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I finally remembered to take a picture of my current #Crochet shawl from the Always Austen first quarter shawl box I subscribed to through Wonderland Yarns 🧶

I enjoyed this more than any since the first book. The romance is really heating up and there is *drama*! And the solutions of the mysteries are cleverly deduced.

I'm hoping the next book will have a HEA because I'm not sure my heart can take much more!

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Fanny and Edmund are very happy that Sir Thomas is planning to sell his Antigua plantation, so the family will no longer bear the sin of being involved in the slave trade.

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Another Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mystery for my annual celebration of Austenian August. I love that with each addition to the series, Gray has more of her own characters/lore to weave in & refer to, as well as those of Austen‘s novels that are the foundation.

As this one featured so much from Mansfield Park, I worried I wouldn‘t care for it as much - that‘s my least favorite Austen by a large margin - but I should have had faith. A delight.

Jonathan sighed. He knew the rules of ettiquete as well as any (and better than most), but he could not see the sense of any rule that made it impolite to keep to one's own house and read one's own books.

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

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This is fast becoming my favorite series. The developing relationship between Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy is nicely balanced with an intricate double murder mystery. I think the author remains very true to the spirit of the characters who appeared in the Austen originals as she continues to develop both them and her new characters.

I read this while on vacation, so one of my vacay pics.

It took me a long time to finish this one. While it was informative, I basically had the same issue with it as with the collection of Jane Austen's letters: there were so many names and ordinary events.
It's a well researched and comprehensive biography, and the author is clearly passionate about her subject matter. However, I personally would have been happier with fewer details about the wider social circle around Jane Austen.

Am I ignoring my towering, teetering stack(s) of books at home to read this book that just came in to the library? Why, yes. Yes, I am, thank you for asking.