katethegreatreader
Romantasty lover trying to ✨expand✨my reading taste and try new things!
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katethegreatreader commented on a post
“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.”
I know exactly the type, and I’ve always admired them. What skill it must take, for someone you’ve been married to for so long, to still not know your next move! How equally exhausting and exciting of a partner.
I know immediately I’ll love this book!
2katethegreatreader commented on a post
“…not handsome enough to tempt me.”
I could never let that go!
We could be married many years later and I’d say something like “What good fortune, that by some miracle I finally became handsome enough to tempt you!” or some such early-English sounding phrase.
It’s not easy to be a hopeless romantic and petty, but such is my cross to bear.
8Post from the Pride and Prejudice forum
“…not handsome enough to tempt me.”
I could never let that go!
We could be married many years later and I’d say something like “What good fortune, that by some miracle I finally became handsome enough to tempt you!” or some such early-English sounding phrase.
It’s not easy to be a hopeless romantic and petty, but such is my cross to bear.
8Post from the Pride and Prejudice forum
“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.”
I know exactly the type, and I’ve always admired them. What skill it must take, for someone you’ve been married to for so long, to still not know your next move! How equally exhausting and exciting of a partner.
I know immediately I’ll love this book!
2katethegreatreader finished reading and wrote a review...
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I don’t typically read books in this genre, and so was not expecting much. Like many other readers, I took some time to become invested, and it wasn’t a typical page-turner for me in that I could put it down if I wanted. That, however, is where my criticism ends.
I liked the letter format, as it made me feel like I was receiving news in real time and was the intended recipient myself. There’s a distance—that reading from a letter naturally creates, I think—from the action and the banter, as you’re never in the room when it happens. The letters were written and compiled so well though, that most of the time you could almost forget it was a letter.
I would say I liked the whit and charm of the book most of all. Yes, there was history and heaviness of war, but I think that made the charm more precious. This was a book which was created with a love of books at heart, and you could feel it all the way throughout. I was encouraged and teary-eyed when I read the Afterword from co-author Annie and discovered that really is Mary Ann Shaffer: whit, charm, and a thorough love of books at heart.
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