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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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#PemberLittens I'm going far into the 'Now' for April. Super excited for this! It's such a gorgeous book.

I'm also going to have a look through my Kindle and Audiobooks. I have a ton of them on my TBR and I'm always adding more.
🎩📖🚀 #JaneAustenThenAndNow

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DebinHawaii
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#Read2025

For #Pemberlittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

1. Reread, I‘m not sure how many times as I read it at least every 2 years, often every year… maybe 30? Format: started with the purple beauty, read mostly on my Kindle & finished with the Classics Reimagined version this weekend. I don‘t think my viewpoint has changed too much except for more sympathy for Mary over the years.

2. Elizabeth of course! 💜 Darcy by the end.😉

3. Elizabeth ⬇️

DebinHawaii … going toe-to-toe with Lady Catherine. Such badassery!
4. So many favorite quotes but “and I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE.” Is just perfection
5. Ride in the rain & catch a cold & recover at Netherfield Park
6. Dinner with Caroline to see what she‘d wear. Plus I think the food would be better-I feel like Lady C would not have her food seasoned well! 🤷🏻‍♀️ ⬇️
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DebinHawaii … 7. It‘s close, but Wickham is worse for me.
8. A girl‘s tea with Lizzy, Jane & Mrs. Gardiner. 🫖 No to Mr. & Mrs. Bennet & Mr. Collins.
9. I watched the 1995 series once this month & 2005 twice (it‘s shorter!). While I get the appeal of Matthew Macfadyen, Colin Firth is forever my Darcy.💜
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Crinoline_Laphroaig I'm planning a daylong binge of 1995. #DateWithMrDarcy‼️😍 5h
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Andrea313
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Keeping it reasonable for my April #PemberLittens reading! I've never read Longbourn (!) so it's time, and I can't wait for Jane Austen's Bookshelf. I loved Price's funny S&S mystery so I'm glad to be reading what came before it and Bellezza/Harding's Emma adaptation was so clever that I bought the tagged book the instant it was released. I waited a long time to read it but now seems like the perfect moment, as a kickoff to a month of adaptations.

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Andrea313
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Winding down a quiet, rainy Sunday with some low light and the P&P chapter of this book. In it, the author reflects on how Lizzy taught him what it means to grow up- not through advanced degrees or important jobs, but rather reflecting on your own mistakes and putting in the hard work to change for the better: "For [Austen], growing up has nothing to do with knowledge or skills... it has everything to do with character and conduct." Truer words!

bookandbedandtea Your lamp is so pretty! I recently got this book and I'm ready to dip into it; sounds like it's a good one. 1d
Andrea313 @bookandbedandtea I really enjoy it, and I hope you do, too. Please do post your review when you finish. 1d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love you lamp 💗 1d
Crinoline_Laphroaig I really enjoyed it! 5h
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Andrea313
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Closing out P&P with ch.3 of Kelly's book and Jane's views on "polite society". Much is made of the importance of proper introductions as well as the many clashes of class throughout the novel, but Kelly also points to the presence of the militia and the undercurrent of war and violence lurking beyond our story. But she still needs to throw in an outlandish claim, so brace yourselves- is Wickham actually...Darcy's illegitimate half-brother?! (?)

willaful Well that's just gross. 🤢 2d
Crinoline_Laphroaig WTF‼️ 5h
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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#PemberLittens for discussion of Pride & Prejudice! Answer here or make your own post just tag me so I see it. My answers:

1️⃣ Swapped between print and audiobook read by the fabulous Rosamunde Pike. Umpteenth reread. When I first started tracking my reading with Goodreads, I estimated that I had read P & P every other year since I was 14. Using that low estimate plus actually keeping track since 2017, makes this my 20th time reading. ⬇️

Crinoline_Laphroaig One thing that has changed over the years is how I view Mr Bennet. Younger me laughed at his quips. Older me realizes he wasn't a very good father. Mostly he just hides in his library and ignores his family.

2️⃣ Always Elizabeth. She taught teenage me to never let anyone bully you into something you know is not right for you. Secondly Mrs Gardiner for how she is there for her nieces. ⬇️

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Crinoline_Laphroaig 3️⃣ I started 2 Chapters a day but when I got to Pemberley, I sat down with a cup of tea and binge read to the end. All of Volume 3 is my favorite.

4️⃣ All classics. Whenever I read or watch an adaptation I always want to see how the opening line is used: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ⬇️

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Crinoline_Laphroaig To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go.” Whenever I read this, I know I'm to my favorite part.

And of course: “Obstinate, headstrong girl! As a teenager, I was inspired by this to think for myself.

5️⃣ I'd dance with Mr Collins, if it meant I going to Netherfield Ball. ⬇️
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Crinoline_Laphroaig 6️⃣ Lady Catherine. Once she's talking you could pretty much just eat your meal with occasional reply. Caroline is sly. You'd have to be ready at all times to respond to her snarky comments.

7️⃣ This was a great discussion question that was asked in group. I lean towards Willoughby being the worst because he left a young woman pregnant. Although I'm sure the Wickham would have done the same.⬇️
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Crinoline_Laphroaig 8️⃣ Tea with Elizabeth, Mrs Gardiner, and Georgiana at Pemberley. No Bingley sisters allowed.

9️⃣ I love Pride and Prejudice 'most ardently'. I'm always happy to reread it. 🎩

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AnneCecilie
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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The plan was to read two chapters a day, but then I came to the point where I know Lady Catherine de Bourgh will arrive and then there‘s my favourite scene, so I just had to read on

This Austen novel will always have a special place in my heart since it‘s the first one I read after watching the BBC series

I think this is the 1st time I‘ve been thinking that Charlotte didn‘t make so a bad choice after all. Because she could have married a Wickham

Bookwormjillk Anyone looks good compared to a Wickham! 3d
Crinoline_Laphroaig I love this book so much! 2d
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AnneCecilie
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#BookReport

It‘s towards the end of the month, so I finished the monthlong buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I put the Tiller book on pause for now

I‘ve started Intermezzo

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Andrea313
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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Whoops, I accidentally finished the rest of this in one fell swoop! Not surprising, since it's one of the best books ever written and I never stop delighting in it- witty and sparkling with depth and soul. Miss me with any accusations of "cringe" - this book is endlessly beautiful and I am so much better for loving it. #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

willaful “Cringe“? WTF?! 6d
Andrea313 @willaful Isn't any emotional profession utterly cringe these days? 😉 I'm mainly joking around, as I know I'm talking to kindreds on this one. 6d
bookishbitch I love these Chiltern books. They are so beautiful. 6d
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Andrea313 @bookishbitch I know, I can't get enough! 6d
eeclayton Understandable; I will miss your daily memes, though 🙂 5d
Andrea313 @eeclayton 😂 I'll pick them back up again with our May read- already looking forward to it! 5d
Crinoline_Laphroaig I love this book so much! Looking forward to May memes. 2d
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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#PemberLittens I've been a bit offline for March because my Mr Darcy turned 60! How did that happen? His Birthday Wishes: to putter about in his workshop (which we've named The Putterage), weekend trip to Texas Pinball Festival, and Hummingbird Cake. He has a couple more days of Staycation. Currently he is happily changing the oil in lawn mower. He works a stressful job, mowing is his therapy. 🥳
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Crinoline_Laphroaig And while he's never read Jane Austen(he's more a read technical manual sort of guy) he has watched all the Pride and Prejudice Adaptations with me. When I mentioned I planned on watching 1940s P & P movie he hrumphed and said it wasn't accurate. 😄 1w
willaful Happy birthday to your handsome hero! 1w
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willaful @Crinoline_Laphroaig and he's not wrong! 1w
AmyG Happy Birthday Mr Darcy!! 1w
dabbe HB, Mr. D! 🤩🤩🤩 1w
Graciouswarriorprincess Happy birthday Mr. Darcy! 1w
Leftcoastzen Happy Birthday Mr.Darcy 😁👏👏👏 1w
Leftcoastzen A pinball festival sounds awesome to me ! 1w
Ruthiella Happy birthday Mr. Darcy! 🥳 1w
eeclayton Happy birthday Mr Darcy! 🥳 1w
Reggie Happy Birthday to him and this is all awesome! 6d
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