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I‘m currently listening to an abridged Jane Austen collection (bookcover right) after listening to an audio drama of JA‘s Emma (bookcover left). The production of this audio drama was a touch dated but I like how the script uses narration to bridge scenes of dialogues, and after an hour I warmed to it. I have more JA books for 2025.

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"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"

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"This book is a collection of objects that once populated the world, but do so no longer."

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I'm about halfway through this collection of 85 short essays about defunct and superceded objects and the ideas they manifested. I'm really enjoying it, and while each essay is brief, the information density of reading them in one consecutive stretch is cognitively demanding, so I'm taking a brief break to rest my ?

The darkness throbbed with the clamour of church bells.
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"The letter flutters on the desk, almost keeping time with the footsteps thundering across the floor."

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