I shall conquer this —I shall!! http://picasion.com/i/1TnS1
All it takes is a little smile from Darcy. http://picasion.com/i/1TnHK
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Be glad you are a woman today, and not when Jane Austen was.
5 lessons from the Great Jane Austen
This is like watching a teen-generated readers’ guide for one of my most favorite books, The Journeys of John and Julia: Genesis. These girls are so wise.
Stop in the Name of Love for the latest Gay of Thrones episode recap!
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What happens in your local swimming pool after hours.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived. Too often, alas! it is so. Fraternal love, sometimes almost everything, is at others worse than nothing.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, genius and truth-teller
In the latest episode, Kailey and Carly talk about divorce, running away from home, and The Journeys of John and Julia: Genesis (one of my most favorite books!).
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“I never was so long in company with a girl in my life, trying to entertain her, and succeed so ill! Never met with a girl who looked so grave on me! I must try to get the better of this. Her looks say, ‘I will not like you, I am determined not to like you’; and I say she shall.”
“Foolish fellow! And so this is her attraction after all! This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces!”
(Ah, yes. We always want what we can’t have.) The above is from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Jane Austen Addict Blogger Shout-Out
All about my Austen Addict books and blog. Courtesy of The Daily Basics.
Why you should adopt a kitty friend for your dog.
Seven Myths About Novelists...and a BIG Giveaway
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