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The Making of Pride and Prejudice | Sue Birtwistle, Susie Conklin
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle & Susie Conklin
📖 Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rode Off to Battle by Ann Kramer
📖 Once Upon a River: A Novel by Diane Setterfield

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peanutnine
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I'm behind on reviews again, but felt the same as most #pemberlittens with this one. It was decent but there were sooo many characters to keep track of and while I liked revisiting some of my favorites, I don't know that the couples paired were the best matched. Glad to have read this though, especially with the #hashtagbrigade

peanutnine #2023ReadySetRead title starts with 'O' @Clwojick 3mo
BarkingMadRead Definitely the general consensus!! I think she could have cut the characters in half and been just as successful 3mo
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dabbe
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A fun romp with the #pemberlittens and the #hashtagbrigade, led by the ever-hilarious and insightful @BarkingMadRead. Considered the first “fan“ Austen novel as well as pastiche, I enjoyed the attempt by Brinton to include most every main/minor character from all of Austen's novels. However, there were a ton of characters to keep track of, and some were only mentioned briefly. I also found Kitty to be a brat. Still, I loved reading with the group!

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TheAromaofBooks
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Soft pick. I enjoyed this one - and I especially enjoyed reading it, as always, with the #HashtagBrigade - but I think this book would have benefited from either narrowing its focus or being spread out over multiple books. We have every single character Austen ever thought about creating all milling about, and three different love stories, so it's a lot to jam in. In the end, I wanted to like it more than I did, mainly because I'm not actually ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) convinced that any of the three couples are still going to happy in ten years! 😂 Still, a fun little romp, and kudos to Brinton for managing to work so many of Austen's characters into one story!

Thanks for hosting @BarkingMadRead - reading as a group increases my enjoyment of these books by about 1000%!!!

#MtTBR
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#AlphabeticalBingo @Clwojick
#BookSpinBingo
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BarkingMadRead This seems to be the general consensus 🤣🤣 3mo
eeclayton I'm especially doubtful about Mary+Fitz. Her passive aggressive way of problem solving may not be conducive to married bliss in the long run. 3mo
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TheAromaofBooks @eeclayton - For sure. I wish we could have seen a scene of them actually having a conversation about their misunderstandings and working through them. And I just... Kitty as the helpmeet in a parish??? Georgianna, who is sweet and kind but rich and spoiled, as the wife of a seagoing fellow who is gone for months at a time??? None of these really matched up for me 😂 3mo
eeclayton While I agree about Kitty, her engagement actually makes sense to me. She was disappointed and then welcomed the first person who was interested in her. That doesn't mean I see happy spouses in the future 😂 It's a great point that all of these conversations take place off-screen. Even with Georgiana+William, we see them meeting, but aren't given what is said. 3mo
willaful I actually think it could work for Georgina, because she's used to being the family pet and she'll just keep being that while William's at sea. Kitty I don't see at all. She'll be bored and useless. 3mo
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DebinHawaii
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Read with the #hashtagbrigade for the #PemberLittens I am happy to have finally read this one. I am giving it a soft pick for sentimental & 💕of Jane Austen reasons + it was early fan fiction. Reading it in a chapter-a-day format with funny hashtags from @BarkingMadRead was the way to go here as the many characters & the extra angst might have annoyed me in bigger doses.

BarkingMadRead I totally agree!! 3mo
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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A bit over the top with misunderstandings, broken engagements, and then there is Kitty Bennet. The most annoying character of the book. I found myself agreeing with Mrs Bennet and yelling "Oh! hang Kitty! what has she to do with it?"

Not my favorite Austenesque but fun Chapter a Day Readalong. Thank you @BarkingMadRead for hosting and all the fun memes!

BarkingMadRead 😍😍 3mo
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mcctrish
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This was delightful! A 1914 fan fiction compendium of all of Jane Austen‘s characters living in one story and living out their lives. I might need a physical copy to put in my shrine

Crinoline_Laphroaig This pic makes me happy! 3mo
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eeclayton
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Mehso-so

#pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade
A sequel to all six published Austen novels, Old Friends and New Fancies manages to star, revisit or at least mention most of the characters we know and love from the Austen books. The first chapters were quite confusing for me, it wasn't easy to follow who was who and how people knew one another. The connections were quite clever, but that's all I can say on the positive side. ⬇️

eeclayton Sadly, most characters lost their charm, they all acted and sounded similarly throughout the book. The plot revolved around three budding romances, which weren't too compelling without the layers of Austen's character studies and social commentary.
All in all, it was an interesting read, but nothing that you shouldn't miss.
Thanks @BarkingMadRead for hosting ❤️
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willaful I agree, only the buddy read really made it fun for me. (edited) 3mo
eeclayton @willaful Oh yes, that part made it absolutely worth it 😊 3mo
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eeclayton If Charlotte Brontë had written it, William Price would never come back from sea 😂 Thank you @BarkingMadRead for hosting another fun buddy read! 3mo
Ruthiella @eeclayton 😆😆😆 Totally! Thanks you @BarkingMadRead for the leadership! It was fun. 3mo
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Deblovestoread You make reading along so fun! Thank you. 3mo
TheBookHippie Thank you so much for all your work! Highlight of my mornings!! 3mo
TheBookHippie @eeclayton This is why I love Brontë ? 3mo
BarkingMadRead I‘m so glad you‘re all having as much fun as I am 🤣🤣 3mo
ravenlee Hooray! We made it! That was fun. 3mo
Allylu You make reading these selections a blast! I look forward to the hashtags every day! 3mo
mcctrish #allswellthatendswell that was a frantic wrap up 🤣🤣 and @eeclayton I had that EXACT thought 🤣🤣 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I enjoyed this one, but didn't LOVE it. Too many characters for me to really feel like I got to know anyone, and I'm honestly not totally convinced about the long-term happiness of any of the three main couples 😂 But still a fun little romp! 3mo
julieclair Okay, full confession… I just could not get into this book, so it was a DNF for me. But I loved reading the hashtags and looking at the memes each day! Always good for a laugh! Great job hosting, as always. Thank you. 👍🏆🙌 3mo
rubyslippersreads I enjoyed this, but what made it really fun was reading it with all of you. 😊 3mo
DebinHawaii This was cute & I‘m glad to get it off my Kindle TBR FINALLY! I‘m going to give it a soft pick for being early fan fiction & for sentimental reasons but I think a chapter-a-day with #hashtagbrigade & #PemberLittens was definitely the way to go as I don‘t think it had enough oomph on it‘s own. Thank you for the stellar hosting & all the fun @BarkingMadRead 😘 3mo
Cuilin I really enjoyed reading along and seeing your posts, thanks @BarkingMadRead It was a delightful like not love for me. 3mo
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