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Emma | Jane Austen

Day 2 and Emma is already testing my commitment to finding the good in her! We did see her tending lovingly to her father once again in these chapters. And she's lonely and isolated and needs a friend, so how nice that she invites Harriet Smith to come hang! Too bad she immediately launches a campaign to shame Harriet about her crush on Mr. Martin, who might not be rich but knows what a woman *really* wants! (A song performed by a shepherd's son.)

Andrea313 #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow 19h

DrSabrinaMoldenReads You understand her by the end. I did not like her at first either. 11h

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AllDebooks

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) | Jane Austen

Trying to relax after an awful week. So much so, this is the first book I've picked up in 4 days! Unheard of.

@Crinoline_Laphroaig #Emma #Pemberlittens

mcipher Awwww I hope it gets better!! ❤️ 1d

Bookwormjillk I hope this week is better for you! 1d

BookmarkTavern Here‘s to a better week! 🩷 1d

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DGRachel I hope your week gets better fast! 1d

Crinoline_Laphroaig Jane Austen is my comfort read. Here's to a better week. 21h

AnnCrystal 💝🫂💝 may your reading relax the stress away 📚💝. 15h

dabbe Time to lose yourself with EMMA. 💛💜🧡 6h

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LitsyEvents

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) | Jane Austen

Repost for @Crinoline_Laphroaig

September means it's time for Emma. My print collection is up to 8. It's a busy month for me. Rather than committing to 2 chapters a day, I'm going to read as I can and listen some.

None of my editions are in the Litsy database so I'll need to add. What edition will you be reading?

#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#EverythingEmma
#Pemberlittens

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2896413

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Andrea313

Emma | Jane Austen

I'm really going to try to give Emma the benefit of the doubt this time! Today I'm calling out two things: first, Emma's evident care for her aging, anxious father; the girl has spent all of her teens graciously managing his emotional and mental health. Second, Mrs. Weston, a whole adult, apparently started treating Emma like a bestie when she was 13?! 😬 Not to be all 2025 about this, but I think we can confidently call Emma a parentified child.

Andrea313 #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow 2d

Andrea313 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Hmm, interesting. I think Emma definitely assumes a caretaker role and prematurely becomes the lady of the house. But I don't think it's all negative for her; she seems to thrive in having power and the ability to arrange most things to to suit her own wishes and desires. While her care of her father must be stifling at times, her situation also allows her to be selfish and self-centered in many ways. 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @Andrea313 That was a bit extreme. I admit. I think it is as you describe it. (edited) 2d

Crinoline_Laphroaig And the power of lady of the house gives her a bit of control, which she likes because of uncertainty of her father's health. 2d

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Andrea313

Emma | Jane Austen

Today the #PemberLittens start the Austen work that challenges me most- because while I admire the skilled construction of this world and the way all the action unfolds, I just don't like the central couple. Will this be the re-read that makes me see the light on spoiled, shallow Emma and scolding Knightley? I'm kicking off with a tattered paperback to see me through a rustic camping trip, then switching to a gorgeous Folio edition. Let's begin!

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads Emma had to grow on me 2d

Andrea313 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads In almost 30 years of reading Austen's work, Emma and I have never gotten there. 😂 But still, I'll try again. 2d

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Crinoline_Laphroaig I think of her as a loveable snob. Plus a few years ago I read article about how Emma was a caregiver for her father. It changed my perspective. She's rich but can't travel anywhere because of him. She's basically tied to her elderly parent. 2d

Andrea313 @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, I read that one, too! And just finished chapter 1 and was reminded of that again- she spends so much of her energy cajoling him along and making things pleasant for him. How absolutely exhausting, and yet she shows up for him every day. I do believe that Emma is loving and loyal. 2d

willaful @Crinoline_Laphroaig I find it interesting that people have written whole books speculating that Mr. Darcy is autistic (The Claudia Grey series perhaps inspired by that) but completely ignore the far more diagnosable Mr. Woodhouse. Emma is definitely a caregiver. Her life revolves around keeping things safe and comfortable for her anxious father. She's never really had a chance to use her gifts. I'd love to see a rewrite that addresses that! 2d

Andrea313 @willaful This crossed my mind today, too! Austen mentions twice that Mr. Woodhouse is "never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself". That kind of inflexible thinking got me pondering more about him. 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @Andrea313 I liked her. Not sure why. She was feisty for that time period. It would have taken a lot of emotional strength 2d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yea 2d

Andrea313 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Agreed on her emotional strength. I do think Emma has the capacity to be generous and loving; it just takes time and experience for her to extend that same compassion to people she thinks are beneath in any way. 2d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @Andrea313 I didn't live with them but definitely remember how exhausting it was dealing with parents health problems. 2d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @willaful so often it's the 'handsome, clever, rich' that gets all the attention. 2d

LeahBergen I feel much the same way about them (and have the same Folio edition 🙌🏻)! 20h

Andrea313 @LeahBergen Yes! Your gorgeous burgundy covers. 😍 19h

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Crinoline_Laphroaig

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) | Jane Austen

September means it's time for Emma. My print collection is up to 8. It's a busy month for me. Rather than committing to 2 chapters a day, I'm going to read as I can and listen some.

None of my editions are in the Litsy database so I'll need to add. What edition will you be reading?

#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#EverythingEmma
#Pemberlittens

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julieclair That gorgeous rose-strewn cover! I‘m having serious envy here! I will be reading on Serial App, as my vintage 1970s Scholastic paperback can‘t withstand another reading, lol. 2d

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AnneCecilie

The South | Tash Aw

#BookReport

I finished both No Straight Road Takes You There and The Cross #KLBR #DoorstopperKristin

I read Eden

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with The South on audio

I‘ve started Seascrapper and want to finish that

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new month and therefore the beginning of some buddy reads; Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and I‘ll pick up Tombland #ShardlakeBR again

AnneCecilie I also want to start on A Thousand Feasts 4d

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Crinoline_Laphroaig

Death in an Elegant City | Sara Rosett

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#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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BarkingMadRead I ended up bailing on mine. 4d

willaful I can't bring myself to watch that version of Mansfield Park. I'd like to read Jane Was Here, if I can find it.

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) 4d

TheBookHippie I failed miserably 🤣😅 on to September! 4d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @willaful it's just such a slow slow slow burn. 4d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @TheBookHippie moving on! 4d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @BarkingMadRead sometimes it's all you can do. 4d

peanutnine I read Manslaughter Park and really enjoyed it! The changes the author makes to the stories for the mystery are always well thought out and true to the spirit I think. Fanny had more character growth which I appreciated 3d

Crinoline_Laphroaig @peanutnine such a beautiful book 3d

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Andrea313

Manslaughter Park | Tirzah Price

It's been getting more and more chilly here in Michigan, so I'm very happy to take advantage of a sunshine-y day with some reading in the garden! Tirzah Price's latest Austen mystery was slow to start for me, but then suddenly I found I'd read more than 200 pages all at once. 😂 Planning to finish out the day with the final third of a different take on Fanny Price and, let's face it, probably a cocktail at some point. Happy Saturday, friends!

Andrea313 #MittenLitten #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow #BooksAndBlooms 4d

peanutnine Nice! I loved the ending of this one 3d

Andrea313 @peanutnine Same here! I'm not usually a Mary Crawford fan but she was great in this remix! 3d

Crinoline_Laphroaig I struggled with her Pride and Premeditation and never went back to. Need to revisit this one. 2d

Andrea313 @Crinoline_Laphroaig That one was by far the weakest imo, I had to force myself to finish. This one and the S&S one were silly fun, if a little slow to start. 2d

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Andrea313

This Motherless Land | Nikki May

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The Mansfield Park influence here was evident at the start, but as the book went on, it fully went its own exciting direction. Two cousins become fast friends when Funke is sent to England from Nigeria to live with her aunt. She navigates a whole new world and encounters blatant racism while both cousins deal with completely dysfunctional family dynamics. The inspiration from Austen shines but the compelling story stands on its own.

Andrea313 #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow #BooksAndBlooms 5d

Ruthiella I need to read this. I loved

Wahala: A Novel

bookandbedandtea This sounds good and was not on my radar. I'll add it to the list! 5d

Andrea313 @Ruthiella I've read mixed reviews on that one, but am glad to hear you loved it! I'll add it to my TBR. 5d

Andrea313 @bookandbedandtea I hope you enjoy it! 5d

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