Tuesday Tea is a weekly meme to share what you’re reading and what tea you are pairing it with. The Book The Tea The Assessment Pride and Prejudice is an English novel and the tea is English, so yes I think they compliment each other nicely. Also, tea is served quite freely to Mrs. Bennet […]
Towards the end of 2018 I “discovered” romances. I know I didn’t technically discover them, they had been sitting on the shelf all along. However, I had previously grouped them into the “Outlander Category” (clearly not a fan} and I left them there to gather dust. I cannot recall what novel it was that opened […]
First Impressions Lady Susan was a Jane Austen novel I had not yet read. With the recent release of the film Love & Friendship, thought this would be as good a time as any. Impressions While Reading Lady Susan, one of Austen’s novellas, was as witty as ever but it did take me a while […]
I found Northanger Abbey to be a much tamer read compared to Pride and Prejudice; however, it was still well written. I have to admit that I found this novel a little slow going at times and it took me a while for Cathrine and the Tilneys to get to Northanger Abbey but once there […]
Emma Woodhouse is a bona fide matchmaker, playing cupid for all her acquaintances while she claims to never marry herself. Famous last words… Emma’s current assignment is her dear friend Harriet Smith and after a proposal that Miss Woodhouse seems far too beneath her puts in all her efforts to find a suitable husband for […]
I won’t bore you with how wonderful I think Pride and Prejudice is, or my fictional crush on Mr. Darcy, or that I want Elizabeth Bennet as my BBF. You can read about that here Instead, I am going to discuss the Annotated part of the novel. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about […]
Pride and Prejudice I feel is the ultimate love story. Our heroine, Elizabeth Bennet is pretty, witty and wise with a great sense of time and humor. Mr. Darcy is rude, proud and very disagreeable, even if he is worth ten thousand a year. Both cannot stand each other. So what makes this the ultimate […]
Sense and Sensibility is a novel of the Dashwoods. Mrs. Dashwood, a silly women focused on acquiring a comfortable fortune and abode along with marrying off her daughters well. Elinor, a very sensible girl who always does the logical or right thing. Marianne who unlike her sister follows her heart and lives in the moment. […]