Chapter 22 (Volume II, Chapter 10): "I hope you do not think I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself. I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say. His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read." - Persuasion
Charles Musgrove said something logical. ?
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Ch. 21 (Vol. II, Ch. 9): him. "Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced." - Persuasion.
Mrs Smith spills the tea! ?
Here's a lovely flashback to Pemberlittens readalong back in 2021. We dismantled The Glasshouse and moved it bit by bit to new house. All pieces are neatly stacked in a corner of the shop building, to hopefully rise again one day.
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pick(1742) Fielding's follow-up to Shamela continues his critique of Pamela. It's a gender-swapped comedy in which Pamela's brother Joseph resists his female employer's advances. Compared to Shamela, JA has more nuance, more satirical targets, and more than one joke. Of course jokes that worked for his audience often don't work for me: much of it is slapstick, some based on SA. But the humor of character, manners, and wordplay still get laughs from me
so-soAn extraordinarily unsympathetic main character floats through life being thoughtless and too blunt with people. He attends his mother‘s funeral with nonchalance—really, we‘re all just going to die anyway, so what‘s the big deal? Then a suspicious character befriends him, he enters a serious (at least to the extent he‘s capable) relationship, and murders a man (not a spoiler—it‘s in the first sentence of the book‘s description). The MC lives a ⬇️
#wordoftheday. I ♥️ your sample sentences Mom! @Doll8455
“I inclined to think that they were greeting me, after their fashion, but it had a queer effect, seeing all those old fellows grouped round the keeper, solemnly eying me and dandling their heads from side to side.”
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“…the lady carried upon her upper lip certain reddish demonstrations, which, if the imagination had been assisted by her attire, might have been mistaken for a beard. These were, however, in all probability, nothing more than eyelashes in a wrong place, as the eyes of Miss Brass were quite free from any such natural impertinencies.”
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Defines "hiraeth" as an "excellent Welsh word for the mournful longing for home", ugh. No. It's a longing for Wales, specifically -- a Wales that may not exist.
Absolutely nuts to say that Mole in Wind in the Willows feels hiraeth when he passes his old burrow.
Chapter 20 (Volume II, Chapter 8.) “You were a good while at Lyme, I think?”
Seaside is such a big part of Persuasion's storyline. Has me thinking about that time I carried The Lonely Shore: Jane Austen and the Sea by Julia Fry with me on vacation just so I could read on the beach.
Because it was a gift I was extra careful not to get it wet or full of sand. 🌊
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I've been having trouble settling down to read in the past few days, but I did manage to read a few chapters of this today! I'm enjoying it and it matches well with the course I did on children's literature in my undergrad, and what I remember of my third-year housemate's dissertation.
I appreciate that it's very clear that it's mostly talking about British childhood reading, rather than defaulting to that silently.
11 months in, this sentence made me laugh. 😅 (no book hate intended, just a little fun 😉)
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