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This is me walking my dogs. 🙈
Some days I just want to go to my favourite spot in the woods and let my dogs run around while I enjoy some sunshine and a book. After a while I usually get up and walk, eyes still on my book, just as Elizabeth Bennet did, in Pride and Prejudice.

Mixed feelings about this one: loved the affectionate glimpses of mid-20th centuty middle-class Jewish life, the insight into New York theater business, and the occasional philosophizing about shifting mores and the century's central moral crisis. But the title character wastes way too many thoughts on men and too much time as a sounding board for men's ideas; and the resolution feels like a moral that the Old Ways are best.

Customs of courtship vary greatly in different times and places, but the way the thing happens to be done here and now always seems the only natural way to do it.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Not sure if Marjorie is a #luckystar but someday when I read the book I'll find out 😉🌟
#movember

I #crave good coming of age stories. This one is old but timeless (at least from what I‘ve been told. It‘s still on my TBR.) Marjorie is a young woman trying to make it on her own when she is caught up in a torrid love affair. #MOvember

I can‘t remember how long ago I read Marjorie Morningstar.😞

I LOVE the literature clock! How did I not know about this before?!?

http://jenevoldsen.com/literature-clock/

I loved @DebBates101 post about the oldest book she owns; and to both answer her post‘s question and flatter her with imitation I‘m posting my own.

The oldest book I own and have read is my mother‘s copy of Marjorie Morningstar that she read as a teen. (The scribbles on the front cover are from my 4yr old self😱lol)

In the left stack are the books bought in March 😬, on the right are books read in March (some of which were also bought this month!). I also finished the following on Serial Reader: Vanity Fair, The Turn of the Screw, and The Canterville Ghost.

My favorites this month were all from #BOTM! Pachinko, Siracusa, and The Stranger in the Woods.

I've already read more in the first 3 months of 2017 than in all of 2016! Definitely thanks to Litsy! 📚

I'm determined to post an image every day of #marchintoreading and here is my March TBR:

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Shelter by Jung Yun

Also plan to read on my Kindle:

Dawn by Octavia E Butler
The North Water by Ian McGuire

Disclaimer: None of the above is written in stone!!!🤓

Didn't think I had any books in view (have I mentioned my inactivity?😁) with a proper name, then remembered what I bought last week. #titlewithapropername #ReadJanuary

Remember my Book Outlet package? The one that was tracked all over the country? The one that arrived at my house in Michigan YESTERDAY? Yeah.....it says it's in New Jersey today.

#Bookhaul #bookmail- My BookOutlet order arrived! This is also the second time USPS delivered a package to me in the evening. Are nighttime deliveries a thing now?

Classic that takes you back in time.

As I'm "pounding the pavement" of New York just for fun this week, for #Recommendsday I thought of one of the first books that made me fall in love with the city.