Welcome to Litsy!

Rehearsals are in full swing and stirring up jealousies like nobody's business! Henry is all over Maria, pissing off both Julia and Mr. Rushworth, and Edmund is falling for Mary more each day, which has Fanny straight-up vexed. She's also in her feelings about Mrs. Grant who took on Cottager's Wife is now loved by everyone while Fanny is increasingly ignored and isolated. But soon none of this will matter because uh-oh...Sir Thomas has returned!

Edmund remains totally disapproving of the whole home am-dram concept, but when Tom suggests bringing in some rando to join the fun, he's absolutely aghast. The impropriety! Tom also tries to get Fanny to join in, but our girl's morals are iron-clad and she refuses. The same cannot be said for Edmund who decides that joining in himself would be the lesser of two evils and in a total weaksauce move, he tries to get Fanny to absolve him. Boy, bye.

"A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down"

As a gardener I love a good ha-ha mention. In June I hosted a Garden Club tour of my garden. My topic was In The Garden with Jane Austen and how it inspired me. Oh course I dressed the part. ?

Oh my godddd, here we go! Suddenly the gang turns into the most cringe theatre kids ever. As a lifelong member of that circle, I can confirm that the level of drama we see here lives on in every high school theatre club, community theatre troupe, and, yes, some professional companies. We even still have stodgy killjoys like Edmund trying to kill the vibe, largely in the form of vile conservatives defunding the NEA (oops, did I say it out loud?).

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My local all music station WRCJ 90.9 will be showcasing score music from Jane Austen film and tv adaptations on their program The Soundtrack hosted by Haley Taylor!!!

This Sunday July 13, 2025 at 6pm

You can listen/stream the radio station online at https://www.wrcjfm.org/

Mary Crawford showing her true colors in today's chapters: she likes Edmund a lot but his job isn't nearly grand or important enough for her and she tries to persuade him out of taking orders, even though he thinks the role of the clergyman is an important one. They're at an impasse and she flies off to play harp, and then in a maddening display of weakness and male blindness, he proceeds to...sing her praises?! Edmund, she may be pretty, but no.

Everyone continues to be terrible! The gang visits Sotherton and:

-Julia sits with Henry and Maria is a pouty asshole about it
-Mary Crawford shoves her foot directly in her mouth by being pointedly bitchy about the clergy
-Henry flirts with (engaged) Maria all day like the manwhore he is
-Fanny's left on her own again and doesn't even get to see the avenue she came for?!

On the bright side (?), I learned about the window-tax (link in comments).

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Wonderland Yarns created an Always Austen quarterly shawl subscription box with knit or crochet patterns! And they included some bookish items as well.

Second quarter is in tribute to Pride and Prejudice! 🥰

https://frabjousfibers.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopIqxo6nvJaxenSbgiEiHqx-VO9o6kUeuTGPE0I...

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My 20th Anniversary Pride and Prejudice phonograph came in! It‘s neat to listen to the score in this new way; same great quality!

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I read Beach Read and Sjøkuer og andre utryddelser

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens. Last week was also the beginning of a new month, so I started two new buddy reads; Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve also started Hunchback