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capricorn-0mnikorn · 2 years

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📖Persuasion📖 by Jane Austen: Listen- & Read-Along, Chapters Five & Six

Discussion of Chapters Three and Four starts here

Audio of Karen Savage’s LibriVox Reading on YouTube, starting at Chapter Five (Chapters Five and Six together, ~38 minute listen at normal speed)

Moira Fogarty’s reading at LibriVox (Chapters Five and Six together, ~42 minute listen)

Text of Chapter Five and Chapter Six at Project Gutenberg

Synopses:

Chapter Five: The final arrangements for Admiral and Mrs. Croft to move in to Kellynch Hall are made, with a move-in date of Michaelmas (29 September), with Sir Walter and Elizabeth moving down to Bath in the month before. Lady Russell and Anne both expect Anne to go down to Bath with them, but Elizabeth declares that Anne is not wanted by anyone in Bath, and invites Mrs. Clay to come with her to assist in picking out a house to live in (thwarting Mrs. Russell’s attempts to separate Mrs. Clay from Sir Walter). Meanwhile, Anne’s sister Mary insists that she needs Anne to come take care of her, because she expects to be ill all autumn. Anne would rather be wanted for the wrong reasons than not wanted at all, and readily agrees. Both Lady Russell and Anne suspect that Mrs. Clay is trying to convince Sir Walter to marry her, and thus, make any possible son she has with him the next heir to the baronetcy. Anne tries to warn Elizabeth about this, but (as usual) is not listened to. Anne moves in to Uppercross Cottage with Mary and Charles Musgrove, and settles into life in the community anchored by Charles’ parents (the landed gentry of their village). We meet Charles’s sisters, Henrietta and Louisa (19 and 20 years old, fresh home from finishing school at Exeter with all the modern accomplishments, ready to have a grand time being fashionable and merry)

Chapter Six: We see more of Anne at Uppercross in detail, and how she is the diplomatic go-between to all the people there (the Musgroves complaining about Mary, and Mary complaining about the Musgroves). There’s also a stark contrast with the culture at Kellynch Hall, with Uppercross Hall being the social hub of the village, and there being frequent, impromptu balls after dinner, just because. Anne’s mood starts to improve. Then, Admiral and Mrs. Croft move in to Kellynch Hall, and pay a social call, charming everybody (Mary’s boys, especially, love the Admiral). Anne is relieved to realize that the Crofts have no idea about her previous, brief, engagement to Mrs. Croft’s brother Captain Frederick Wentworth. But, at the last minute, Mrs. Musgrove remembers that her late son, Richard, who died at sea, served briefly under Captain Wentworth, and they can’t bring themselves to meet the Crofts. Still, the Admiral tells them, casually, that his wife’s brother Frederick will be coming to stay with them at Kellynch Hall and will be there in a few days.

Favorite quotes:

Chapter Five:

On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs Croft's seeing Kellynch Hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell's, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them.

Uh-Huh. “Most natural”

This is the kind of thing where Austen’s use of ‘Free Indirect Discourse’* (where the inner thoughts of a character are seamlessly inserted into the third-person narration) shines so brightly. Austen (the narrator) knows full well (and the reader can tell) that Anne was planning on walking to Lady Russell’s, in order to avoid meeting the Crofts. But the repetition of “most natural” is clearly Anne’s quoted thoughts, convincing herself that she’s not being at all rude.

It’s a gentle poking at Anne’s faults on Austen’s part, even though Austen is fully on Anne’s side, and it adds to the satirically humorous tone of the novel, even without being laugh-out-loud funny.

Chapter Six:

The party at the Great House was sometimes increased by other company. The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by everybody, and had more dinner-parties, and more callers, more visitors by invitation and by chance, than any other family. They were more completely popular.

The girls were wild for dancing; and the evenings ended, occasionally, in an unpremeditated little ball. There was a family of cousins within a walk of Uppercross, in less affluent circumstances, who depended on the Musgroves for all their pleasures: they would come at any time, and help play at anything, or dance anywhere; and Anne, very much preferring the office of musician to a more active post, played country dances to them by the hour together; a kindness which always recommended her musical powers to the notice of Mr and Mrs Musgrove more than anything else, and often drew this compliment;--"Well done, Miss Anne! very well done indeed! Lord bless me! how those little fingers of yours fly about!"

Compare and Contrast with how Elizabeth being hostess of the annual Spring Balls at Kellynch Hall was described, in Chapter One. No wonder Anne’s depression is starting to crack.

*which I’ve seen (in several places) Jane Austen credited with inventing, and Persuasion is most often cited as Austen’s most polished use of this technique. It’s one of the reasons why I’m starting to think of Austen as one of the most influential writers when it comes to what we think a novel is supposed to be, even if slice-of-life domestic drama is not your favorite genre. Even in the most swash-buckling, outlandish, melodramatic, fantasies, we’ve come to expect to see how outward events effect the private, internal, thoughts and emotions of the characters.

#📖Persuasion📖 Read-Along #Chapters Five and Six #narrative technique #modern fiction #Jane Austen's influence

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raspberryzingaaa · 2 years

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Just now realizing why I haaate the casting for RWRB, cause neither of them sound like Ramon de Ocampo! Who does the FABULOUS audiobook! Cause every time i hear the actors talk im like 🧐 that is not your voice who are you.

Same as with Narnia! Cause all my love to Liam Neeson, but he will Never be David Suchet.

And if they ever make a Raven Cycle video adaptation I will be like 🧐 why don't you sound like Will Patton??? (Except gweillian[that's not how you spell it I know whatever] because... listen a man's gotta have A flaw I suppose!)

Or any Anne of Green Gables! You aren't Karen Savage! How dare! Imposter!

Or Steve West's BRILLIANT work on the Queens Thief series

Anyways I love audiobooks and audiobook narrators. All my love to those awesome people

#nia post #but seriously about rwrb #its not the saaaaaaame

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kaypeace21 · 3 years

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Rebel Robin podcast (ep 3 &4 analysis)

For those who haven’t read them yet. Here’s the analysis for podcast ep 1&2. Analysis of Rebel Robin book-here. And eastereggs from rebel robin novel- here.

So the main things I noticed in ep 3 was how Robin spying was shown as a huge NEGATIVE-and Mr Hauser got upset over her doing so. Robin listens to mr. Hauser’s phone call (like Karen with Mike in s3/ us gov spying on calls in s1) & on a different occasion Robin also eavesdrops on a private convo he is having with someone else in his classroom ( like El spying on Mike talking to Lucas in s3). And when he finds out about this he tells her how wrong it was to spy on other people like that. In the past, I also talked about how the theme of spying is shown for many other st characters ( in the show) and how it isn’t romanticized like people think it is- here .

Anyways , Ep 3 ends with a call from a h*mophobic teen( Dash) telling Robin to “stay away” from Mr. Hauser cause he’s “dangerous”. Why he thinks he’s dangerous is solely for the fact he’s gay.I think this theme may come into play in s4 Hawkins (in relation to the satanic panic). In ep 4 Robin jokes to (gay) Mr. Hauser : “ So what are you into... satanism?” (Sadly most queer people have been told over and over we’re going to hell for being gay/lgbt+. it’s sadly an almost universal experience.) For those unaware- the ‘satanic panic’ was a right wing christian movement in the 80′s that WRONGLY associated certain things with supposed satanism. Just some of the many things they demonized : rock music , stephen king , wearing black, horror/fantasy media, and of course queer people and d&d (hellfire club - the name is a a xmen ref but in the show it’s probably an inside joke about the satanic panic and people being scared of d&d). We see foreshadowing of the satanic panic hinted in s3 (in relation to d&d)- on tv the narrator asks if “satanism” (pans to d&d set) is to blame for the odd occurrances in Hawkins. And given how the s4 el-trailer had the clock say 3:00am for the “witching hour” also called “the devil’s hour” since it’s supposed to be a subversion of jesus dy*ing at 3:00 pm. And the possibility s4 may take place around Easter. I think we’ll see that religious (Christian) extre*sm causes many people in Hawkins to interpret the supernatural as ‘satanic’. And no , I’m obviously not talking poorly about all religious/christian people).

After this Mr. Hauser jokes how Hawkins is like “lord of the flies” and how he “worries” what would happen if teens were left to their own devices-like in the book. The themes in the book mostly focus on the dangers of ‘mob mentality’ and how human beings can become v*olent and turn on each other- if the safety of civilization disappears...

This I believe is foreshadowing - i mentioned in a post a while back (here). How movies on the s4 list had the theme of : a supernatural event indirectly causing towns people to act irrationally and turn on eachother v*olently. Despite literal monsters attacking them from outside (they chose to turn on eachother instead). In the end some townspeople become the real monsters via mob mentality/v*oence/false witch hunts (the mist, the birds, etc). In ‘the birds’ (while people are hidding in a store)- they wrongly blame certain characters for the supernatural chaos. Similarly, in ‘the mist’ (crowd of townspeople are trapped in a store) and some start interpreting the monsters as being sent as punishment by god- some town’s people start quoting the bible and saying the only way to stop the punishment is to start “sacrificing the s*nners and nonbelievers”. BIG YIKES.ST references mapple street (where the wheelers and sinclairs live). It’s based on the twilight zone ep of the same name “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” .The ‘monsters’ of that episode -were the townspeople turning on eachother because they incorrectly think their own neighbors are part of an invading supernatural army. The enemy was actually the paranoia/mob mentality-not the supernatural force they feared. And yes i do think this concept is linked with 80s satanic panic and will cause some town division/obstacles for our heroes to deal with . **I also think the s4 bts of the Hawkins blood clinic-may be used to show h*mophobia (linked to satanic panic) in the town. Like in one s4 movie “paradise lost”the punk rock boys who were into black clothes, rock music , horror/stephen king books- were accused by the town’s people of being gay AND have demonic powers that are k*lling fellow town’s people.

Mr Hauser says he thinks steve Harrington is Ralph from lord of the flies. And Robin disagrees saying he’s Jack. Personally- since this was when Robin didn’t know/hated Steve. I think Mr hauser is right that Steve is Ralph (one of the oldest boys) who’s “commitment to civilization and morality is strong”. But Jack (perhaps the popular s4 kid Jake?) and his savage crew take control of the group and start trying to attack Ralph and his friends (steve’s crew- over satanic panic?). How this begins is -

Jack, torments Ralph and others. And some kids begin to develop savage personalities, after someone claims to have seen a Beast (demongorgan?) in the woods. This creates fear among the boys, which allows Jack to access more power.Ralph gets into an argument with Jack, who splits from the tribe. Many of the other boys follow Jack, who uses fear to manipulate the boys into leaving Ralph. And Jack’s crew begin attacking Ralph and his friends.

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Ok, next topic of ep 4- the sentimental part of my brain got emotional when hearing how upset Robin was. And than Mr Hauser-telling her she’s wrong and she’s not “broken” or “rotten” and “nothing about her needs to be fixed’” (got me right in the feels) . As a queer person- I feel like every lgbt+ kid/teen needs to hear what Mr. Hauser said to Robin.

However, the analytical part of my brain -did notice some easterggs/ series parallels.

The convo starts with them talking about music Mr hauser likes (such as Bowie). And transitions to Mr Haauser asking about things she likes, whether she’s being bullied, and he later tells her “ DON’T let other people’s small mindedness make you fell bad about yourself. you don’t need to change yourself-no matter what anyone else says” . And Mr Hauser than says him calling her the “weirdest girl in Hawkins” was a compliment (not an insult-like she initially assumed).

This is remarkably similar to certain scenes in s1/2. In s1, Jonathan mentions musicians he likes such as Bowie, asks Will about what he likes, and tells Will “don't like things cause people tell you you’re supposed to-especially not him (their dad who called him h*mophobic names)” . In s2, Jonathan tries to cheer Will up after asking if he's being being bullied. And calls Will “a freak” (and says it’s a good thing) and he should be content with being a “freak “ and compares Will to Bowie ( who was openly queer since the 70s) .

In ep 4, Robin also mentions how sad she is that her parents won’t let her ride her bike anymore cause their paranoid about her safety (like what happened to Will in s2).

Robin (before Mr. Hauser comforts her) says she feels like she has a “rot” inside her . This is a s2 eastergg that could be linked to either Will or El. Will says his now-memories are “growing”, spreading”, and killing.” Later Kali says the emotional pain caused by her father caused a “wound” to “spread”. Later allusion-Brenner tells El she has a “terrible wound “ (“a rot”) that Will “grow, spread, and kill.”

The reason Robin rants about feeling like she has a “rot” inside her is because she’s being bullied, and lost all her Hawkins friends and says “maybe I’m broken maybe there is just something about me that drives people away? I’m the only common denominator-there’s something wrong with me! There’s something inside of me that’s just rotten and there’s nothing i can do to fix it”. Which 1)-poor Robin. 2) I feel like could easily be How Will feels in s4(who will be the same age as Robin is here in the podcast)- his dad abandoned him, all his hawkins friends are gone , the st s4 movies have h*mophobic bullying in them (and he was bullied in the past). In a interview Noah said Will in s4 “doesn’t really get along with people-it’s just him and Mike.” I think it fits more so with Will than El . But they may feel similar: it’s implied in s4 audition tapes she’ll be bullied too, she moved away from her friends, and her father (Hopper) fake “passed away.” It could easily be how both Will and El feel in s4- that there is something “broken”/ “rotten” about them . In fact, in the rebel Robin novel there is even a character named Sheena. Sheena reminds me a bit of a mix between Will and el . She is very quiet, queercoded, and is often bullied. And she finds mean notes and other things stuffed in her locker- placed there by bullies. A bit like how Will found the zombie-boy note in his locker. A teacher doesn’t stop her bullying just blames her and says “ This wouldn’t happen if you made it just a smidgen easier for PEOPLE to understand you.”(sort of reminding me of that Noah quote about s4 Will not getting along with most people/Jonathan saying not to change himself cause “people” say to). But sheena can be another name for Jane (there was also a 80s show character named Sheena who was psychic) so ...maybe foreshadowing of el/jane being bullied in highschool? Along with Will?

*It’s not a eastergg/parallel...just speculation. Unlike the rebel robin book... in the podcast (in multiple episodes) almost every time she opens up to Mr Hauser about her problems she says it’s ok for him to do the same and she’ll be supportive and listen. However, Mr Hauser (so far) always rejects her offer-much to her hurt/frustration. In ep 4, she asks if he has someone his “own age” he can talk to about his problems-which he says he does. Now... since in ep 4 Mr hauser is paralleled to Jonathan maybe Jonathan will have someone his own age to talk to about his problems (maybe his new friend Argyle?) We see similar to Mr Hauser giving advice/pep talks to (gay) Robin. Jonathan is always giving advice/peptalks to our (gay-coded) Will. But so far- Jonathan has no one he really emotionally leaned on in the same way (Will does with Jonathan). I also wonder if Will in s4 starts gets tired of how he always confides in Jonathan (but Jonathan never does the same with Will in return)? Like Robin with Mr. Hauser?

#robin buckley #steve harrington #will byers #el hopper #jonathan byers #stranger things #stranger things theory

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bitter69uk · 4 years

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Recently watched: Good Morning … and Goodbye! (1967), a juicy, lurid and raunchy family melodrama concerned with the pain of adultery and the serious, genuine psychological condition of nymphomania, directed by visionary maestro of sexploitation and “the rural Fellini”, Russ Meyer. (Tagline: “For those who measure success only in the hours before the morning light!”). As the very chatty narrator (who comments on the action throughout) opines, “All of the characters are identifiable, perhaps even familiar. And perchance you may view the mirror of your own soul!” Cuckolded impotent Burt (Stuart Lancaster, the wheelchair-bound old man in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) is tormented by the rampant, wanton infidelities of his much-younger cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof trophy wife Angel (Alaina Capri). Meanwhile, his sexpot teenage daughter Lana (Karen Ciral) is itching to lose her virginity and casting around for a likely candidate …

As per usual with Meyer, expect an emphasis on eye-popping heaving décolletage, titillating glimpses of near-nudity, outrageously verbose “hepcat” dialogue, spontaneous bursts of frantic go-go dancing, skinny-dipping, fist fights, muscle cars (Angel speeds-around in the most magnificent low-slung matte gold Cadillac convertible) and male beefcake (for a resolutely hetero and breast-fixated filmmaker, Meyer’s camera was a surprisingly equal opportunity lech. The “well-developed” frequently shirtless male eye candy here - Patrick Wright and Don Johnson - could have stepped straight out of a 1960s homoerotic Athletic Model Guild physique pictorial). In addition, the fabulous Haji (the volcanic Latina go-go dancer Rosie from Faster, Pussycat!) inexplicably pops-up as a mystical forest-dwelling semi-nude … what would you call her? A sorceress? A sprite? A wood nymph? Anyway, she represents “passion and sex exploding a scent of musk and earth that surrounds her body like a mist. She is a honeycomb with no takers, a witch that can fly only one night a year!”

But Good Morning truly belongs to the sin-sational Alaina Capri as hot-pool-of-woman-need Angel, breathlessly described as "a lush cushion of evil perched on the throne of immorality … a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfilment". Snarling her acidic dialogue in the flattest, most sullen tones imaginable from beneath a mane of teased bouffant hair and resembling a debauched Barbara Parkins (Anne Welles from Valley of the Dolls), Capri is a trampy bitch goddess extraordinaire. In an ideal world she would be as celebrated as other Meyer leading ladies like Tura Satana or Erica Gavin. Good Morning … and Goodbye just may be Meyer’s most underrated work.

Let’s face it: the puritanical, hypocritical and homophobic hellsite Tumblr has become a dying platform since it banned adult content in December 2018. I post here less and less. Follow me instead on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or on my blog. Fuck Tumblr!

#alaina capri #haji #russ meyer #good morning and goodbye #sexploitation cinema #sexploitation #vintage sleaze #vintage smut #lobotomy room #lobotomy room club #atomic era

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schattenkino-der-postmotten · 3 years

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#posthumanism #viecher #imitation #donna haraway #karen barad #bruno latour #reader

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trisofthewild · 3 years

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Tris! I don't really have anything to ask about your fic, but I love your writing style. It has a real gravitas, in your Teba/Saki/Harth fic I just really love the stuff that remains unsaid and your whole...words! There's something very high fantasy about it? But maybe that's not quite right? Anyway, I love it, and this is me getting up in your ask box and saying: talk about how your style happened!

Hi Sun! Thank you very much. <3 This is an interesting question, and I'm afraid my boring answer is "I don't know, but I suspect it has a lot to do with reading and music." I was a voracious reader as a kid, and imprinted hard on the wry, clever omniscient third person narration you often see in children's classics (think Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl). As a pretentious teen, I was once told by another pretentious teen that I "write with a British accent." This accent was blunted quite a bit when I got to fandom and became acquainted with the more "transparent" sort of prose that is endemic to fic, but you can see it more in my earliest fic. In fact, to liven this up a little I'm going to pull a few mile markers in my fic-writing career.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question is the first fic I wrote over a thousand words, in 2004. The title is an e.e. cummings quote and the epigram--there is an epigram of three different quotes--includes another cummings quote. I am 20 years old and I've read poetry for fun! Then the prose is like this:

"Good." Lily nodded with slightly flared nostrils. "Good, good, that's what I want. Our mutual abhorrence of — ARG WOULD YOU PLEASE LEAVE." She dug her fingernails into the sheets, forming bunches of savagely clawed linen in ripples 'round her knuckles, which were so white that they actually matched the plain Egyptian cotton. James, clearly set on paying his wife's request no heed whatsoever, settled anxiously in the chair at the bedside, only to be smacked roundly over the head by the (rather hypocritical, James felt) mediwitch, who'd snuck up on him from behind brandishing a rolled-up copy of yesterday's Daily Prophet.

You can see hints of that omniscient third. You can also see, perhaps, that since my children's fantasy days I've gotten into post-war existentialism. I am 20 and my favorite books are Catch-22 and Cat's Cradle! Thus, structural fuckery: the fic is split into two alternating timelines and Harry's is in present tense and the omniscient narrator is feeling philosophical. RUN-ON SENTENCES OF EMOTION!

Each breath contains the sting of carbon dioxide, each sky holds a falling star, and every day is a disappointment. Harry steels himself and starts again, because tomorrow, perhaps, will be better, though likely it will be worse, and next week, he might be a hero, or a coward, or a champion or a lover and he will never know until he gets there — if he gets there — so he shies away from the future and he hopes for the end and the beginning all at once, a child indignant and shrieking its first breath, a stowaway being lifted into the light.

Cut to a few years later and my prose has calmed down by at least 80%. Take A Story About the Time Pam and Karen Got Their Nails Done and Maybe Had a Little Sex (2007). No poetry; the title is literally just what it says on the tin.

The next day Roy enters the office to supposedly get some soda and really to check Pam out, by which she's obviously embarrassed and Jim is just as obviously anguished. Karen sort of feels like walking out of the office and trying to see if she can work out the details of her transfer via cell phone with Jan on the train home, but that would be pretty lame so instead she goes over to Pam's desk, smiles at Roy as he leaves the room, and asks her what place in Scranton gives good manicure.

The POV is no longer omniscient, but a tight third inside Karen's head. The narrative voice echoes the character's voice, and the tone matches the dreariness of the setting and genre.

But I like cool prose! I like fun words and rhythm and musicality. I love voice. And I love experimenting with all of these. Fic is great because it gave me a chance to try to write other people's voices:

C.S. Lewis

J.K. Rowling (not quite a fic, more of a thought experiment to prove that Dumbeldore could have been gay in the book, not just gay in an interview)

Janelle Monáe (this was a particular challenge because she is a musician, not a novelist)

I don't know if that really explains anything about how my style came to be, but basically what I think is: I read a lot. I experimented with voice and tone and rhythm. I played with structure. I tried both ends of the poetic vs. prosaic spectrum. And then I took nine years off of writing fic (and in that time wrote many academic papers and work emails). I do think I've changed as a writer since the nine-year-nap, but how exactly? Too soon to say.

#writing process #welcome to my tris talk #ask game

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For the digging asks 2 8 12!

ty for asking!!! :)

2 - would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

a mix!! i think a house with a nice backyard in the ‘burbs is the best of both worlds. but to actually answer, i’d rather live in a shoebox condo in the city than alone in the middle of nowhere

8 - do you prefer reading paper or electronic books?

i love reading paper books, but nothing beats audiobooks right now!! getting to read without having to actually do the work?? sign me upt!! plus some of them are truly phenomenal and have like multiple narrators and everything!! (i recommend any classics read by karen savage, she’s an amazing narrator; the queen’s thief series bc the series is bomb and the narrator is amazing with voices; sadie bc the full cast is truly *chef’s kiss*, as is the book itself; and also elizabeth acevedo and jason reynolds’ work bc they narrate their own audiobooks and it’s amazing)

12 - would you ever want to be famous? if so, what for?

i mean, not really, but also i wouldn’t say no to a lot of money or the nobel prize in physiology or medicine so like… (but also neither of those are ever gonna happen lol)

#sothischickshe #txt #ask

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Thoughts on 2018

No need for me to be fancier than that! And yeah I realize that nobody should be using Tumblr any more but until I figure out a proper revive of my old Wordpress site, this will do for now.

So anyway: I wrote this up for a private email list reflecting on the end of the year in terms of things I especially enjoyed culturally. Well, why not share it?

My year went very well — steady at work and in life, being 47 means more aches and pains but you have to learn to live with it. The state of the world is something else again of course and we need not spend more time on the blazingly obvious. That said, the history bug in me has been constantly intrigued by the slow drip of the investigations (and revelations) and were it all fiction, I’d be thoroughly enthralled instead of quietly apprehensive, of course. November did provide some partial relief on that front so bring on the new year. In terms of my own written work, nothing quite equalled my heart/soul going into last year’s Algiers feature for NPR, but my two big Quietus pieces this year — on Gary Numan’s Dance and Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings — were treats to write, while my presentation on the too-obscure Billy Mackenzie at PopCon was a great experience.

In terms of music this has been one of the most concert-heavy years I’ve spent. Even having moved to SF in 2015 I only did the occasional show every so often — there was so much going on (even in a local scene lots of long-timers say has been irrevocably changed) that I was almost spoiled for choice, and part of me also just wanted to relax most nights. But deaths like Prince’s and Bowie’s among many others served as a reminder that there’s no such thing as forever, and you never know what the last chance will be. More veteran acts than younger ones in the end for me — greatest missed concert regrets this year included serpentwithfeet, Lizzo, Perfume Genius and Emma Ruth Rundle among the younger acts, while being ill when Orbital came through will be a lingering annoyance, still having never seen them live. But the huge amount of shows I did see outweighed that, ranging from big arena stops like Fleetwood Mac to celebratory open-air free shows like Mexican Institute of Sound to small club sets by folks like Kinski, Six Organs of Admittance, Kimbra and many more, including, for the first time in years, a show in the UK, specifically a great performance by Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera. If I absolutely had to grade my top picks among shows, Cruel Diagonals, Johnny Marr, Wye Oak, Peter Brotzmann/Keiji Haino, John Zorn/Terry Riley/Laurie Anderson, Laurie Anderson again separately, Nine Inch Nails, VNV Nation, Jarvis Cocker, Beak and, in terms of no real expectations turning into utter delight and thrills, a brilliant set by Lesley Rankine under her Ruby guise, with Martin Atkins on drums. Best damn combination of righteous ire, hilarious raconteurism and compelling, unique approaches to how performance can work I’d seen in a while. (As for recorded music in general, uh, endless?)

TV, as ever a bit sporadic, with a few things on my to-do list — still need to catch The Terror for sure, and what I saw of The Alienist looked good; I love both books so I need to see how it all worked out, similarly with the just-dropped version of Watership Down. Pose I definitely need to catch up with since it sounds like Ryan Murphy stood out of the way to let the best possible team do the business on it, but my real unexpected delight of a show this year was also Murphy-based, American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. While not down the line perfect, it was absolutely more compelling than not, and in fact at its best was a shuddering combination of amazing music cue choices, a reverse structure that helped undercut any attempt at making Cunanan seem sympathetic or an antihero, and, at its considerable best, a ratcheting up of terror and horror that a friend said was almost Kubrickian, and I would have to agree. And, frankly, Darren Criss really did the business as Cunanan, a controlled and powerful turn. Only a few of us seemed to be following it at the time, but when it scored all those Emmys, then while it was as much a reflection of Murphy’s status, it honestly felt well deserved. Meantime, you’ll pry my addiction to all the RuPaul’s Drag Race incarnations from my cold dead hands but it’s the amazing online series that Trixie Mattel and Katya do, UNHhhh, which remains my comedy highlight of the year, with at least a few jaw-dropping/seize up laughing every episode. (Kudos as well for Brad Jones’s The Cinema Snob, ten years running online and still funny as fuck while digging up all kinds of cinematic horrors.) Also, tying back into music a bit, late recommendation for something you can only see on UK TV/streaming so far, but get yourself a VPN and seek out Bros: After the Screaming Stops, in which the two brothers in the late-80s monster hit pop band Bros (never had any traction here but pretty much owned the entire Commonwealth and beyond) try for a comeback. It’s an unintentionally hilarious and harrowing portrait of two twins who have a LOT of issues, have clearly been through a LOT of therapy, but are still…not quite there. UK friends said it was a combination of Spinal Tap, Alan Partridge and David Brent and they were ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

Movies, less specifically to choose from — I remain an essentially sporadic populist when it comes to what I see in theaters, but I can say for sure that Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse is a hell of a thing and will almost certainly prove to be a real year-zero moment down the line. Possibly the most affecting watch was Bohemian Rhapsody, in that I also saw this in the UK — in Brighton, which besides making me think of the band’s song “Brighton Rock” is also notably the country’s most LGBT-friendly city; those I was with felt the movie’s themes, successes and flaws/elisions deeply, and the constant discussion of it for the next few days was very rewarding. As for books, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, delving into Theranos and the amoral duo behind it, was properly enraging and compelling, while Beth Macy’s Dopesick, if not perfect, nonetheless adds to the good literature on the opioid crisis, while as ever indirectly calling into question who’s getting the focus and care now as opposed to in earlier times and places. My favorite music publications as such probably remain the two I most regularly write for, The Quietus and Daily Bandcamp, while Ugly Things is the print publication that I most look forward to with each issue, and am never disappointed.

Podcasts now consist of a lot of my regular cultural engagement, kinda obvious but nonetheless true. Long running faves include My Favorite Murder — Karen and Georgia are an amazing comedy team who have figured out how to reinterpret their anxieties in new ways — The Vanished, which at its best often casts a piercing eye on how official indifference from law enforcement is almost as destructive as their more obvious abuses (recent discovery The Fall Line does this as well, even more explicitly), Karina Longworth’s constantly revelatory Hollywood histories You Must Remember This, Patrick Wyman’s enjoyable history dives on Tides of History, my friend Chris Molanphy’s constantly excellent investigations into music chart history Hit Parade, the great weekly movie chats by MST3K vets Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu along with Carolina Hidalgo on Movie Sign With the Mads, and The Age of Napoleon, which really has hit my history wonk sweet spot. New to me this year was It’s Just a Show, a really wonderful episode by episode — but not in exact order — deep dive into every episode of MST3K ever, by two fun and thoughtful Canadian folks, Adam Clarke and Beth Martin. (Adam also cohosts a new podcast, A Part of Our Scare-itage, specifically looking at Canadian horror. It’s not just Cronenberg!). Among the excellent one-off series this year: American Fiasco by Men in Blazers’ Roger Bennett on the failed US World Cup attempt in 1998, Dear Franklin Jones, a story about the narrator’s experience growing up in a California cult and how his parents came to be followers in the first place, and the Boston Globe’s Gladiator, their audio accompaniment to their in-depth story of the life and ultimate fate of Aaron Hernandez. Finally, totally new series this year that quickly got added to my regular listening: American Grift, a casual and chatty look at various scams and schemes, overseen by Oriana Schwindt, The Eurowhat?, a running look at the Eurovision competition throughout the year from the perspective of two American fans, and The Ace Records Podcast, an often engaging series of one-off interviews with various musicians, fans and so forth by UK writer Pete Paphides (I highly recommend the interviews with Jon Savage and Sheila B). Hands down my two favorite totally new podcasts of the year were The Dream, a more formal story of American grifting in general hosted by Jane Marie — this first season’s focus was on multilevel marketing, and Marie and company’s careful way of seemingly backing into the larger story makes it all the more compelling and ultimately infuriating, especially in the current political climate — and the hilarious Race Chasers, a RuPaul’s Drag Race-celebrating podcast by two veterans of the show, Alaska and Willam, loaded with all kinds of fun, behind the scenes stuff, guests and an easy casualness from two pros that strikes the perfect balance between going through things and just shooting the shit. Returning podcast I’m most looking forward to next year: the second season of Cocaine and Rhinestones, hands down. Check out the first season for sure.

And there ya go! Keep fighting all your respective good fights.

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the similarity between karen savage's narration of anne of green gables and amybeth's delivery on awae is uncanny

#when she started i teared up.....

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2017 reading wrap-up

I don’t normally do this, but I figured that since this year was the first year I kept track of the books I read and also set a specific goal (1/3 books by authors of color), I thought it could be interesting to see what I read in 2017. And yeah, this is a little late but I didn’t have laptop over Christmas break so *shrug*.

I read 186 books total, with 73 being by authors of color. (That’s actually 11 more books than I needed to read, so yay for being an overachiever.) I think having a specific number to aim for helped me to diversify my reading and push me to read things I wouldn’t normally have read and I want to continue doing that. Of those 186 books, 108 had a person of color as a pov character and 61 had a LGBTQIAP+ main character. I think I’ll try to focus on reading more books with good disability representation next year because I only read 23 books with a disabled main character (not counting thrillers that used mental health as an an unreliable narrator plot twist because ugh).

I read mostly the same number of books (between 9-20) each month during school or summer, which surprised me since I normally think of myself as reading more during vacations. Also, I read 9 books when I should have been doing NaNoWriMo, which might explain why I didn’t finish..

Anyway, here’s the whole list below the cut if anyone wants to see!

*=reread

January

1/ Vicarious by Paula Stokes

2/ Run by Kody Keplinger

3/ Pantomime by Laura Lam

4/ Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

5/ Don’t Fail Me Now by Una LaMarche

6/ The Force Awakens novelization by Alan Dean Foster

7/ The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury*

8/ Timekeeper by Tara Sim

9/ Tattoo Atlas by Tim Floreen

10/ Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova*

11/ Life in Motion by Misty Copeland

12/ Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak

13/ Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis

14/ This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston

15/ The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine*

16/ The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine

February

17/ See No Color by Shannon Gibney

18/ This Side of Home by Renée Watson

19/ I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil

20/ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

21/ Rogue One novelization by Alexander Freed

22/ Railhead by Philip Reeve

23/ When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore*

24/ Truthwitch by Susan Dennard*

25/ Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

26/ The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig*

27/ Here We Are: Feminism For the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

28/ We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

29/ City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

30/ Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

31/ A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab*

32/ The Young Elites by Marie Lu*

March

33/ A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab*

34/ A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

35/ History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

36/ The Rose Society by Marie Lu*

37/ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

38/ Windwitch by Susan Dennard

39/ American Street by Ibi Zoboi

40/ The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

41/ The Midnight star by Marie Lu

42/ Heist Society by Ally Carter

43/ Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith

44/ A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho

45/ Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy

46/ Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

47/ Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

48/ Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz*

49/ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

50/ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

51/ The Last of August Brittany Cavallaro

April

52/ Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

53/ Every Breath by Ellie Marney*

54/ Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

55/ Dramarama by E. Lockhart

56/ Every Word by Ellie Marney*

57/ The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

58/ Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee

59/ The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

60/ Caraval by Stephanie Garber

61/ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

62/ Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

63/ Every Move by Ellie Marney

64/ Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

65/ These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas*

66/ A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

67/ Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh

68/ The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

69/ 37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

70/ The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

71/ The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

72/ Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

73/ Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

74/ Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

May

75/ The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

76/ Hunted by Meagan Spooner

77/ The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos*

78/ A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi

79/ Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

80/ How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

81/ To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

82/ P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

83/ P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

84/ Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

85/ You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

86/ The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

87/ The Weight of Stars by Tessa Gratton*

June

88/ Does My Head Look Big In This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah

89/ Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti

90/ The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie*

91/ The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

92/ The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

93/ Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

94/ Cat Girl’s Day Off by Kimberly Pauley

95/ Rook by Sharon Cameron*

96/ York by Laura Ruby

97/ Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

98/ Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

99/ False Hearts by Laura Lam*

100/ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

101/ The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

102/ Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

103 That Thing We Call A Heart by Sheba Karim

104/ In A Perfect World by Trish Doller

July

105/ Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray

106/ Want by Cindy Pon

107/ Behold the Bones by Natalie C. Parker

108/ The Gentleman��s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

109/ When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

110/ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

111/ This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab*

112/ Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older*

113/ Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab

114/ If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

115/ Because You Love To Hate Me edited by Ameriie

116/ Wildlife by Fiona Wood

117/ Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson*

118/ The Diviners by Libba Bray*

119/ Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

120/ Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim

121/ The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

122/ Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray*

123/ Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh

124/ Amberlough by Lara Elena Donelly

August

125/ The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Gray*

126/ The Next Together by Lauren James

127/ Past Perfect by Leila Sales

128/ The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana

129/ Once and For All by Sarah Dessen

130/ Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody

131/ Burn For Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

132/ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman*

133/ The Great American Whatever by Time Federle

134/ Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds

135/ Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

136/ Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

137/ Solo by Kwame Alexander

September

138/ The Savage Dawn by Melissa Gray

139/ Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

140/ Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff

141/ Dove Arising by Karen Bao

142/ Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

143/ Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

144/ Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

145/ Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

146/ Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

147/ Warcross by Marie Lu

148/ Spinning by Tillie Walden

149/ Release by Patrick Ness

150/ Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill

October

151/ Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

152/ Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

153/ Dress Codes For Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

154/ Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older

155/ Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

156/ Venturess by Betsy Cornwell

157/ Night of Cakes and Puppets by Laini Taylor

158/ An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

159/ When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn

160/ Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

161/ Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon

November

162/ Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George

163/ The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

164/ You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

165/ Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

166/ In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

167/ A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

168/ Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

169/ Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

170/ Geekerella by Ashley Poston

December

171/ You Don’t Know Me But I Know You by Rebecca Barrow

172/ Like Water by Rebecca Podos

173/ Last Leaves Falling by Fox Benwell

174/ Black Boy, White School by Brian F. Walker

175/ Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser

176/ They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

177/ The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

178/ If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth

179/ Empress of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

180/ King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Anne Berthelot

181/ Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

182/ Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith

183/ Grendel’s Guide to Love and War by A.E. Kaplan

184/ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

185/ The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

186/ You Don’t Know Me But I Know You by Lilly Anderson

#lulu speaks #lulu reads

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July 2020 Round Up

This July I managed to read 6 books and reviewed 4 books with a few more reviews to write. Unfortunately my health isn’t improving much at the moment which is making me slip a little bit with my reviews, so forgive me if I don’t get them out as quickly as I’d like to.

I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well, as it looks like we have a second wave of people being infected by the terrible virus.

July Reviews:

Book One.

The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

Pages: 320. Publication Date: 7 July 2020. My Rating:

MY REVIEW

Book Two.

The Shelf by Helly Acton

Pages: 416. Publication Date: 9 July 2020. My Rating:

MY REVIEW

Book Three.

The Ghost of You by Tori Fox

Pages: 251. Publication Date: 13 July 2020. My Rating:

MY REVIEW

Book Four

This Lovely City by Louise Hare

Pages: 400. Publication Date: 12 March 2020. My Rating:

MY REVIEW

Books Read This Month:

The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

Billionaire Boss Undercover Affair by Kyra Radcliffe

The Shelf by Helly Acton

The Ghost of You by Tori Fox

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

Primal Howl (Primal Howlers MC Book 1) by Piper Davenport

Recently Acquired Books This Month:

Pre-Ordered Books:

Stealing the Crown by T P Fielden

Amazon First Read:

The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

Across the Winding River by Aimie K Runyan

Amazon Purchases:

The Little Teashop in Tokyo by Julie Caplin

The Jasmine Wife by Jane Coverdale

NetGalley:

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

Breathless by Jennifer Niven

Friends and Strangers by J Courtney Sullivan

The Ghost of You by Tori Fox

The Last Piece by Imogen Clark

Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall

NetGalley Audio:

Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall, Audio Book Narrated by Helen Keeley

Independent Authors:

Born for Leaving by Jude Munro

BookBub Free Books:

For a list of all the FREE books Via BookBub please go to Books Acquired via BookBub in July 2020 Post.

Book Blitz Posted This Month:

Opps, My Bad by A C Pontone

Princess Bachelorette Various Authors

Stolen Bride by C Hallman & J L Beck

Kaps (Angel Bound Offspring #5) by Cgristine Baver

New Beginnings by Janet Olson

Love under Lockdown by Various Authors

The Romeo Arrangement by Nicole Snow

Shelter for Tory (Station 7: Crew 5) by Nicole Flockton

Born for Leaving by Jude Munro

The Aftermath of Drifting Away by Audrey Beaudoin

Requiem (Roseblood #3) by Emily Shore

The Proposal (Cupcakes & Cocktails #1) by Maya Hughes

Fame & Privilege by L C Reagan

My Gargoyle by Lawna Mackie

Duke by Kiru Taye

Moonlight & Whiskey by Tricia Lynne

Savage Beginnings (The Moretti Crime Family #1) by C Hallman & J L Beck

Falling for the Innkeeper by Meghann Whistler

The Game Maker by Kitty Thomas

The Deception Incident by Marla Holt

The Art of Serendipity by Karen Anne

Between the Pages by Lauren Baker

Man Down (Rookie Rebels #3) by Kate Meader

Hasty (Do-Over Series #4) by Julia Kent

The Hollow Gods (The Chaos Cycle #1) by A J Vrana

Book Blitz Cover Reveals This Month:

Revved to the Maxx by Melanie Moreland

The Six Month Lease by Melanie Munton

February’s Favourite Book Blitz Cover

February’s Favourite NetGalley Cover

February’s Favourite Cover Reveal

February’s Favourite BookBub Cover

So the reasons for this months favourite book covers for the four different categories are:

Requiem: I just like the gothic look of this book, I must admit that I’m a bit of a goth fan and love to wear T-shirts similar to this.

Revved to the Max: Well I had to choose this one as I do love a ripped biker, such a shame there aren’t any bikers near where I live.

The Last Piece: I like how this door way looks with the lovely flowers around it. It just looks so inviting.

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: This is such a cute and bright cover and I love the title too.

#ARC, #BookBlogger, #BookBub, #BookReviews, #Books, #Covers, #Fiction, #GoodReads, #July2020, #JulyRoundUP, #Kindle, #NetGalley, #NetGalleyuk, #NewBooksAcquired, #ReadingChallenge

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📖Persuasion📖 by Jane Austen: Listen- & Read-Along, Chapters Three & Four

Doubling up this time, and maybe going forward, because this is where be plot starts, and I don’t want to lose the momentum of the narrative. Also, I’m making an executive decision to schedule these posts for Tuesdays and Thursdays, in addition to my queue (which is 99.999% of everything I post).

Chapter Two Discussion starts here.

Here’s the Discussion Start for Chapter One.

Audio of Karen Savage’s Reading on YouTube, starting with Chapter Three (Three and Four, together, ~ 26 minute listen at normal speed).

Moira Fogarty’s reading at LibriVox (Chapter Three and Four, together, ~ 30 minute listen)

Text of Chapter Three and Chapter Four at Project Gutenberg

Synopses:

Chapter Three: Mr. Shepherd, his daughter Mrs. Clay, and even Miss Elizabeth Elliot gang up on Sir Walter, in order to persuade him to let Kellynch Hall to Admiral and Mrs. Croft, arguing that navy folk are very careful and responsible in taking care of physical things. But Sir Walter is doubtful, because life at sea makes people age before their time, and turn ugly, and he’s afraid that having a sailor about the place would ruin his ✨Aesthetic✨. He’s eventually convinced, however, because an “Admiral” is a person of rank (as opposed to an ordinary “Mister”), but “Baronet” still ranks higher, and that strokes his ego.

Chapter Four: Anne, listening in on this conversation, realizes that the long lost love of her life, a Frederick Wentworth, is Admiral Croft’s younger brother-in-law. And if the Crofts are going to be living at Kellynch Hall for the foreseeable future, there’s a very good chance that Frederick will be coming to visit. And she has to go for a walk in the garden to cool off and have a flashback, and think about her life.

What stood out to me:

(In General) After I finished my most recent reread of this, I realized that Austen structured this novel much like a modern mystery writer would, only without the usual murder or other crime (well, there’s a bit of crime, revealed toward the end, but that’s not what this story is about). The mystery, here, is figuring out how different people feel about each other in relation to how they act (focusing mostly on Anne and Frederick, naturally, but not exclusively them), and every one of them is working with a limited perspective and can only see part of what’s going on.

Jane Austen is still writing in Omniscient Narrator Mode, in that she slips in and out of different characters’ perspectives, but she is very canny in which details she lets slip to the reader. And Chapter Four is where she starts laying out her breadcrumb trail about who knows what, when.

Favorite Quotes:

From Chapter Three:

By the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a native of Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was wishing to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which, however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing--(it was just as he had foretold, Mr Shepherd observed, Sir Walter's concerns could not be kept a secret,)--accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch Hall being to let [...]

Sure -- Admiral Croft heard about this opportunity by accident -- of course he did. I believe you Mr. Shepherd, honest, I do! [*cough*]

From Chapter Four:

He was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however suspicious appearances may be,

[I appreciate your authorial wink at the audience, Miss Austen. Nicely played]

but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his brother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806; and having no parent living, found a home for half a year at Monkford. He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling. Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail. They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love. It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one. Troubles soon arose. Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter. He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.

This, here, is my biggest regret of all three film adaptations, prior to Netflix’s most recent (which I don’t think counts at all): none of them actually show this flashback of Anne and Frederick actually happy together, and it’s what I miss the most. I’d love to actually see Anne laughing and carefree and happy with the man she loves, so that we can have that as a point of comparison to how she is now. I wouldn’t even want younger actors to play the younger characters (actors in their mid- to late-twenties are already hired to play nineteen year olds), just show her “in the bloom of youth” by how she acts, so later (after *mumble*, a few chapters from now), we can recognize the change when “the bloom of youth” returns.

She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it. But it was not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted, in putting an end to it. Had she not imagined herself consulting his good, even more than her own, she could hardly have given him up.

This is another bit I’d love to see in the flashback: have us hear Lady Russell convince Anne that withdrawing her acceptance of Frederick Wentworth’s proposal would be for his benefit (”You know, my dear, navel officers don’t get promoted as quickly if they have wives at home. The military professions would rather have their officers be single men” [or something to that effect]).

for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions, on his side, totally unconvinced and unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a relinquishment. He had left the country in consequence.

Ouch.

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