. Perfect book for my first fiction read in 3 years! 🙌🏻
My April #BookStats & recap. I‘m satisfied with 10 books finished in April considering what a busy month it was. Finished up North & South & Oceanography of the Moon & the others I started & finished. I really enjoyed everything I read with the exception of slogging through North and South at times. An American Sunrise, I read for a book discussion & then listened to it on audiobook & took part in Big Read Hawaii & completed the National Poetry ⬇️
💐Tagged
💐 I‘m in SE Texas, so spring lasts about 15 minutes before we barrel at 90 mph into full-blown summer! I didn‘t choose the number 90 lightly—our temps are already up there. Then it will be 95 every single day until the end of October, so I stay inside in my AC. 🥵
💐 No, not much of a green thumb. I like planting things initially, but the upkeep proves challenging.
💐 Raspberry lemonade!
Consider yourself tagged!
#ThoughtfulThursday
I had my doubts about this classic (published in 1922) going in to #SundayBuddyRead but it turned out to be a lovely surprise that although 100 years old & about 4 women in 1920‘s England, still has relevance today. Charming, humorous & with scenery descriptions stirring enough to make me want to drop everything & head to Italy, it was an enjoyable & perfect for April. I watched the 1991 move last night after finishing & really enjoyed it too. ⬇️
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Well. We did it! An old classic novel! I have to say it was better than I anticipated- the descriptions of their surroundings was the best part for me. I did find the relationships interesting and it was fun to see what happened to them all, 100 years ago. Just wow.
Thank you for traveling with me in April to the enchanted April! I had fun! And I still don‘t like Melleresh 🤣 and I want to know the food bill!
Final thoughts?
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Think they all stayed friends? Returned to the house? Who was really healed or changed or found their joy?
Is this book a romance ?
Can you see this as a play or a comedy?
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Is the setting and the house the main character you think? The necessity of beauty in everyday life and love, do we forget that sometimes?
Beauty made you love and love made you beautiful … is this the story summed up?
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Lotty. She who changes first and seems at peace but is it what needs to be so she can live with Mellerish?
Is her inner joy what was fixed?
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Scrap/Lady Caroline had come to get away from love. Think she ends up with Briggs?
Isn‘t love what she has in her deep new friendship with Lotty?
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Lady Caroline and Ferdinand Arundel
Which is ROSE HUSBAND?!
Who can‘t stop kissing his wife?
And is now in a pickle !!
Rose
Frederick
What do you think? Are they healed? Are they truly in love? More so than Lotty and Mellerish? Did she escape into her religion and he just let her and became his alter ego and now that‘ll end?
Rose - think she will go back to the church ?
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Mrs Fisher can be nice. Who knew?!
How very shocking.
We didn‘t gain too much knowledge of her, and she did seem to soften a bit, do you think she changed the least or that was all she could manage?
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Telegram-for Rose from MR BRIGGS
WHO “fancies” ROSE?!
Well then.
Then he sees his ideal of absolute loveliness Lady Caroline…
And the struggle of Caroline seeing him as a grabber? For her outward beauty he is drawn. Which seems opposite of the whole story the inward making the outward beautiful. Why do you think that is?
Heads up #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
I‘m the only one in my house without Influenza 😱 so I may post questions early if the peeps here get worse or I feel symptoms . Spoiler alerts will be used as usual. I‘ve home covid tested the peeps, it‘s all negative. Schools are full of Influenza A and Norovirus ( thank god it‘s not that!) life- one grand adventure…. 🤧🤧
#BookReport Still avoiding books that might queue the water works which all 4 books accomplished. Loved The Enchanted April. I would like to make this story real and set myself in Italy for a month. The other three were all enjoyable but nothing that will stick with me.
#WeeklyForecast Fortunate Ones is for #LMPBC. I‘m about 25% and am not yet connecting with the story yet. Probably me and not the book. Barely started the other two.
I enjoyed this a lot. Final discussion this Sunday. Until then 🤐
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#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
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See you Sunday to discuss the last chapters and the ending! Anyone who has read the book welcome to join in! 🌺
1. Tagged 🌺
2. Only in winter- which is still going on here 🤦🏻♀️
3. Planting herbs, celery(pictured), veggies and flowers 🌱🌱🌱
#THOUGHTFULTHURSDAY 🌱♥️🌺
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absolutely loved this month‘s #sundaybuddyread ! The humor was written so very well! The thoughts and struggles of each of the women were so real and honest and still relevant today 100 years this book was written. The descriptions of the Riviera were so vivid and enticing it made me feel like I was there even though it‘s been cold all month where I live lol. Excellent read and I hope to read more by Von Arnim soon.
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On to the last chapters we go!
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Now we get to finish it! A lot needs to be “solved” in this last bit. Here‘s a pic of a table in Italy .. I‘m imagining we are here for next Sunday!
I appreciate you all reading along with me for this one! A hundred years ago. More things similar than not! Such a fun April read for me. I hope you are enjoying it as well.
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To be as happy as all that on so little …
Lotty effortlessly simply happy
Always being there was the essential secret for a wife…
Um.
WHAT?!
THE BATH!
They were aquatinted with Mr Wilkinson legs 🤣
The bill!!! We knew it‘d be BIG! Mr. Wilkins solves the housekeeping problem…
Thoughts?
Lady Caroline‘s handling of Mr Wilkinson..
So many little events that caused much thought!
Thoughts on any of this?
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Mr Wilkinson telegrams
Coming for “good business opportunity”
Oy.
Protecting Lady Caroline‘s nap
Kissing his wife for no reason
He kissed her not good morning or night but kissed her!!
Sees his wife differently.. as an asset?!
The nicer he gets the nicer his wife gets.
He was nice in private not just public!?
Thoughts on our Mr Wilkinson?
His main game plan for the three women?
Does he love his wife? Or ?
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Mrs Fisher restless..
Using Kate as a type of maneuver !
Game playing?
She doesn‘t seem to want her there is she her only option to ask?
Rose Mrs Arbuthnot - not praying or wanting too -
Because she is at peace in this place ?
I had many thoughts but what do you make of it?
Her desire for tangible love and be loved…
Not quite daring to ask her husband to come…
Think her husband is just following her lead in things?
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Caroline and Lotty
Lady Caroline & Mrs Wilkinson
Friends
What do you think of the addressing each other by first names as gradually the women get to know one another?
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The servants thinking the ladies had very little life in them!
The ladies being alone
No men..
Macaroons
That tea scene …
Wow.
Reactions??
And did you catch “Reading was very important the proper exercise and development of one‘s mind was a paramount duty.”
The descriptive nature of the flowers and trees changing brings out the wanderlust in me.
I‘m finding little gems and the more I read the more I like. You????