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In The Navy

In The Navy

by Ren Ren

Feed for #bsbookclub's May read, Persusion by Jane Austen. Reply to the pinned post to join the feed, post with #inthenavy or 🛁 to join the conversation. BlueskyFeedCreator.com Info & Donate: https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/laurenblish.bsky.social/inthenavy#donate

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Sara Habein
@sarahabein.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
My edition had a note that it's above knighthood, but he couldn't hang out in the House of Lords. 🛁
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Jacob Harris
@jacobharr.is
about 8 hours ago
I like how every British book we’ve read for the book club has had crushing debt as a plot driver. Yikes! 🔒🛁🛀
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Lattesdotter
@lattesdotter.bsky.social
about 10 hours ago
🛁 #IntheNavy Bluesky book group discusses Persuasion by Jane Austin.

This sentence about Anne Elliott's mother is so very Jane Austen : "Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards". #inthenavy

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Lattesdotter
@lattesdotter.bsky.social
about 10 hours ago
This sentence about Anne Elliott's mother is so very Jane Austen : "Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards". #inthenavy
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
“She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne.” When you’ve been raised rich but have used up ur money. 🥴🛁
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
Poor Lady Elliot, and who could ever blame Lady Russell for not being interested in marrying, particularly in marrying Sir Walter. 🛁
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
about 11 hours ago
In case we didn’t fully get it, she adds shortly thereafter: “Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character” 😂🛁
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Elly
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
about 12 hours ago
Austen really knows how to roast a guy. First sentence of the book starts: “Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage” And now we know exactly who he is. 💀 🛁
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Sara Habein
@sarahabein.bsky.social
about 13 hours ago
If you'd like your reply to be more visible and at the top of the feed, make sure you add the 🛁 when replying to another post!
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Jedi M
@jedibyknight.com
about 14 hours ago
Agreed with both Jacob and Ren: Sally Hawkins' is good, Amanda Root's is superb. Either is worth a watch, but if you're going to pick one I'd go for Root/Hinds. 🛁 (Would only recommend the new Netflix one if you want a laugh or enjoy looking at Henry Golding in a cravat)
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Jedi M
@jedibyknight.com
about 15 hours ago
Regency ads: "Reduce your expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride, with this one simple trick!" 🛁
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Holly Allen
@hollyallen.bsky.social
about 15 hours ago
Ch 1: Old book, old writing, had to really slow down my reading. I needed to look up how this other William Elliot is related to Elizabeth, since that was very unclear. And I also would like to know how to "reduce [my] expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride." 🙄 🛁
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Holly Allen
@hollyallen.bsky.social
about 16 hours ago
This month I'm reading Persuasion by Jane Austen for the Blue Sky Bookclub. I've never read it before, and I'm hoping for a light hearted read. I have mixed feelings about Austen, but have really enjoyed the movie adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. This thread will have my comments. #inthenavy 🛁

Okay, the Persuasion feed is live! Please reply to *this skeet only* if you'd like to be added for our May read. 📖 🛁 or #inthenavy to post, feed is here: bsky.app/profile/laur...

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David B
@davidbiers.bsky.social
about 19 hours ago
This is the first time in trading anything by Austen. I've been told she's worth reading my whole life, and I've seen a few movie adaptations, but never paid attention. I'm looking forward to it! 🛁

After reading chapter 1 of Persuasion I wasn't sure whether I had seen the movie adaptation of this... shows how much I pay attention to some movies. Turns out I have seen the 95 adaptation of Sense & Sensibility and no adaptations of Persuasion 🛁

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David B
@davidbiers.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
After reading chapter 1 of Persuasion I wasn't sure whether I had seen the movie adaptation of this... shows how much I pay attention to some movies. Turns out I have seen the 95 adaptation of Sense & Sensibility and no adaptations of Persuasion 🛁
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Jedi M
@jedibyknight.com
about 20 hours ago
A potentially helpfully map of important locations in the book, courtesy of The Annotated Persuasion 🛁
A map of the lower part of Britain with Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucester, and Somerset from north to south on the west part of England, London to the East, and Plymouth, Lyme, and Portsmouth on the southern coast in order from west to east
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Mary Bannister (MaryB)
@maryb2004.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
In the description of the late Lady Elliot I had flashes of Charlotte Lucas (without the youthful infatuation). 🛁
His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own. Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgment and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards. - She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being in the world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends, and her children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them.
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Sarah Werner
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
Ahhhhhh love the clarity of this schedule! Another reason why Persuasion is the best 🛁
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Jeanne Thornton
@jeannethornton.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
(dril candles tweet) 🛁
Sir Walter and Elizabeth contemplate how they can reduce their ruinous expenses "without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne"
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Amanda Watson
@amndw2.bsky.social
about 20 hours ago
Wow, the way this paragraph simultaneously indicts Elizabeth Elliot and the circumstances that made her what she is. “The prosperity and the nothingness”! #inthenavy
Text from Chapter 1 of Jane Austen’s Persuasion: “Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness, of her scene of life-such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.”
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Ren
@laurenblish.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
Having been seen with someone at Tattersalls and the House of Commons is basically like running into him at the grocery store or a coffee shop and assuming people noticed you together. 🛁
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Ren
@laurenblish.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
Those poor, faded 29-year-olds! 🛁
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Ren
@laurenblish.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
"Nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted..." This is amazing characterization, such a burn on Sir Walter. 🛁
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Ren
@laurenblish.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
In other words, it's the epitome of telling instead of showing and it totally works anyway. I feel like you don't get this kind of thing as much when the novel is a little more grown up. 🛁
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