These are a few choices I found for our #LMPBC #GroupL

If you‘ve read these, or they don‘t appeal, I can definitely pull other selections 😊

So exciting - my first time joining the #LMPBC !

@TheAromaofBooks created Group L for “happy fiction” - such as Wodehouse, Heyer, etc. - some of my favorites! 🎉

The tough part will be narrowing down my “possibles” stack 🤣

Stray Rescue (which enriched our lives with Bell and Ted 🐶❤️) is having an art auction.

This is one of the pieces! 😍😍

“Nick, Nora & Asta too”
Artist - Maxine Thirteen

I‘m already afraid I will be outbid! 😭

https://e.givesmart.com/s/:g9XV6bOhFNH/e/qRf/i/

1. 👵🕵️🌂🎨🏡🐓

2. I can‘t think of a novel off the top of my head, but I would love a sequel to Bread Toast Crumbs. Beautiful photography, and more important, delicious recipes!

3. Made for a few highly enjoyable lunches! (Tagged in comments)

Thanks @robinb for the tag! ❤️

#wondrouswednesday

This is a truly “feel good” cozy mystery. A start-over story for Kate, a NY pastry chef, who lands unemployed in a small town in FL. She is reluctantly given a job at The Cookie House (no cookies for sale, just bread!), but she is quickly drawn into the small town family when her new employer is charged with murder. I love the friendship between Kate & Maxi, the flower shop owner next door, and the positive vibe of all the characters. 🥰

Quite entertaining 😄 I was intrigued by the title & blurbs: “high class humor” & “immortalizing the ridiculous”, but I was unfamiliar with the book & author. Patrick McManus was a writer of outdoorsy humor & a frequent contributor of pieces to periodicals. This book is a collection of stories about his misadventures - hunting (including grasshoppers), fishing, etc with friends. Fun as bedtime reading, but LOLing isn‘t good for winding down 😆

Just found this in a secondhand shop! 🥰 My French isn‘t quite there, but I could muddle through. 😅

I thought of you when I saw it @BennettBookworm - The thing about Tintin is it has more pictures 🤣

Billed as “Part 3 of the Jeeves and Wooster Series”, and read by Jonathan Cecil (my favorite!)

It turns out Jeeves & Wooster are not in the story, but still a lot of fun! As is customary in a Wodehouse tale, quite a few characters are in a jam. The fun is seeing how the jam really gets sticky before it is all worked out! The unconventional Lord Freddie Ickenham undertakes to remedy the little problems and bring the sundered hearts together.

Your recipe cards were lovely @BennettBookworm ! The bell pepper and cinnamon rolls drawings are fabulous, and make the recipes even more special! 😊 I haven‘t ever had potato knish, but I‘m already reading Smitten Kitchen‘s post, and I have to try those too!

Suzanne, I love it all! The book came in cute wrapping with a card. So nice! ❤️ The cover is so cool, and I‘m excited to read AA Milne‘s mystery! The recipes you chose sound so good! Chris (husband and partner-in-food) is particularly looking forward to the cinnamon rolls. 😄 Your cards are gorgeous! They will have their own post!

Thank you so much!

The recipes are here! #recipeswap

1. The next Miss Zukas mystery! I‘m currently reading the tagged, and I‘ve read the previous 5 back to back! They are fabulous! 6 more in the series 😊

2. No need for music - I quickly get immersed in the world created by the book.

#Two4Tuesday

I‘m late on this - but 👋 @Gissy and @Chrissyreadit

Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead

My #recipeswap package is on its way!

Chrissy, what a fun surprise! The tea and vinegars sound really interesting (and look so pretty!), and the soap smells perfect for spring! The story on the nonpareil chocolates was very cool, too! And I love grapefruit, so the bath salts are perfect! Thank you so much!

Reminds me of a mash-up between a British classic cozy and vaudeville. Miss Marple meets the Marx Brothers? Mystery and misdirection

Quite fun! Knowing the plot and resolution, I plan to reread next Christmas to see how that changes my perception of events. (And how much I remember in 10 months! 😆)

Now, we are celebrating #200PnPcovers, and our favorite #soldier has returned! This year, he is joined by Lydia, lovely and glowing, fresh from a #walk! (Poor Ted)

[Unfortunately, we could not get them in the same photo, as Lydia kept attempting to disrobe Wickham. 😆]

Congratulations, Cynthia! I‘m so glad I got to celebrate your 200 party with you! ❤️

Four years ago, Wickham came to town to celebrate Cynthia‘s #150PnPcoverparty ! (Poor Bella)

Well…

“Young ladies must guard their reputation at all times; a male relative or servant should accompany you when travelling.
…
Lady Catherine de Bourgh insists it would be ‘highly improper‘ for Elizabeth Bennet and Maria Lucas to #travel unaccompanied by post: ‘Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.‘ Elizabeth reassured her ladyship that her uncle would send a servant for them.”
#200PnPcovers

“You‘ll begin your day writing letters, or perhaps going shopping before breakfast, which is served about half-past nine or ten o‘clock. Ladies usually breakfast on a dish or cup of fragrant #tea or coffee, chocolate and rolls or toast in the breakfast room, or in front of a roaring fire in the family library; or the servant may bring you breakfast in bed. Gentlemen tuck into heartier fare: eggs, fish and meat.”

#200PnPcovers

Using the traditional vows from the Book of Common Prayer (1549), we assume Mr. Bennett took Mrs. Bennett “in #sickness and in health … til death do us part” and it‘s death‘s parting the Bennetts fear. For then, “Mr. Collin‘s may turn you all out … as soon as he pleases”

#200PnPcovers

Primogeniture has unfortunate consequences for an eldest son‘s siblings. Younger brothers must find themselves a profession: the army or navy, the church, a government sinecure, the law, or if there is no alternative, commerce (not genteel)

In Northanger, you have the rakish Captain Tilney as the elder son and heir, and Henry as the clergyman. Henry is very comfortably placed - the only unfortunate circumstances are his #sibling and father!

“In Emma, Mr Knightley‘s estate manager, William Larkins, is very pleased when lots of apples are sold from Donwell Abbey farm. If you have plenty of land but little spare cash like Mr Knightley, you can dine on luxuries like fresh strawberries from the gardens.

#Rich landowners, like Pride and Prejudice‘s Mr Darcy, have hothouses for growing tender fruits such as grapes, nectarines and peaches.”

#200PnPcovers

My favorite story from this book! And it covers a few prompts 😉

Jane was helping to nurse her brother through a nasty illness when one of his doctors, who also attended the Prince Regent [ruling in place of his #parents] realised that Jane was the author of #Pride and Prejudice. One day he told Jane that the Prince ‘often‘ read her #novels and ‘kept a set in every one of his residences.‘ Accordingly he informed the Prince she was in London. ⬇️

“#Music is considered an ideal accomplishment for young ladies and Jane Austen‘s brother Henry recalled that when at Chawton, she ‘practised [the pianoforte] daily, chiefly before breakfast.‘”

#200PnPcovers

Jane was quite pleased her books earned #money

“Austen‘s books turned a modest but welcome profit, even though they were published at her own expense. By the summer of 1813 she had received 648 for the copyright of Pride and Prejudice, plus another 660 profit from Sense and Sensibility (which had sold out). … ‘I have now, therefore, written myself into 6a8, which only makes me long for more,‘ she wrote to her brother Frank.

#200PnPcovers

Mr Darcy‘s cousin Miss de Bourgh is destined to have a ‘very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates,‘ - according to George Wickham. 🙄

#marriage #200PnPcovers

The Royal Mail service was overhauled in 1784, when entrepreneur John Palmer‘s plan was adopted of sending #mail by coach, instead of postboys on horseback. … On special occasions such as May Day, or when there‘s important news like Nelson‘s victory at Trafalgar, the mail coaches and horses are festooned with ribbons and decorations.

#200PnPcovers

I think Elizabeth is generally laughing at you, not with you. 😆😂

#laughter #200PnPcovers

“This book will help you find your feet in Austen‘s England, whether you are a fond parent hoping to launch your sons and daughters into the best society, a young gentleman or lady looking for #love , or a traveller keen to enjoy all the amusements that the towns and countryside have to offer.”

#200PnPcovers

Traveller Richard Ayton was shocked when he visited the genteel resort of Parkgate, Cheshire in 1813:

Few of both sexes thought it necessary to hide themselves under the awning of bathing machines: posts, with ropes fastened to them, are fixed into the sands, and these were taken possession of by numerous groups of women, six or seven in a row, jumping, ducking, laughing and screaming, evidently as careless of being seen as of being drowned.

“The marriages of minors (people under 21) who wed without their parents‘ consent are not legal, even with a special licence. But Hardwicke‘s Act does not apply to Scotland: there it is legal for people as young as 16 to marry without parental consent.

The village of Gretna Green lies temptingly just over the Scottish border, and it is the first destination of choice for #hundreds of runaway marriages.”

#200PnPcovers

After our recent cold snap, this spoke to me 😆

On 28 December 1798, Parson Woodforde complained in his diary that it was so cold that: ‘it froze in every part of the House – Milk & Cream tho‘ kept in the Kitchen all froze – Meat like blocks of Wood – It froze in [the] Kitchen even by the fire in a very few Minutes... Even the Meat in our Pantry all froze & also our Bread – I think the Cold was never more severe in my Life‘

#houses #200PnPcovers

“Jane wrote to Cassandra: I have received a very civil note from Mrs Martin, requesting my name as a subscriber to her library... Mrs Martin tells me that her collection is not to consist only of novels, but of every kind of literature, etc. She might have spared this pretension to our family, who are great novel-readers, and not ashamed of being so; but it was necessary, I suppose, to the self-consequence of half her subscribers.”

#200PnPcovers

When Thomas Moore stayed in London for the first time in April 1799, he wrote to his mother: ‘… if I had indulged in going out often… there is scarce a night that I should not be at some female #gossip party, to drink tea, play a little crambo [a rhyming game], and eat a sandwich.‘

#200PnPcovers

I love the #friendship between Jane and Cassandra, as evidenced in their entertaining letters. #200PnPcovers

#embroidery #200PnPcovers

‘Henry drove so well – so quietly, – without making any disturbance, without parading to her, or swearing at them [the horses] – so different from the only gentleman-coachman whom it was in her power to compare him with! … To be driven by him, next to being #dancing with him, was certainly the greatest happiness in the world.‘

#200PnPcovers

‘Horsemen and footmen, carriages of every description and every shape, waggons and carts and covered carts, stagecoaches… coaches, chariots, chaises, gigs, buggies, curricles and phaetons; the sound of their wheels ploughing through the wet gravel was as continuous and incessant as the roar of waves on the sea beach.‘

#200PnPcovers #conveyances

The London ‘season‘ is the busiest time of the year for socialites, and the nobility and great county families like Mr Darcy‘s in Pride and Prejudice keep a house in town. The ‘season‘ begins early in the New Year and continues until early summer, when families decamp to their #country retreats or fashionable watering holes.

#200PnPcovers

(📷 Pemberley aka Lyme Park)

“During the winter months you‘ll often see the city wreathed in thick smoke; it wears a more cheerful aspect in spring and summer.”

#200PnPcovers #city

#200PnPcovers

“A family with children living on Qc–5,000 p.a. needs 11 female and 13 male servants: ‘A Housekeeper, Cook, Lady‘s Maid, Nurse, two House-maids, Laundry-Maid, Still-room Maid, Nursery-maid, Kitchen-maid, and Scullion, with Butler, Valet, House-Steward, Coachman, two Grooms, one assistant ditto, two Footmen, three Gardeners, and a Labourer.‘”

“When Catherine Morland attends her first ball in the Upper Rooms at Bath in Northanger Abbey, the ball-room is so crowded that she can see very little of the dancers except ‘the high feathers of some of the ladies‘.”

#balls #200PnPcovers #PnPCovers

#200PnPCovers #PnPCovers

Join us next month for a Pride and Prejudice themed March 2022 daily picture challenge!

Any who post daily will receive physical rewards from @CrowCAH in the form of P&P and Jane Austen themed bookish goodies!

We can‘t wait to see your posts!!!

#PnPCovers #200PnPCovers

In March, @CrowCAH will be celebrating reaching 200 books in her P&P collection with a daily challenge!

I am so excited to cohost with her! 🥰

More info coming soon!

New to me cozy series from our nearby indie.

Published in the 60s, these sounded fun! Miss Seeton is a retired art teacher who also investigates. Comparisons to Miss Marple clinched it.

My first 10K! A few days ago this trail would have been a scenic dirt path - 10 inches of snow a few days ago made it a beautiful, crazy challenge!

The trail is the Bootlegger‘s Run (due to the history of the area), so the swag was a growler and really delicious Irish Red Ale with honey.

So much fun, but after that, I‘m limiting my activities for the foreseeable future to reading and eating. 🤣

Me - “So many tantalizing cookie recipes to try”

Also me - “You don‘t have time to make cookies”

Me in response - “Clearly your priorities are all out of whack”

Such a gorgeous book! Excellent photography, great description, and a nice balance of classic and adventurous recipes.

Gisela, what a lovely package! ❤️❤️❤️ I am so excited to read the books you choose (and I absolutely love the covers!) and what a pretty book journal! Such a cool idea for saving thoughts, quotes, etc. from books read. A fun mug for fall with its own matching coaster (I always need coasters!), P&P socks?, and very cool bookends! Bell and Ted totally approve ?? And the most delicious turrón! Thank you so much!

Why yes, I am still celebrating the holidays 🎄

A Christmas gift (to myself), perfectly suited to enjoy “after Christmas” 😄

I forgot I didn‘t post this, yet! Thank you so much for the Christmas greetings, Cynthia and Robin! I hope you both had a wonderful holiday! ❤️🎄