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Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 8: Emma is at it again #matchmaker #kittyandprice #kittystillafteramilitaryman #possibleimpendingdrama #fingerscrossed #charactersiactuallyremember #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk Yay for characters I know. #RIPWoodhouse 8h

Librarybelle I rolled my eyes over Emma‘s scheming! 7h

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BarkingMadRead @Librarybelle she never learns 7h

Librarybelle @BarkingMadRead And you think she would have learned…😂 7h

ashlynn.majeske I agree. Can't she just learn for once? 7h

Deblovestoread London, a much bigger playground for Emma‘s tricks and I think Kitty shouldn‘t be thinking William Price is her beaux yet…. 7h

BarkingMadRead @Deblovestoread I‘m waiting for him to prefer Georgiana 💥 7h

Cuilin @Bookwormjillk #RIPColonelBrandon too. Where‘s Marianne???? 6h

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin right? I‘ll have to check my character list and see if she‘s on it 6h

willaful Surely there must be a nice, #noflannel wearing man for Marianne in this?

I'm also expecting William to prefer G, though I had previously thought she and James would be the match. Kitty and James certainly doesn't seem very likely. Who else is at a loose end, matrimony-wise? 4h

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Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 7: James Moreland is moving to Kympton #also #theferrarsarebusted #peaceout #lydiaisthesameasalways #kittyiscoming #georgiannaisgoing #headisspinning #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk At least I know who Lydia and Kitty are 🤣 1d

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 1d

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TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk SAME 😅 1d

willaful This is truly the #namedrop chapter. 24h

BarkingMadRead @willaful seriously 🙄 24h

TheAromaofBooks I am enjoying this one, but the number of names and connections is truly dizzying! 11h

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 6: the Colonel tries to fix things #yatesvisitscatherine #colonelvisitsmary #marywontseehim #heartbroken 💔 #willitallworkout #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk Just finished this one. It‘s starting to make sense a little now 🤪 2d

willaful I'm enjoying the read, but I think it's definitely lacking the deeper shades of characterization Austen brings to her books. The bad guys and good guys are all so obvious and they've all recognized each other and made friends. 2d

TheBookHippie @willaful I agree. 1d

mcctrish Lady Catherine is quite the pushover #hellhathnofury and all that for Anne Steele, I wish one of the gentlemen ( Darcy or the Colonel) would just yell at their aunt “for god‘s sake woman, you have stirred up a hive of trouble over idle gossip put in your ear by conniving hussies” and call it a day (edited) 2h

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 5: my head is spinning and I had to #consultthegoogle #somuchdrama after a ton of drama, Lizzie gets Mary invited to Catherine‘s reception #enterMrYates #sosalty #sinsofthebrother #poorColonel #fingerscrossed #flashbacktoLizziesGarden #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade #almostcaughtup

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Bookwormjillk I feel like I‘m going to have to re-read all the books now 2d

willaful I'm curious about Mrs. Grant's saying “If you only knew the real truth of the matter--if you only knew who had suffered and who was to be blamed!“ What do you suppose she's referring to? I don't think Mary should be blamed for her brother's actions but I also don't think that was the reason Edmund broke with her. I don't mind seeing Mary redeemed but I don't like her being whitewashed. 2d

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peanutnine @willaful I think that is just bias from Mrs Grant on her sister's behalf, seeing her heartache. I hope that Mary recognizes how she acted poorly and learned from it 2d

TheAromaofBooks I finally had to sit down and write out little mini family trees to help me remember who is who! Part of the problem is Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey are the two Austens I have read the fewest times and a LOT of the characters are from those two books!! 2d

ravenlee I was doing all right keeping everybody straight until Mr. Yates showed up. I knew, from the guide at the beginning, he was from MP, but I couldn‘t place him. When he became important, though, I got frustrated and had to look up “who the hell is Mr. Yates?!” 2d

TheBookHippie @TheAromaofBooks brilliant. I‘m going to do the same so I don‘t wear the Google out 😅😂 1d

TheBookHippie @ravenlee 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😅😂🤷🏻‍♀️same. 1d

mcctrish Lady Catherine “I know things, but I‘m not telling you what! Suffice to say you should be ashamed. But I‘m not getting into it. So get out of my house and feel badly. And no I won‘t say why!” For the love of god, women, spit it out!!!! 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 4: #somuchdrama #colonellovesmary #walterlovesmary #whodoesmarylove #catherinedoesntcare #dontgetmestartedonthosesteelegirls #troublemakers #runlizzierun #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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peanutnine Ugh the Steeles are always so annoying 🙄 2d

Bookwormjillk I like that Lizzie is so spunky in this book 2d

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk me too! 2d

Ann_Reads It seems the Colonel has met someone who might make him happy. With the meddlesome Steeles and snooty Lady Catherine involved, what could possibly go wrong? As an aside, I started off with the ebook version but I couldn't get into it. I broke down and got the multi-person narrated audio version, hoping it would draw me into the story more. (edited) 2d

BarkingMadRead @Ann_Reads ohhhh interesting! I hope the audiobook helps! 2d

mcctrish Lady Catherine has a bee in her bonnet about everyone ( and yes, they all need to ditch the Steeles) 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 3: Mary Crawford and the Colonel hit it off #timeforaride 🐎 #annenotnancyisridiculous #edwardisatpemberley #plottwist #somanyworldscolliding #fanfictionexplosion #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk This book is confusing me. I need a chart of characters. 2d

Librarybelle It‘s testing my knowledge of the main and secondary characters too, @Bookwormjillk ! My edition has a character list at the beginning, which was a good refresher for me. So far, I find it interesting how the author has intertwined the different Austen books - very plausible. 2d

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @Librarybelle my edition has a list of characters at the beginning as well, but google has also been my friend. I‘m super aware of all the P&P and S&S characters, as well as Emma, but the rest aren‘t as familiar! 2d

Deblovestoread Thankful for the list of characters. It has really stretched my memory of whose who and the role they played in their book. 2d

peanutnine So many characters!! I just finished reading Mansfield Park so that's been helpful. What's throwing me off the most is remembering everyone's new married names 2d

mcctrish I am feeling so rusty ☹️ and all this talk of vicars and curates has me thinking of Grantchester ( I just binged the early seasons ) so I feel like there should be a murder right about now 🤣🤣🤣 2d

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish a murder would be delightful 🤣 I can think of a few victims I wouldn‘t mind seeing gone 🤣🤣 2d

mcctrish @BarkingMadRead we were spoiled with Cranford 🤣🤣 2d

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 2d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish they can‘t all be Cranford 🤣 2d

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 2: whew! So many new old characters! #RIPbrandon #always #singlesmixer #thosesteelegirlsthough #hotmessexpress #inwalksmarycrawford #whowillendupwithwho #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk Lol #hotmessexpress 3d

willaful I think it's interesting how the author assumes readers all already know the backstory of each of the characters.

Also, yet another who wants to rehabilitate Mary Crawford! I remember reading a “sequel“ -- Joan Aiken, maybe -- which was clearly of the mind that Mary got #arawdeal and should've been the real heroine. Never mind the whole #beingafortunehunter thing. 3d

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Ruthiella @willaful I loved Mary Crawford and was annoyed by Fanny, but I need to re-read

Mansfield Park

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willaful @Ruthiella Fanny is definitely all wet, but Mary pretty much #dugherowngrave IIRC. I don't mind her growing from the experience and having a HEA though! (edited) 3d

Cuilin So many characters. There was a moment where a Nancy showed up and I was like where did you come from? 3d

ravenlee @Cuilin that threw me for a minute too, and I had to rack my brain to remember Nancy is a nickname for Anne (which I should remember, as an Anne) 3d

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin @ravenlee yeah, it took me a minute to see that Nancy is Anne #annenotnancy #dontconfuseme #toomanypeople 3d

TheAromaofBooks Sooo many characters all at once and @willaful is right about just being expected to remember them!!! I was never a Mary fan and read another sequel where she died, so I was also a little like, “wait, she's not dead??“ 😂 But poor Brandon! I love that guy, and everyone always wants to kill him off! #Brandon4lyfe 3d

ravenlee Exactly! @TheAromaofBooks Why is Col Brandon always the first to get knocked off? He‘s one of the best Austen characters. And I feel more sympathetic to him as I find myself on the wrong side of 35 (okay, 40) - he‘s supposed to be sooo old and he‘s not even middle aged?! 3d

TheAromaofBooks @ravenlee - Right?? Everyone so down on him because he wears flannel! 😂 3d

dabbe @ravenlee I can't ever picture Col. Brandon again without thinking or seeing Alan Rickman, who is also gone. 💔

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dabbe @willaful Agreed! It's been a while since I've read some of Austen's books, and boy am I having to go back and research to remember the gist of each person from the Austen novels. 😅 #whew 3d

BarkingMadRead @dabbe same! I mostly have the gist but I definitely needed a bit of a refresher 3d

willaful Brandon got knocked off?! I missed that.

Now I want to read an AU where Marianne dies and Brandon and Mary Crawford get married. #justkidding #donthateme 3d

BarkingMadRead @willaful I hate that Brandon died! Whyyyy does everyone kill him off?!? 3d

willaful Oh, I did remember wrong. It wasn't fortunate hunting, it was Mary's moral failings in Edmund's eyes. 3d

Morr_Books @BarkingMadRead Can you add me? I'd love to join the discussion. 3d

BarkingMadRead @Morr_Books absolutely! 2d

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Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen

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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen

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BarkingMadRead

Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen | Sybil Brinton

Chapter 1: Georgianna is engaged to the Colonel #wtf #hecouldbeherdad #sogladtheybrokeitoff #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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mcctrish He was a safe choice ? 3d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 😵‍💫 3d

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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I hate that for everyone involved! 3d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I was going to use that exact emoji 🤣 3d

mcctrish And @BarkingMadRead yep, nobody is happy 3d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish it‘s exactly that. 3d

willaful I'm still trying to work out how it happened. Did Darcy pressure them? 3d

BarkingMadRead @willaful I kinda feel like he did. I think he meant well, though 3d

willaful Oh of course. He wanted her safe and of course they would love each other. 🙄 3d

TheAromaofBooks It's not even the age different that bothers me as much as just... feeling like Georgianna hasn't had an opportunity to meet any other options! 3d

Ann_Reads Georgiana still seems very sheltered and naive. 2d

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