Blogger Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs Darcy says: "Pride and Prejudice should be read in the spring; Emma in the summer. But Persuasion is for colder months."
Mansfield Park is a summer read as well. All the discussions of the heat, hahas and improving of gardens just make it perfect for the season. ?????
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so-soEveryone seemed to love, for me went to SoSo because of 'forgive your abusive mother to save yourself' theme. You can acknowledge that you had a horrible mother and move on to make a better life for yourself. Lots of us daughters of dysfunction have. At least this book didn't go full on 'she did the best she could' Redemption Arc. But still the guilt tripping to visit abusive mother irked me.😒
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Ewww. When an author name drops and it doesn't age well. 😬
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pickEpiphany #Pemberlittens on not liking when originally read as a teenager. Now I have Elizabeth Bennet's Obstinate Headstrong Girl attitude, back then I was Fanny Price. Quiet, shy, & afraid. Often I compare my hypochondriac mother to Mrs Bennet. Yet so many times with reading(especially w/Juliet Stevenson audio) Mrs Norris sounded exactly like my mother. Verbal abuse & neglect of Fanny I think just hit to close to home for me back then....⬇️
Next to last Chapter with Fanny! Today it's #listenwhileyouwork and tomorrow I'm going to sit down with a cup of tea and savour the ending. 🏠🧹🧼 #pemberlittens
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It's officially Fanny's family has driven her to drink. Myself I would have gone for the Whisky. 😉
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Edmund. 🤦🏻♀️ #musingsonmansfield
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I've been collecting Clothbound Penguin Classics as #Pemberlittens read Jane Austen. We're currently still reading Mansfield Park but I spied a copy of Emma today when I stopped into Barnes and Noble for a coffee and I brought her home. I liked to be prepared. 😉 @sprainedbrain
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#throwbackthursday - A year ago today, when the biggest worry I had about going out was whether or not there would be tea. It was the last time going out was carefree.
Today #Pemberlittens I'm at home catching up on my #chapteraday #musingsonmansfield @sprainedbrain
Catching up on Ch 30 - 32. And all I can think is ??? - Henry Crawford & Sir Thomas.
"I had thought you peculiarly free from wilfulness of temper, self-conceit , and every tendency to that independence of spirit, which prevails so much in modern days, even in young women, and which in young women is offensive and disgusting beyond all common offence."
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