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I thoroughly enjoyed Emma much more after reading Rebecca romneys Jane Austen‘s bookshelf‘s , previously I started it a few times and put it to one side finding Emma annoying , a meangirl match making busy body - Austen herself said she‘d created aheroine “whom no one but myself will much like “ oh but this book is packed with sharp observations of human nature and character, I have aneighbouris Miss bates not financially butwith verbal diarrhoea

Exquisite, so tiny. Smaller than a Penguin Classic.
@HOTA Gold Coast, on loan from the National Gallery.

I had the same problem with this as the first book, which is that the whole Austenland experience seems to be a real drag. I skimmed ahead some and am not sorry I bailed.

#JaneAustenThenAndNow #Pemberlittens @Crinoline_Laphroaig

For #JaneAustenThenAndNow I've read the novellas related to Northanger Abbey. There are 3: As Much As He Can deals w General Tilney & it was not bad; The Art Of Sinking is about John Thorpe & I couldn't finish it 😬; For Mischief's Sake is Frederick Tilney's story & the one I liked best of the three.
These stories try to flesh out Austen's rogues, often w an aim of leaving a better impression of them. It sometimes works for me but not always.

Finished last month for #JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig
1. This was my second time reading. This time I understood all the Udolpho references and it really enforced just how popular that book was, to have so many allusions that you know the audience will understand without explanation.
2. Catherine, I love her growth, and Tilney of course
3. I like the scene on the way to Northanger when Tilney
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Please share your favorite Summer read!!! Of all time or so far since Memorial Day!!
I have to say my reading choices have been stellar this season!
#fridaynightshare #naturalitsy
My favorite very Summer themed would be Jane Austen‘s goes to Hollywood and Elizabeth of East Hampton

I am currently about an hour south of Hollywood! I loved this version of Sense and Sensibility! A really fun retelling with some original storylines as well as still recognizable to Austen fans.

#Pemberlittens another one for Northanger Abbey Now. It's Henry and Catherine's daughter and Elizabeth and Darcys son solving crime. I need to read my ARC before June 17 release.
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

As always Austen has masterful character and symbolic work, but Fanny felt a bit too much of an abused victim, that let's themselves get walked all over by others, but deep inside they have strong opinions(tm).

It's not that a meek character cannot be interesting, its that on top of ot all Fanny is very judgemental and puritanical and I did not care for it.