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I didn't include this quote in my Discussion Post, I've just carried around with me for few days. Today is the 3rd Anniversary of the house fire. It's always going to be a time of contemplation not only of things lost but on good times.

Included in those memories are all the #Pemberlittens who sent me books to rebuild my library. That kindness still feels me with joy.

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I can't believe we're at the end of ‘Then‘ books!
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Ch. 24 (Vol II, Ch XII) Conclusion. "She gloried in being a sailor‘s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance. THE END."

Read the final pages on the Book Porch with rain, cozy blanket, & a wee whiskey. Such a joy to reread a chapter a day.
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Chapter 23 (Volume II, Chapter 11) "The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to Miss A. E." - Persuasion

I love this Signet Classic mass market in my collection. ✉️

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Only one more chapter!

Chapter 22 (Volume II, Chapter 10): "I hope you do not think I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself. I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say. His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read." - Persuasion

Charles Musgrove said something logical. ?

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Ch. 21 (Vol. II, Ch. 9): him. "Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced." - Persuasion.

Mrs Smith spills the tea! ?

Here's a lovely flashback to Pemberlittens readalong back in 2021. We dismantled The Glasshouse and moved it bit by bit to new house. All pieces are neatly stacked in a corner of the shop building, to hopefully rise again one day.

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Chapter 20 (Volume II, Chapter 8.) “You were a good while at Lyme, I think?”

Seaside is such a big part of Persuasion's storyline. Has me thinking about that time I carried The Lonely Shore: Jane Austen and the Sea by Julia Fry with me on vacation just so I could read on the beach.

Because it was a gift I was extra careful not to get it wet or full of sand. 🌊

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Ch19 (Vol II, Ch 7) "While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was already on his way thither. Before Mrs. Croft had written, he was arrived; and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him."

Persuasion just inspires walking. I took late afternoon walk to the pond and read my chapter. ?

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Ch 18 (Vol II, Ch VI) "He was ordered to walk, to keep off the gout, and Mrs. Croft seemed to go shares with him in every thing, and to walk for her life, to do him good."

Time has passed. No longer at Uppercross in Fall, moved on to February in Bath.

Spotted on my walk yesterday, gorgeous red leaves of maple in my yard, looking across to more fall color around neighbors pond. ?

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Chapter 17. (Volume II, Chapter V). "While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune in Laura-place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description." - Persuasion.

Something I've never noticed before. Persuasion has Chapter Titles. I don't remember any other Austen books having anything but numbers. ?

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Chapter 16 (Volume II, Chapter IV):"In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks;" - Persuasion.

I think this cover has made Anne too glamorous but it is a gorgeous edition. ?

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Chapter 15. (Volume II, Chapter III) 'Uppercross excited no interest, Kellynch very little, it was all Bath." - Persuasion.

We need Duckies for all Jane Austen characters!

*I have a busy Saturday so I'm posting tonight. ???

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Chapter 14 (Volume II, Chapter II) - "Give him a book, and he will read all day long.” - Persuasion.

No reading all day for me. We've a spell of warm weather. Average forecast high of 789F/26C today and all through Monday. Cooler temps and rain returns next week. So many fall projects happening! ???

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Chapter 13 (Volume II, Chapter I) "One man‘s ways may be as good as another‘s, but we all like our own best. And so you must judge for yourself, whether it would be better for you to go about the house or not.” Persuasion

Wise Words from Admiral Croft.

Another edition on my Wish List - Dover Thrift Edition paperback. Just love pattern on cover. Very autumnal. ?????

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"no one so proper, so capable as Anne!”- Persuasion. Things go wrong and you need someone like Anne.

I've loved this little seating area I made that looks out over the kitchen garden. Perfect for early morning cups of tea and reading Jane Austen.

Need to make room for citrus trees to overwinter. Will definite bring back in the spring when citrus go back out to the patio. ?☀️??❄️

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November walk inspired by yesterday's chapter. Had our first hard freeze in the morning. Afternoon was perfect for wearing my new Irish sweater and hat. Laphroaig scarf found awhile back on Ebay. I'm slowly replacing things like these that I lost in house fire. Love how they match this Persuasion.

Today we're off to the seaside (virtually) - "The young people were all wild to see Lyme."

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Chapter 10 has inspired me to get out for a November walk this afternoon. Especially since it's cold & I have a new sweater.🍁🍂

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Chapter 9 - "It was soon Uppercross with him almost every day." - Persuasion

Captain Wentworth is causing drama!

Tour of print editions ends w/ Wordsworth Classics. It has such amazing detail. I particularly love it because it was a gift from a Pemberlitten after the house fire. ???

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Chapter 8. "They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing!"

Anne and Wentworth always together but so far away.

Morning cuppa and a chapter from Word Cloud Classic edition. I love the quotes on the cover and it's a book that just feels good in your hands. ???

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Chapter a Day Extra - I really enjoy having this on my Kindle for reference but I don't like reading from it. Annotations distract from the story. After I read my chapter in my print copy I go back and look to see what notes it has. ✍️📖📚

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Chapter 7 “It is over! it is over!” she repeated to herself again, and again, in nervous gratitude. “The worst is over!” - Persuasion.

Captain Wentworth has arrived!

Morning cuppa and a chapter from 1996 Book of the Month Edition. I'm still looking for Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice editions. Love that they include illustrations from Hugh Thompson. 🫖📖📚

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Chapter 6 - "He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him “poor Richard,” been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done any thing to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead."

I love snarky Jane! Morning cuppa w/ gorgeous Clothbound Classic Edition.
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“So, you are come at last! I began to think I should never see you. I am so ill I can hardly speak. I have not seen a creature the whole morning!” Mary the Drama Queen has entered the chat.

Extra big cuppa morning. I don't read a ton of Mass Market paperbacks, prints to small & dark. I make exceptions for ones with charming covers like Signet Classic Persuasion. 🫖📖📚

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Chapter 4 "-but Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen.—" Persuasion

Today I read the backstory of Anne and Captain Wentworth from the Cranford Collection. ???

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Chapter 3 of Persuasion: Sir Walter is a snob and the focus moves to Anne. “A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here.”

This week I'm going to cycle through my collection of print copies. Starting with Signature Gilded Classic. I love the blue and ribbon book mark. 🫖📖📚

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"Anne had been too little from home, too little seen. Her spirits were not high. A larger society would improve them. She wanted her to be more known." Chapter 2.

Poor Anne either overlooked or others decide what she needs. ?

*In addition to my print copies on busy days I'll be listening to Juliet Stevenson.

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Chapter A Day Readalong starts today. Last of our 'Then' reads. I just realized I have seven print copies. One for every day of the week. Which edition will you be reading?

Often called an autumnal novel. Perfect for November.

"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire,was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage;" ???

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#AboutABook

My number one choice for a #ClassicYouRead is Pride and Prejudice but Persuasion is a very close second. 💜

I don‘t own as many copies as I do P&P but here are some of the editions I own

#Pemberlittens it's hard to believe tomorrow is the last Chapter of the last book‼ What a ride❗
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"Oh! you may as well take back that tiresome book she would lend me, and pretend I have read it through." - Elizabeth Elliot

#Pemberlittens Who's done this? Or Skimmed and Read the Last Chapter. ??‍♀️

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#Pemberlittens Listening to Audio because of life and it's Juliet Stevenson. Then I read footnotes in the Annotated.

"In all her novels but her first, Northanger Abbey, there is a young man with great surface charm and attractiveness who tempts the heroine to a degree. The previous four—Willoughby, Wickham, Henry Crawford, and Frank Churchill—all prove untrustworthy in some respect, though in varying degrees."
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The seashore is such a important part of Persuasion. And since I can't make it to Lyme here's a favorite beach I have been to - South Padre Island, Tex.

#Pemberlittens name a beach you love and tag me with a photo. 🏖

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#Pemberlittens 'and to Lyme they were to go.' 🌊
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I hope this isn‘t too late (time def got away from me this week 🙄😄)
I love the owl mugs @BennettBookworm and am excited to enter your #steamygiveaway - such a fun idea 🦉💜
I don‘t own a lot of mugs, sadly - but my fave is one I actually received from a Litsy swap box years ago. And it just so happens to match my current read right now 😍

I've been saving my Persuasion socks to wear this month. And since I'm wearing them with my gardening boots here's a gardening quote:
"I have been several times in the garden with Mackenzie, trying to understand, and make him understand, which of Elizabeth‘s plants are for Lady Russell." ?????‍?
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*Annotated Note in Comments

Came home to fun mail from @CrowCAH ( #litsybookmarkswap) and an early bday surprise I‘m tucking away until Aug 21 from @Mitch (you have spoiled me ridiculously this past month) and BOTM, and my Annotated copy of Persuasion (#pemberlitten) so mail call at #litsysummercamp was pretty spectacular today-

"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one;....."
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Here are my copies of Persuasion. Also have tagged book on Kindle, and Juliet Stevenson reading on Audible.

And I decided on a hashtag for myself:
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A re-read, and still I was glued to the page and couldn't wait for THAT letter. You know the one. Now I'm in the mood for the film adaptations.

Reorganized the books on the shelf above my bed. They're the comfy books I like reaching for just to reread a line or paragraph I love.

Okay, Litsy. I need your advice. I started reading this version of Persuasion because I wanted to reread the book and thought the annotated version might be fun. There is literally a full page of notes opposite each page of text. Does a person really need that much trivia in their brain? Should I ditch this for one of my other editions or tough it out?

I had to leave work early because of a terrible migraine, but after ice and pain meds, I feel well enough to read. I had planned on the tagged book, but I‘m intimidated by the quantity of annotations - a full page of notes for each page of text! So, I think I‘m going to try a new-to-me romance author to see if that‘s more the speed my still aching head can handle. 🤞🏻

#FebruaryFeels #LongWait

It was a long wait for Anne Elliot & Captain Frederick Wentworth but the wait & his almost broken heart & pierced soul led to the letter to rule all letters. (Swoon 💜)

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." (Swoon ?)
I'm rereading my favorite Austen for the bazillionth time and it's making me long for autumn.

“I am so ill I can hardly speak !” Where is my capable Anne? Getting some r&r today to hopefully feel better. #allergies #whydoesspringhavetobesopollony #janeausten #JANEissarilyAUSTENTATIOUS #Janeforcomfort

#QuotsyJan18 #exchange A second chance to exchange feelings and promises that were lost and broken. 💙 #janeaustenknowsall

#QuotsyDec17 #letters 📃🖋Jane Austen's books are full of letters and quotes about them, but I think 'the' letter has to be Captain Wentworth's in Persuasion. If you have never read it, you must even for that letter alone. ❤️I love these two quotes about Anne's anticipation of reading it and on the after effects of reading such a letter. #janeaustenknowsall

Comfort listen. 🙂

R.I.P. Jane Austen, 200 years ago today.

Well this is my kind of readathon. Read what you want to and as much of it as you can. Done! 🙂#HSreadathon #highsummerreadathon