After Elizabeth Bennet turns down Mr. Darcy’s disastrous proposal at Rosings, she’s convinced she’ll never see him again. And for awhile, that seems to be true. After Lizzy’s father dies unexpectedly, Lizzy finds work as a governess to a young girl in London. She is settling into her new life when she’s given quite the [...]
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Word of the Week (116)
Everyone knows that June 6th is the anniversary of D-Day. But on June 5th, in preparation for the Normandy landings, the British Air Force had its bombers drop approximately 5,000 tons of bombs on German troops stationed on the coast. Now, I’m not an explosions expert and from what I know of D-Day, those bombs [...]
Reading Confessions: Audio Books
It’s time for some true confessions, bookworms. No lies, no embellishments, just the hard, cold truth about reading, books and all sorts of other things. We start this time with a confession of my own: I don’t like audio books. I don’t hate audio books. I have nothing against them in general. Some of the [...]
