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Miss Mapp (Revised)
Miss Mapp (Revised) | E F Benson
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E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber from the British town of Tilling who spends her days using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, whom she has been trying to marry for years, and the underhanded Miss Susan Poppit.
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Bookwomble
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"He sat down by his table and began to think things out. He told himself he was not drunk at all, but that he had taken an unusual amount of whisky, which seemed to produce much the same effect as intoxication."
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Urgh! Struggling to settle on a book again. I'm hoping a lighthearted visit to Tilling will be the tonic I need. Though a whole book of Mapp without Lucia and Georgie to leaven her bitterness might be strong stuff - only nineteen pages in and she's already hideous! 😄

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Jess_Read_This
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👑 “Now Miss Mapp's social dictatorship among the ladies of Tilling had long been paramount, but every now and then signs of rebellious upheavals showed themselves..”

📖Spending the morning with the ladies of Tilling and a cup of tea. Happy Sunday. The days have been running together slightly as I feel like my life has been on the same repeat weekly. Hope everyone has wonderful reading ahead of them today!

#missmapp #currentlyreading #efbenson

MaGoose The Miss Mapp books have been on my TBR list forever. I guess I need to get started on one soon. 4y
Jess_Read_This @MaGoose They are a hoot! If you start this one, let me know what you think. I‘ve just begun reading it today. We can chat about it! 4y
Cathythoughts Lovely picture 4y
Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts Thank you! The book cover is just so pretty and colorful. I love it! 4y
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LeahBergen
Miss Mapp (Revised) | E F Benson
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Currently reading. 📚📚

I‘m so excited to be heading back into the brilliantly comic imagination of E.F. Benson.

saresmoore Good decision. 6y
Melissa_J Nice mug 😉 6y
CarolynM Love these books. Did you see the recent TV series with Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor? 6y
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LeahBergen @saresmoore I thought so, too. 😉 6y
LeahBergen @Melissa_J Yes, it was a gift from someone with exquisite taste. 😉 6y
LeahBergen @CarolynM I haven‘t yet! I want to wait until I‘m done the series. I‘ll watch it when I‘m done. 😀 6y
Reviewsbylola Your mug is great! 6y
LeahBergen @Reviewsbylola Isn‘t it? It was a gift from the lovely @Melissa_J 😍 6y
LeahBergen @Sarah83 Here‘s one book from the set. 6y
Sarah83 Awwe 6y
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Dolly
Miss Mapp | E. F. Benson
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It was funny at first and then...I got bored.

ReadingVampire Sigh... I hate it when that happens... 6y
LeahBergen Oh no! I love these books. 6y
Dolly @Puredragonstar @LeahBergen I will try another, if only I could remember the one @shawnmooney recommended. The London one? 6y
LeahBergen @Dolly No. The best of the series (and the one that @shawnmooney read) is 6y
Dolly @LeahBergen Thank you ! 💖 6y
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rockpools
Miss Mapp | E. F. Benson
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Marvellously monstrous.

LeahBergen I can‘t wait to start this one. Is she worse than Lucia? 😆 6y
rockpools @LeahBergen 👍Hope you love it! 👗👗🏌🏻🏌🏼💃🏻💃🏻Elizabeth makes Lucia look positively charming - she's got a bit of a nasty streak. Which has been known to backfire 😏 6y
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rockpools
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On seeing one neighbour visiting another, after 9.30pm:

"Instantly, and with strong conviction, she suspected orgies!"

Pic: https://flic.kr/p/7ZUwpv

Tamra 😹 6y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Ha!!! Fantastic photo 6y
LeahBergen 😂😂😂😂 I mean, what else would you suspect? 6y
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Tanzy13 🐱 6y
rockpools @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Thanks 😺 (link above)! It seemed appropriate. 6y
rockpools @LeahBergen 🙀Have I mentioned how much I'm loving these books? Sure you're at least partly to blame! 😽 6y
Cathythoughts Oh my goodness! Cuteness itself 😻 6y
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rockpools
Miss Mapp | E. F. Benson
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Chintz-based oneupmanship, and "the yield of a thousand Swiss condensed cows".

Loving these books, and love-hating the characters immensely - if anything they're more wonderfully awful than Lucia.

EvieBee I love these too! They make not getting invited to candlelit suppers the ultimate slap in the face. 6y
LeahBergen This one is next up in the series for me! ❤️ 6y
rockpools @EvieBee I'd never quite appreciated the work that went into causing maximum offence on all occasions! 😉 6y
rockpools @LeahBergen Have you read them before? Apart from the snark, I'm loving the 1920s social history backdrop to this one. And the creative thriftiness✂️✂️✂️ 6y
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Imagineannie
Miss Mapp | E. F. Benson
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This is the neatest one. Which should tell you something. #litsy #24in48 #readathon

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Verity
Miss Mapp | E. F. Benson
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I'm working my way through the Mapp and Lucia series - because sometimes you need a bit of village oneupmanship! It's a similar sort of humour to the Thirkell, although her main characters are not as monstrous!

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