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Ouch! Since thereā€˜s only 6, I might as well include them all. I liked or loved these five.
1. Jane Eyre
2. Pride & Prejudice
3. Sense & Sensibility
4. Mansfield Park
5. Wuthering Heights
This one I hated, and it didnā€˜t help that I had to read it twice!
6. The Scarlet Letter
#TLT

Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1700s

5āœØ The re-read just hit me so much better. Jane goes through a lot of heartache starting at a young age. When something is going right it will quickly turn and not work out. While things finally go her way in the end there is still many challenges to overcome. I feel like this is a true romance where things fall apart sometimes and you just have to move on and try to be stronger as time goes on.

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July's Favourite made me realise that Northanger Abbey might have to take a step down from my favourite Classic of all time...

I absolutely adored Jane Eyre, from the neglected little girl to the happily married Wife, and everything in-between.

#12BooksOf2022
@Andrew65

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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I loved rereading Jane Eyre! I remembered the plot, but not the specifics or the writing itself, and I loved the experience of reading this illustrated copy! #pemberlittens #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Spookoween2022 @TheSpineView #31by31 @Catsandbooks #PointsAThon @dieareader @GHABI4ROSES #AutumnAtoZ @Texreader

ā€œI am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut tree in Thornfield orchard,ā€ he remarked, ere long. ā€œAnd what right would that run have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?ā€ #Pemberlittens

I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin. ā€¦ The front was, as I had I‘ve seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high and fragile looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys - all had crashed in. #Pemberlittens

ā€œMy heart is mute, -my heart is mute,ā€ I answered, struck and thrilled. #pemberlittens

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best-born. #pemberlittens

ā€œWho or what speaks?ā€ I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid. A form was near - what form, the pick-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing. #pemberlittens

Disappointment made me reckless. #pemberlittens

Ghosts are usually pale Jane.

This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed; the black eyebrows widely raised over the blood-shot eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?

You may.

Of the foul German spectre - the Vampyre.

But what has befallen the night? The moon was not yet set, and we were all in shadow: I could scarcely see my master‘s face, near as I was. And what ailed the chestnut tree? It writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk, and came sweeping over us. #pemberlittens

ā€œI never laughed at presentiments in my life; because I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, existsā€¦ whose workings baffle mortal comprehension. And signs, for aught we know, may be not the sympathies of Nature with man.ā€œ #pemberlittens

ā€œLike heath that, in the wilderness,
The wild wind whirls awayā€
#PemberLittens

ā€œShe was occupied in knitting: a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beautiful picture of domestic comfort. A more reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived: there was no grandeur to overwhelm, no stateliness to embarrassā€¦ā€ #pemberlittens

A pause - in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained. #pemberlittens

ā€œThe refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which however, to my dismay, sent forth an odor far from inviting.ā€œ #pemberlittens

#Pemberlittens -

A woman on YouTube has created a beautiful arrangement for Bessieā€˜s ballad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzWs74P9W8g

#pemberlittens

Starting our #Pemberlittens chapter a day read today. I love old illustrated books, and sometimes you can find the most amazing inexpensive used books on Etsy like this 1943 edition illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.

ā€œThere was no possibility of taking a walk that morningā€ From the orphanage to Thornberry hall. From the mysterious and handsome Mr Rochester to the poor first wife in the attic. It‘s got it all really. ā¤ļøā¤ļø

Just realized that my copy of Jane Eyre is an abridged version šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø I didn't even know it was done in these older books.

I'm so disappointed šŸ˜”
Gonna try and find an audiobook and catch up on what I missed.

Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë ?????
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...it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal ā€” as we are!

#QuotsyOCT21 day 29: grave

#QuotsyOCT21 day 28: zombie

I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

#QuotsyOCT21 day 24: depart

#QuotsyOCT21 day 21: eerie

Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life.

#QuotsyOCT21 day 20: sloth

ā€œMy Master,ā€ he says, ā€œhas forewarned me. Daily He announces more distinctly, ā€” ā€˜Surely I come quickly!' and hourly I more eagerly respond, ā€” 'Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!'ā€
#JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogger #bookbackpack #bookbackpacks #booknerd #booknerds #booknerdsunite #booknerdy #booknook #booknation #Classics #Fiction #Romance #Gothic šŸ’˜šŸ’˜šŸ’˜šŸ’˜šŸ’˜

This lovely sweatshirt arrived today that I had ordered from Etsy with some Christmas money I had been given. I‘m absolutely in love with it šŸ˜šŸ˜

ā€œFarewell!ā€ was the cry of my heart as I left him.  Despair added, ā€œ#Farewell for ever!ā€ #QuotsyFeb22

"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils."

Everytime i want to quit spotify they improve a little more...they are trying out classic audiobooksšŸ¤“

Merry Christmas!!!!
Christmas is by far my favorite holiday, as I kid I was trying to drag my parents downstairs from 6 am on...As a parent I am so incredibly grateful to be blessed with a kid who likes to sleep in...I feel like I already got a present this morning, time to drink my coffee, let my anxiety meds kick in and drown myself in my favorite book.
#janeeyre #charlottebronte #merrychristmas #coffeetime #dundermifflin #partyplanningcommitee

New episode is out! We talk about our 2021 reading goals. They may not be entirely realistic. These are three classics that I fully intend on tackling in the coming year.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6A6hXZ7eaOG7BtHOSJpCTI

ā€œPrejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.ā€

Jane Eyre is my favorite book, it‘s really only one of two classic books I‘ve ever been able to get all the way through and this poor well worn copy was brand new when I got it about 10 years ago and read it for the first time.
I‘ve decided I want to re-read it every Christmas.
What‘s your favorite book? Do you reread it often?
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Heartandsoulbooks.blogspot.com

#ChristmasQuotes Day 8: #Garland

It wasn't that easy to choose, but I think this is a good overview over my favourite books in 2020.

Thank you for tagging me, @Kdgordon88

#20best2020

1. Yorkshire Dales
2. Tagged!
3. Discworld or the Logan MacRae books
4. Airplane
5. Supernatural is my guilty pleasure
6. Don‘t really have one
7. Teal blue
8. Toss up between sci-fi and fantasy
9. An international school in Bangkok
10. A street cat called Gato šŸˆ who has ALL the sass

#meetthelittens