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#PemberLittens OMG! OMG! OMG! Pride and Prejudice on the big screen! https://www.focusfeatures.com/pride_and_prejudice

I've got my tickets. 🎟
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

It was so fun to revisit this with the #PemberLittens

I listened to the Whoa!mance Public Access Readalong of P&P over the last few years. One chapter at a time broken up over weeks. Morgan and Isabeau absolutely delight me but unfortunately I'll never be a true Austen fan. I know this is grave heresy.

Pick here for Whoa! commentary.

Ch. 23/24: Sir William announces Charlotte's engagement to Collins and the Bennet women just about lose their minds. Lydia is a total dick about it and Lizzy has to tactfully interject some well-wishes, and Mrs. B is livid. Then Caroline writes that their party won't return to Netherfield, and btw, Miss Darcy is just SO amazing. Jane tries to be calm but Mr. Bennet turns the whole thing into a joke (see the Reddit user below who clocked his ass).

Ch. 15/16: The ladies meet up in town with Denny and his hot-as-hell friend, Wickham. Elizabeth clocks some weird vibes between him and Darcy when the latter rolls up, but doesn't get the scoop until the next night. Wickham pours out the whole sordid tale in some very pretty language, all deference and faux-humility. You've to give it to him, he does a clever job of getting ahead of what Elizabeth knows and spinning the story to his advantage.

The days run on and Elizabeth is still sequestered at Netherfield, and girl just can't wait to pack up Jane and get home. She does get to engage in some solid verbal sparring with Darcy, though, and he begins to realize just how hard he's falling for her. Caroline continues her whole "look at me, pay attention to meeee!" game with Darcy and it's pretty satisfying to watch how he shuts her down. Finally, at last, the Bennets make their way home.

#PemberLittens this is perfect for last couple of chapters. 😆 #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#Pemberlittens after a busy weekend, enjoying some quiet time. Listened to March Episode of A Jane Austen Year Podcast.
https://spoti.fi/4h7i6uk March was all about snowdrops, excellent potatoes and many cups of tea.

Then Ch 5 & 6. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

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#Pemberlittens I switched to audiobook for Chapters 3 & 4. We're building raised veggie garden bed and yesterday was a lot of work. I listened with my morning tea.

"In understanding Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever."

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#coverstories #eveninggown

#PemberLittens Hello March! Cozy reading corner in my library is ready.

How will you be reading? Audiobook or Print? P & P is 61 Chapters. That's 2 a Day with one left for March 31st. Or will you binge read. Myself, I read Chapter 1 this morning. Busy weekend but I got up early to start. Will finish over next few days.

I'm excited to see everyone editions. Tag me so I can see. 🎩 📖📚

#janeaustenthenandnow

Second time reading through this. I enjoyed it more than the first time around thanks to Ballarat National Theatre.

Celebrating Austen 250 years after her birth. https://youtu.be/jqWaFM3ojeI?si=FlgJXCfuJjmopDsK

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

Another thing I got from my indie bookstore shopping. The cards are gorgeous. I also think it's ingenious to have them be dual purpose.

Focus Features send an email with merch celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1995 film of P&P. This one made me laugh & cringe at the same time! 😁

#Pemberlittens Happy Pride and Prejudice Day! Published on this day in 1813.

#PemberLittens #JaneAusten

@GondorGirl notified me as to these bookish boxes being sold at Michael‘s!

Thank you 😘

Many joys this week!
1. Stopping by Bollman Bridge on the way home from a lovely Christmas Eve service.
2. Magnet from a book club member when we had our social gathering at the winery.
3. Cool t-shirt and a P&P pin from my sister.
4. Cheesy holiday movies.
5. Christmas Eve Eve dinner with friends.
#5joysfriday

It‘s a beautiful paperback edition from my boxed set that I bought last weekend. There are SO many editions!!! I can‘t find this one on the list so I‘m just adding this photo.

Do I speak a lick of Spanish? No. Did I let that stop me from buying this beautiful Spanish edition when we were in Argentina? Also no. Maybe this is how I‘ll learn the language!!

Woo hoo!

Thanks for the #Two4Tuesday tag @TheSpineView🤗

1️⃣ I have a little Swedish date book from 1901 that has my dad‘s family birthdays, weddings, babies & deaths recorded in it.

2️⃣ I have to pick my favorite book which will always be relevant to me & I hope to future generations.

One of my favourite bits of last weekends Jane Austen Festival in Bath was the Regency fair! The opportunity to pick up ribbons and notions and bonnets and corsets!

Dancing lessons at the Assembly Rooms ahead of the ball!
Had a fab weekend at the Jane Austen Festival….. thinking this would make a great Reading Retreat!

I spent last weekend in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival - taking notes for next year when a group of friends and I are going to the ball!

#two4tuesday

1. Several places, including family and good friends.

2. Lizzy had great inner strength. She lived her life on her terms despite societal constraints, and yet, also tried to help her siblings.

#AboutABook #StunningCover

One of my favorite P & P covers.

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘ve always enjoyed classics, but they tend to get a wee boring or confusing during the middle of the novels due to the long sentences and old writing style; however, this book never did that! Jane Austen wrote a masterpiece that captivated me the entire time. The plot was simple yet intriguing and the relationships between the characters were humorous and well-written. I love it!

My souvenir from the Library of Congress gift shop. This just seemed fitting for both me and the moment.

I got this edition in Bath on a trip last year 💙
#classicyouread
#aboutabook

A comfort reread, never fails to make me smile

Absolute delight as always rereading Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time. I'm particularly happy that because I did Chapter A Day with a Facebook friend as well as #PemberLittens, I will have something Pride and Prejudice every day from June 1st to July 31st in my Facebook memories. 🎩

#JaneInJuneJulyandAlways

Thanks for joining in!
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"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them." - The End ?

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#Pemberlittens

"Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."

Here's a lovely pic Himself took of Chatsworth House. It was Pemberley in 2005's Pride and Prejudice movie

#JaneInJuneJulyandAlways

"But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you." - Chapter 58

Darcy being Darcy. ?

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#Pemberlittens

I have seen this wonderful movie version more times than I have read the book. I wish I could pay a historian specializing in Regency England to watch it with me and answer all my questions. For example, what is that long brush on Jane's vanity? She is brushing her hair with a normal brush, so what is that?

#PnPCovers

220. 2024 Odd Dot by Macmillan Publishing Group

Went to a new Barnes and Noble location near me and saw this book rest, which advertised none other than Pride and Prejudice! It was not inducement enough to purchase said book rest, but tickled me pink to see P&P 🥰

I thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands." Chapter 51

Time for tea and a chapter. ???

#JaneInJuneJulyAndAlways

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207. 2023 Fall River Press, Barnes & Noble by Union Square & Co

"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it." Chapter 40
#JaneInJuneJulyAndAlways

I blame Walmart. Pushing my cart through store, there this beauty was, right on the endcap. #PemberLittens Walmart isn't the place where I shop for books usually. Occasionally I might pick up a copy of a Bestseller I've been meaning to read. ?

#PnPCovers

204. 2007 Barnes & Noble Inc

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203. 2019 Canterbury Classics, Printers Row Publishing Group

"Will you do me the honour of reading that letter?" Chapter 35

One of the extras included in Marjolein Bastin edition of Pride and Prejudice is Mr. Darcy's letter to Elizabeth.

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'In this quiet way, the first fortnight of her visit soon passed away." Chapter 30

#Pemberlittens after a big gardening project and two Birthday celebrations, it was lovely to spend Sunday puttering in my Library and organizing my collection.? ??

#JaneInJuneJulyAndAlways
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#Pemberlittens probably know this. First-edition was printed as a set of three volumes.

So today's chapter number depends on whether edition you're reading follows the original: Volume 2 - Chapter 1 or if it goes sequential, its Chapter 24.

I'm going with Chapter 24 because it's easier for me to keep track. And today's quote: "Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men."?
#JaneInJuneJulyandAlways

We watched this movie, as well as Mash in honor of Donald Sutherland. Since we have been stuck in the downstairs of our house which -yay!- has AC we have been watching lots of movies, documentaries, etc. Now I want to reread P & P but maybe that‘s for July/August. Too many books this month!!!
Both these editions have lovely illustrations- in the edition on the right they are in color;in the edition on the left they are in black and white.

"He was too happy, however, to need much attention; and luckily for the others, the business of love-making relieved them from a great deal of his company." Chapter 23

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