pick#Pemberlittens how was your August? Caught up on Rational Creatures & Dangerous To Know Anthologies. Really enjoyed NA & MP stories.
MP movie changed important things so it wasn't really in the spirit of Jane. But if you ignored that it was good.
Tagged book is part of Murder on Location series. Not MP but I enjoyed.
Jane Was Here was a delight!
Jane's part of The Watsons was brilliant. Continuation was mediocre.
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pick#Pemberlittens Here's Mansfield Park Discussion Questions. I changed them up a bit because I know MP is a harder read than other Austen and a bit of a struggle sometimes. I'll post my answers later. It's hot. I was out early in the garden watering everything! It's currently 96F/35C. I need a nap. 🤤
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
And that's a wrap on Mansfield Park 2 Chapters a Day Readalong. Discussion Post will be up on July 30th. ?
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"Never had Fanny more wanted a cordial." Wow Mary Crawford is a piece of work. Although at least she doesn't hide her golddigger tendencies.
I think you're gonna need a whiskey Fanny. ?
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“I never will—no, I certainly never will wish for a letter again,” was Fanny‘s secret declaration, as she finished this. “What do they bring but disappointment and sorrow?"
7 WEEKS Edmund!!! You couldn't find time to write Fanny because you were to busy mooning over Mary Crawford.
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"I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought by a clever, agreeable man, than have him driven away by the vulgarity of her nearest relations."
Poor Fanny doesn't want Henry Crawford but she doesn't want him to not want her because of her family.
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Mrs Price is Lady Bertram/out ?.
"her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation,no affection towards herself; no curiosity to know her better,...."
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You haven't seen Fanny in 10 years? No big deal! But have you heard about the Thrush?This family. 🤦🏻♀️
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Shut up Edmund! We don't need your Mansplaining! ?
"But (with an affectionate smile), let him succeed at last, Fanny, let him succeed at last. You have proved yourself upright and disinterested, prove yourself grateful and tenderhearted; and then you will be the perfect model of a woman, which I have always believed you born for.”
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"He had vanity, which strongly inclined him, in the first place, to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly, when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished."
She said NO Henry!
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My read was The Rushworth Family Plot, which I enjoyed more than any since the first book. I feel the Edmund and Fanny she writes is a little OTT, but close enough it doesn't bother me. The romance is heating up and also starcrossed! And there's some fun comeuppances. 😋 (edited) 3w