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Edmund and Fanny hang out to judge Mary Crawford but ultimately he's like, "but she's super feminine so it's fine" and goes to listen to her play the harp every single day. Then she starts riding Fanny's horse every day, too, and our girl is stuck at home to cut roses and run needless errands. Edmund feels bad and invites her on the Sotherton visit where Fanny and Mary gleefully catch sight of Edmund at the same time, giving real Pam/Karen vibes.

Rushworth is just another in a long line of tacky blowhards with no taste destroying much-loved places of natural beauty. "Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited." #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Man, this book is full of selfish, thoughtless people: sisters Bertram and Norris set Fanny off on an emotional roller coaster about her living situation without giving two shits; nobody cares that she doesn't have a horse, ie access to fresh air and exercise; Sir Thomas heads off for a year to his slave plantation; and Henry Crawford comes out the gate as a feckless, self-centered ass who won't house his own sister. Shades of behavior to come...

Am I ignoring my towering, teetering stack(s) of books at home to read this book that just came in to the library? Why, yes. Yes, I am, thank you for asking.

#Pemberlittens I'm already behind on 2 Chapters a Day Readalong of Mansfield Park. Today is my grocery shopping day for 3 day holiday weekend house party. I'm firing up my audiobook read by the fabulous Juliet Stevenson and listening through Chapter 12. That will take me up to Sunday. Monday when things quiet down I go back to print.🛒 🎧 📖

#musingsonmansfield
#janeaustenthenandnow

"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park,......." #Pemberlittens I'm here! 2 birthday celebrations in 3 days and now getting ready for holiday weekend house party has me a bit discombobulated. I used this Readalong as excuse to buy to copies off Ebay.

#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#MusingsOnMansfield

And we're off! We open with a portrait of three sisters- one very well-married, one relatively well-married, and one, well...whomp, whomp. Poor Mrs. Price has too many children and not enough income so the eldest girl is pawned off onto wealthy relations. Can I just say, if you're going to rip a child from her home, could you maybe greet her with ANY kind of affection and not just offer a snack?! I don't blame Fanny for breaking down in tears!

June @booklyapp reading report. I felt that I was in a reading slump but apparently not.

I completed the Kindle Spring Reading Challenge. The Kindle Summer Reading Challenge starts today.

I need to get my hands on this!! I know, it shouldn‘t be too hard to find, right? Just may purchase it just for fun, and then donate to my library after…
And please note that in August, @AvidReader25 and I are planning a #buddyREAD of this because it is one I haven‘t read yet, and I think M is reading through ALL the Austens; she can correct me if that‘s wrong. Anyone reading this is fine to join in.