This reminds me of Barbara Pym novel but with sex. Nothing much happens. Just a view into people's everyday lives. Has one my pet peeves - overly long chapters. I hate to stop in the middle of a chapter. I found myself losing interest because it rambled on. If chapters had been shorter, could have read a few pages here and there and it would have been more enjoyable. ⬇️

My #great2024parasolversereread has moved on to Timeless. I absolutely adore Biffy aka Wingtip Spectator this one. ☂️

Timeline Readalong came to end today. Having just finished The Shell Seekers. I particularly liked the mentions of Penelope Keating. Although her sone Neil has some character growth. I feel he's still self centered.

I particularly liked setting, party, Archie and Isabelle. Violet was my favorite. Spunky older ladies are my favorite thing about Rosamunde Pilcher. 👵

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Morning cuppa and a chapter. Timeline Readalong of Rosamunde Pilcher's September starts today and continues through September 17th. 🫖🍂🍁

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#Pemberlittens we're off to high seas for this month's #JaneAdjacent. Grab a copy of in your favorite format. Read at your own pace. Dictionary Post will be up September 30th. 🎩🌊🏴‍☠️ #12MonthsOfJane

#MonthlyMagazineBlitz is a success! I'm down to my stack of Gardening catalogs and The English Garden magazines that I'm keeping for Reference and Inspiration.

But keep me on the tag list @julieclair because I want to keep going. Up next is that stack of recipes I kept from the magazines I discarded. Need to sort and put in my Seasonal Recipe Notebooks.

It's time for #JaneAdjacent Book Club.
1️⃣ New read. Audio and Print. I read Ghosted - A Northanger Abbey Novel with #PemberLittens last year. So when I saw the author had written a book about Georgie Darcy, I immediately wanted to read. LOVE the cover.
2️⃣ Always Lizzy Bennet.
3️⃣ Georgie and Lizzy conversations. ⬇️

#Pemberlittens It's almost time for #JaneAdjacent Book Club! This month we're discussing Accomplished by Amanda Quain. I've discussion questions ready to go. I'll post them later today. Bit earlier than normal but tomorrow starts busy holiday weekend. 🎩 📖📚

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On this day in 1816, Jane Austen finished writing Persuasion. How fitting that I finished reading for Thursday's Jane Austen's House Virtual Book Club. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." ? #Pemberlittens

#JaneAjacent and #AustenInAugust ⁉️ Yes please! This month we're heading back to school with YA story featuring Georgiana from Pride and Prejudice. Absolutely adore the cover!

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It's time for Austen in August! And while yes I do tend to celebrate Jane Austen all year long, it is tradition to read as much as possible in August.

Up first is Persuasion for next week's Jane Austen House Museum Book Club. My collection isn't as big as my Pride and Prejudice one, but some lovely editions none the less. 🎩📖📚

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Absolute delight as always rereading Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time. I'm particularly happy that because I did Chapter A Day with a Facebook friend as well as #PemberLittens, I will have something Pride and Prejudice every day from June 1st to July 31st in my Facebook memories. 🎩

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"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them." - The End ?

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"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." - Mr. Darcy ?
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"Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."

Here's a lovely pic Himself took of Chatsworth House. It was Pemberley in 2005's Pride and Prejudice movie

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It's almost time for Jane Austen Book Club! I struggled with this month's read - Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding. I'll spill the tea on why in tomorrow's Discussion Post. 🫖📖📚

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"But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you." - Chapter 58

Darcy being Darcy. ?

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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" Chapter 57.

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!" - Chapter 56

#FlashbackFriday of one of my many t-shirts with this quote. There is no greater compliment you can give a Janeite. Elizabeth standing up for herself inspired me as a teenager to have the courage to stand up for myself. I so love this chapter. ?????

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"No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time." Chapter 55

At this point in the story I'm tempted to finish but I'm making myself stick to Chapter A Day Readalong. ?

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“Teasing, teasing, man! I will think no more about him." Chapter 54 ?

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"Yet it is hard," she sometimes thought, "that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself." - Chapter 53

Mr. Bingley is back and he's brought a friend. Lots going on today, so I made time this morning to sit with my cup of tea and chapter.? ??
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"Elizabeth had the satisfaction of receiving an answer to her letter as soon as she possibly could. She was no sooner in possession of it than, hurrying into the little copse, where she was least likely to be interrupted, she sat down on one of the benches and prepared to be happy; for the length of the letter convinced her that it did not contain a denial." - Chapter 52

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I thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands." Chapter 51

Time for tea and a chapter. ???

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"He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us." Chapter 50

Letters continue as Mr. Gardiner sorts out all the details.

Also look at this beautiful bouquet I bought this morning at the Farmers' Market. That sunflower! Yellow makes me happy. Plus I love the contrast of purple zinnia.?????

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"There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming to town again; therefore stay quiet at Longbourn, and depend on my diligence and care." - Chapter 49

Mr. Gardiner oh so tactfully telling Mr. Bennet to just stay home. When what he really means is 'You're no help. I've got this.' ?

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"Howsoever that may be, you are grievously to be pitied; in which opinion I am not only joined by Mrs. Collins, but likewise by Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair." Chapter 48

Condolences from Mr. Collins. Ugh. ✉️

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"Oh! thoughtless, thoughtless Lydia!" cried Elizabeth when she had finished it. "What a letter is this, to be written at such a moment! - Chapter 47

This section of P & P has lots of letters. After all that's how people communicated. This one is particularly fun. It's made to look like Lydia wrote her note that she left for Mrs Foster on the back of fashion sheet. Which is totally something Lydia would do. ✉️

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"They had just been preparing to walk as the letters came in; and her uncle and aunt, leaving her to enjoy them in quiet, set off by themselves." - Chapter 46

#Pemberlittens not one but two letters and it's not good news. Because of the letters I'm back to this Edition. ?

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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance." Chapter 45

#Pemberlittens here's the handsomest rose currently blooming - David Austin Roses Elizabeth. Sadly she is not named for Elizabeth Bennet but for the late Queen. ?

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"As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not long enough to determine her feelings towards one in that mansion; and she lay awake two whole hours endeavouring to make them out." - Chapter 44

#Pemberlittens this part of the story has me reminiscing about our visit to Lyme Park. I love this photo Husband took of the sunken Italian Garden. ?

"They gradually ascended for half-a-mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. " Chapter 43

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To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go." Chapter 42

I always love when I reach this line. In the original publication of 3 Volumes, this was the end of Volume 2. My favorite part of the story is coming. #PemberLittens we're going to Pemberley! ?

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"The elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments." - Chapter 41

I love how friends give me random Jane Austen things. Like this fun Pride and Prejudish sponge. ☺️

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"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it." Chapter 40
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I blame Walmart. Pushing my cart through store, there this beauty was, right on the endcap. #PemberLittens Walmart isn't the place where I shop for books usually. Occasionally I might pick up a copy of a Bestseller I've been meaning to read. ?

#Pemberlittens "And we mean to treat you all," added Lydia, "but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there." Chapter 39

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“Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such society! But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.”

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“When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great condescension, wished them a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year; and Miss de Bourgh exerted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.” Chapter 37

#Pemberlittens on this day in1809 Jane Austen moved to Chawton to this house. Here, she wrote, revised, and published all six of her novels. 📖

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“Colonel Fitzwilliam was no longer an object; she could think only of her letter.” Chapter 36

With all this discussion of letters, I thought I'd share my Jane Austen stamps. #PemberLittens if you'd like to know more about them here's a link: https://www.janeaustenbooks.net/products/m10121-royal-mail-jane-austen-stamps

Mine where a gift from my dear friend Claire. 💌

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"Will you do me the honour of reading that letter?" Chapter 35

One of the extras included in Marjolein Bastin edition of Pride and Prejudice is Mr. Darcy's letter to Elizabeth.

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"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Chapter 34

Why yes # PemberLittens I do have today's quote on a tshirt. ?????

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"I have been making the tour of the park," he replied, "as I generally do every year, and intend to close it with a call at the Parsonage." Chapter 33

In which Colonel Fitzwilliam spills the tea. So let me spill some as well. ?

"My dear, Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never have called us in this familiar way." - Chapter 32

#Pemberlittens another from my collection. You could read this very simplified childrens edition in about 5 minute. I actually read my Kindle copy today. ?

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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me." Chapter 31

#Pemberlittens I'm not actually reading Pride and Prejudice Manga for my Chapter A Day Readalong. I think it needs to be read on its own. But it's just so pretty it needed to be shared. ?

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'In this quiet way, the first fortnight of her visit soon passed away." Chapter 30

#Pemberlittens after a big gardening project and two Birthday celebrations, it was lovely to spend Sunday puttering in my Library and organizing my collection.? ??

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1️⃣ New read. Print, Kindle, and Audiobook. When I picked this I was looking for an Austen retelling for Pride. I didn't realize it was Time Travel. Love that!👇

Teacups to the ready! It's almost time for Jane Austen Book Club. I'm gathering my thoughts and getting questions together. Discussion Post will be up later today.
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"Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with...." Chapter 29

Pride and Prejudice Readalong has now featured all the copies in my Collection. I do also have children's editions and Manga but those need read through on their own. ?

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I made a Reel for my Collection. Link to Instagram and our not often used #PemberLittens Facebook Group in comments.

A friend recommended this @julieclair and my hold came in today. It's my July #SeasonalCozies read. 🐾