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Love John Mullan’s thumbnail sketches of Austen’s novels here. I personally do not find it “foolish” that Marianne Dashwood talks to trees, but otherwise we are in entire agreement! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Just another American cheering on Canada after its big win last night. Feel certain that last year I wouldn’t have noticed as I’m not a sports fan. So much has changed.

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Who doesn’t need more emotional resilience, more ability to “withstand exhaustion,” these days? Perhaps like Simone de Beauvoir I can find some in walking. It’s worth a try. lithub.com/how-walking-...

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DC on President’s Day, 2025.

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“…she makes you feel that you are there in the Jane corner and she’s quietly digging you in the ribs, or whispering some smart, superior snark to you.” Love this take on #JaneAusten by Frank Cottrell Boyce. The Jane corner: where I need to be just now! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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I’ve found it hard to be happy lately, despite all of the wisdom #JaneAusten has imparted to me on that topic over the years (e.g. “it is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible.”) This @pbs.org tribute to her influence did at least lift my spirits! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Proud of @apnews.com! Please hold firm to your rational stance! Do not capitulate to the coercion of this radical, extremist far right.

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“…she would have despised the idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! She knew they were superior.” Rereading Cranford ahead of teaching it next week and it’s just what the doctor ordered.

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“We gathered, in the program, to read together; we read together as an occasion for gathering.” Really loved this narrative (by William Deresiewicz) of the program underway via the Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life.” www.the-hinternet.com/p/here-come-...

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“The imagination is the primary and first site of resistance.” So many insights in this terrific essay. “. . . so the books, in turn, became wild and immense offerings.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4....

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#JaneAusten is “especially popular in periods of economic difficulty.” Austen “props our economy up so literally that she’s on our £10 notes.” www.tatler.com/article/aust...

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NYTimes spelling bee tells me “unquitting” is not a word, but I say it should be in honor of all of our federal workers.

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US painter Amy Sherald, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it,” 2019 #WomensArt

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Austen mania, again, still! On “the new generation of women who are waving their fans for the author.” www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertain...

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Fascinating essay on alternative and intuitive metrics of conservation. (Hoping “conservation” withstands the current administration’s slash and burn of scholarship they construe as on the wrong side ofntheir ideologies) aeon.co/essays/the-c...

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Less historic acts, more “unhistoric acts,” more “growing good of the world” urgently needed just now. (So agree on Middlemarch as greatest novel)

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Contemporary UK artist Natasha Newton's painted stones are inspired by landscape and nature #WomensArt

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Jane Austen the “presiding spirit” but Cassandra Austen shown to share her family’s fondness for “the oblique put down.” Sold! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Two Sense and Sensibility” options but not Ang Lee’s version on this list? I am most seriously displeased. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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I will arise and go now. If not to Innisfree, then to a quiet space like this. I need to reset. January has taken a toll. “Woman Reading by Candlelight.” Peter Vilhelm, 1908.

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“That element of mysterious quiet dignity is crucial to the success of the Jane Austen brand.” www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

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0n the enduring interest of Jane Austen: “…it indicates a hunger for the kind of nourishment that can restore our sick and lonely society to health.” firstthings.com/jane-austen-...

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“What do any of our stories mean? Every time you tell them, they are different.” Just finished this beautiful novel by Janice Pariat. Highly recommend!

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“I need solitude. I need space. I need air.” It took me a lot of years to learn to understand, and love, Virginia Woolf, but now I do. Happy birthday (tomorrow!) Virginia Woolf.

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Praying to all the gods and goddesses it stays down.

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All I know is that three tiny women of an age that generally renders them invisible in American culture are three of the only people who have shown any degree of courage or a moral compass this week. Bishop Budde - 65 Senior Judge Howell - 68 Pam Hemphill (refused DJT pardon bc "I'm guilty") - 71

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And lo, the prices of the eggs went down, and lo, it was as if they were in a dream, and the glory of the eggs shone round about them: and they rejoiced, for the eggs were so cheap

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Baby crab has learned what is happening up here, tomorrow, and has asked to be returned home 1060 meters down pronto.

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Hopefully January 20th is an especially good day for stargazing. I will want to be looking … elsewhere.

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