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Tonight's dance is a total let-down since the Thorpe siblings prove they're the absolute worst, abandoning and ignoring Catherine. On the plus side, Henry Tilney is back! He's with a young lady but instead of flying into a jealous rage about it, Catherine sensibly, and correctly, assumes the girl is his sister. Sadly, Cath has to turn down Henry's invitation to dance because she's stupidly promised herself to John Thorpe, resident dirtbag.

Ch.8
Catherine sits abandoned by Isabella and her brother waiting for John Thorpe to come claim his dance (which he is far less eager to do now that the opportunity is present) when she sees Mr. Tilney with his sister (whom she does NOT mistake for his wife).

Despite this, she cannot dance with him as stupid John Thorpe keeps getting in the way and Isabella is too distracted making sure she is the center of attention to commiserate.

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
Well, this one oughta be fun! I'm such a sucker for book lists. 🤣
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1700s
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging Littens who played last week. 🤩

I think it's fun the difference between a quiz today vs Northanger Abbey. You can play here: https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/the-jane-austen-quiz/which-regency-style-is-for-y...

But more importantly Henry Tilney is back‼️? "He looked as handsome and as lively as ever,"......

#PemberLittens #TalkTilneyToMe
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

Is this Austen‘s way of letting us know that we have met the villain already?

Doesn‘t like reading

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

A #kindlefreebie today. #kindledeal #janeaustenretelling #pemberlittens

Ch.7
The girls are nearly run down by Isabella's brother John who is out driving with Catherine's brother James (who is googly-eyed over Isabella).

John is an ill-mannered fellow and will NOT stop going on about his horse despite no encouragement and then proceeds to rate the attractiveness of every woman passing.

But he insists Catherine is the most charming ever, so she is too easily flattered to think as ill of him as she ought.

Welp, it's a recycled meme but it's the best I've got to sum up what it's probably like to spend even 10 minutes with John Thorpe, one of Austen's most boorish and contemptible men. Within moments of meeting Catherine he's droning on and on about his ride, and then swiftly moves to judging the looks of random women in the street and being an utter ass to his mother and sisters. Can someone kick this man in the balls with extreme haste, please?!

When you meet a man and it's so obvious that he's not Henry Tilney. 🎩

“Udolpho! Oh, Lord! not I; I never read novels; I have something else to do.” - John Thorpe.

#PemberLittens #TalkTilneyToMe
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

Today's chapter shows us Catherine being the most YA paranormal romance BookTok-obsessed teenager who ever lived, and I'm loving it. Even though she's still got an eye out for Tilney, he really can't compete with her current favorite novel (so relatable). Isabella keeps trying to turn the talk to men but Catherine doesn't want to stray from the mystery of the black veil and Laurentina's skeleton - and honestly, can you blame her??