JaneAustenThenAndNow

The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen, David M. Shapard

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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Crinoline_Laphroaig And now it's time to get on with my day. While it's fine to look back, wallowing isn't healthy or productive. Life has moved on and it's good. 2d

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2d

Lcsmcat ❤️ 2d

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Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes & Gentlemen Rogues | Katie Oliver, Amy D'Orazio, Karen M Cox

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Good start to December. I finished both tagged book and Rational Creatures. Anthologies are often a mixed bag but I enjoyed most of the stories. Standouts:
For Mischief's Sake by Amy D'Oramzio featuring Captain Fredrick Tilney. Such a great redemption arc! I loved Catherine Morland's part in that.

I particularly loved Where the Sky Touches the Sea by KaraLynne Mackrory featuring The Crofts. ⬇️

Crinoline_Laphroaig Such a lovely story about the importance of not only love but friendship in a marriage. And just because you can't have children, doesn't mean you're life is empty. ⬇️

Rational Creatures

Crinoline_Laphroaig "I have learned that, when rough waters come, you cannot sit upon the decking and rage against the storm. You cannot scream at the wind and lash out at the rain on your face. Doing so will do nothing but allow the storm to beat upon you with greater vengeance and perhaps steal from you your life. No, when the waters are not calm, you must secure the boat, rigging and sails. Brace yourself and, with your crew beside you, face the storm."
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peanutnine

Persuasion | Jane Austen

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Finished last month for #JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig
1. This was my third time reading but first time in print instead of audio. Still tied for my favorite with P&P! 💌
2. This time around my favorite side character was Charles Musgrove. He acts truly brotherly towards Anne, with genuine care. Plus he is a saint to put up with Mary
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peanutnine 3. Favorite scene is the letter of course, but also right after the accident in Lyme when Wentworth appreciates Anne's competency and asks for her opinion. It's such a turning point for them
4. A quote that stood out to me this time: "She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped." 2d

peanutnine 5. I'd choose Bath in Northanger Abbey only because I'd want to go dancing
6. Sir Walter rates pretty low in my opinion. Not just because he is financially irresponsible but because of the pure indifference he shows Anne
7. Retire to the country
8. I normally don't like second chance romance but this story is just so beautifully told with wonderful characters. Anne's inner monologue, especially when meeting her past lover again, is so relatable 2d

Crinoline_Laphroaig It's such perfection! I always wonder at what Charles thought process was to go from proposing to Anne to marrying Mary. Such extremes. Didn't he realize he could look for love outside the neighbourhood? 2d

Crinoline_Laphroaig Also I love that edition of Persuasion. I just feels good in your hands. 2d

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Bookwormjillk

Emma of 83rd Street | Audrey Bellezza, Emily Harding

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I‘m catching up on #JaneAustenThenAndNow

This version of Emma set in NYC was pleasant enough. Reader beware if you don‘t like open door it starts off very PG but the last quarter was fairly X 😂 A whole other side of Knightley.

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TheBookHippie 👀 3d

Crinoline_Laphroaig Other side of Knightley. 😆 I've read this one and I gave 4 stars on Goodreads although I don't remember much about it. 2d

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The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen, David M. Shapard

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I can't believe we're at the end of ‘Then‘ books!
My answers in comments.

#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#PagesOfPersuasion

Crinoline_Laphroaig 1️⃣ According to Goodreads this is my 8th reading. Mostly I read in print. A couple of busy days I switched to beautifully read Juliet Stevenson audio book.

I must confess, on first reading as a young woman it didn't speak to me the way that Pride and Prejudice did. 30 years later I revisited after reading on Modern Mrs Darcy Blog https://modernmrsdarcy.com/ that it was a perfect fall read. My older eyes saw its beauty.⬇️
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Crinoline_Laphroaig 2️⃣ I love the Crofts, they're just running around the countryside and living their best lives. Sir Walter, Elizabeth, and Mary are all horrible so they as a group are my worst.

3️⃣ The Letter! I swoon every time.

4️⃣ Obviously the letter but also “But I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”⬇️

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Crinoline_Laphroaig 5️⃣ You know it's going to be Northanger Abbey for me. I'll take any opportunity to run into Henry Tilney. 6️⃣ Sir Walter is definitely vainest. He is a bit more present, instead of retreating to the library like Mr. Bennet. But even when he's there he's always going to say something horrible. 7️⃣ Retire to the country. I need a garden. 8️⃣ Continue to be surprised at the ages of characters that I used to think of as ‘old‘. Mrs. Croft is 38.⬇️

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Crinoline_Laphroaig 🎁 December is time for Persuasion ‘Now‘ retellings and movies. I also want to do a wrap Discussion Post of all 6.

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Jane and the Damned: A Novel | Janet Mullany

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As lover of Jane Austen and member of Fictional Hangover's https://www.fictionalhangover.com/ Vampire Book Club I definitely had to read Jane and the Damned.

I think author did a good job of mixing Jane and Vampires. Love story was bit silly, but enjoyable read. I'm putting Book 2 Blood Persuasion on my December reading tbr.

#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#PagesOfPersuasion

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Andrea313

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical | Helena Kelly

It's been a loooong year with this book! Kelly's ideas offer some real ups and downs- the undercurrent of violence and unrest in P&P, sure; but Northanger and the danger of pregnancy? Half siblings in Wickham and Darcy, Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax? I have to laugh. The chapter on Persuasion is bland by comparison, framing the novel as commentary on the uncertainty and malleability of all things, from great empires to the human heart. 👇👇👇

Andrea313 But what I really appreciate about this book, in spite of (because of??) the moments that feel like a bizarre reach, is the fact that Kelly is working to show us "that Jane is an artist, that her work is carefully considered, structured, themed, that she uses her writing to examine the great issues of her day." This kind of treatment is applied to to male writers every damn day, so I love seeing Austen and her worlds taken very seriously ??? 1w

Andrea313 and mined for meaning, nuance, symbolism, and a sense that she had very real and important things to say about the time and place in which she lived. After all, what else keeps bringing us back to her work all these years later? #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow 1w

Daisey I felt much the same about this one. It had fascinating ideas to consider, but some seemed an incredible stretch. 1w

Crinoline_Laphroaig Just from the review I agree with @Daisey. 1w

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Bookwormjillk

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

I completely re-did my December #BookspinBingo list once I saw the 2026 #TOBLonglist

I think I have it now. Books tagged in the comments.

TheAromaofBooks

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Recipe for Persuasion: A Novel

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Seeds of Revenge

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Immortal in Death

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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The Good Lord Bird

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The Correspondent: A Novel

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Falling for Snow: A Naturalist's Journey Into the World of Winter

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The Trackers

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The Catch

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Blob: A Love Story

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The Shadow King

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The Queen Who Came in from the Cold: The brand new 2025 murder mystery starring the Queen

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Winterland: A Novel

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Sky Daddy: 'Deliciously weird' Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

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We Do Not Part

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w

BkClubCare I have looked at library for the first few and got so discouraged. I don‘t know how all you LongListers DO IT!! #sigh 2w

Bookwormjillk @BkClubCare my city has a reciprocal agreement with DC public library and I‘ve been able to get a bunch with their Libby app. I‘ve used Everand credits for a few too. It‘s definitely a hunt! 2w

BarbaraBB Yay! 2w

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The Annotated Persuasion | Jane Austen, David M. Shapard

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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#janeaustenthenandnow
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BookishMarginalia Love the photo! 2w

eeclayton I find that each book of hers benefits from the chapter-a-day pace, but Persuasion especially. It was lovely to savour the daily sections this November ❤️ 2w

Crinoline_Laphroaig @eeclayton With 24 Chapters, I've done it as Advent Calendar for December as well. 2w

Crinoline_Laphroaig @BookishMarginalia it was beautiful fall rainy day. 2w

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Andrea313

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter | William Deresiewicz

Stopping for mid-morning tea and time to finish Deresiewicz's excellent reflections on Austen. I've always really enjoyed this book, and it was fun to read it this year chapter by chapter after each associated work. In Persuasion, he focuses on the meaning of friendship and chosen family. After all, Anne didn't have much love from her family circle but "she found, at Lyme, what she did not know she'd been searching for: something to belong to."

Andrea313 #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow #WeeklyWentworth 2w

Crinoline_Laphroaig I really need to reread this book! 2w

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