A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 2012

This post is dedicated to the lovely conversations that we have had via Facebook. I hope you enjoy a blast from Book Club of the Past! (a.k.a. earlier in 2012)

Kayla Phillips

Sense & Sensibility = Misery. I can think of 250,000,000,000 other things I would rather be doing right now. Don't hate me Katie,Karla, and Betsy. — in West Peoria.

Betsy Wilkinson shared a link.

January 21

Have I mentioned how much I love our Book Club? Because I do. Friendship, accountability, intellectual discussion, and so much more.

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Karla Wilkinson

February 1

This one goes out to my fellow book clubbers, Betsy, Kayla Phillips, and Katie. Although we know that it should really say "Find yourself a Mr. Knightley."

"Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Mr. Darcy." Words to live by? Definitely the best iteration of "keep calm.." we've seen!

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Kayla Phillips Before I read what you wrote, I thought to myself, or a Mr. Knightly. Uh, that would be ridiculous if it said keep calm and find yourself a Mr. Ferrar.

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Betsy Wilkinson Unless Mr. Ferrars really did look like Dan Stevens (aka Matthew Crawley)... then I would take him!

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Kayla Phillips Okay, well good thing it doesn't say, "Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Mr Collins." Because he wouldn't want you to find him, he would want you to reject him, because, after all, that would be the fashionable thing to do.

February 1 at 8:16pm · Like

Betsy Wilkinson Of course!

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Katie Bogner oh, I love this

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Katie Bogner Has anyone else started Mansfield Park? Maybe by the time we are done we will think it should say, "Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Mr Bertram." ... Or maybe not.

February 2 at 9:21am · Like

Karla Wilkinson I have not started it yet and I didn't even remember that was the next one. Give me some time to recover from the last one!

February 2 at 10:28am · Like

Katie Bogner Books that need recovery time...maybe we need to rethink this whole idea

February 2 at 10:34am · Like

Katie Bogner p.s. Karla, you should post this picture on the blog!

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Betsy Wilkinson Hahaha! I would just like to say that (even though I know nothing about the man) with a name like "Mr. Bertram," I can't imagine anyone wanting to find him!

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Katie Bogner In one version of the Mansfield Park movie, Mr. Bertram is played by the same actor who played Mr. Knightly in the TV series version of Emma...and I have effectively brought the conversation full circle!

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Kayla Phillips I"m taking another loop in the circle because I just want you all to know I am BEYOND excited for Mansfield Park because it's my favorite and I am leading the discussion, so I can finally put that English Education degree of mine to use!

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Betsy Wilkinson Woohoo!! Ok, now I am a little bit excited to start reading... Madam Discussion Leader, do you think you could maybe post weekly or twice-weekly discussion questions to help us stay on track with our reading?

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Kayla Phillips Yes! What a great idea. Weekly discussion questions will be on the way once I start. (Probably after the viewing party.)

February 3 at 5:22am · Like

Betsy Wilkinson Um, I was half-way kidding! But then again, you will probably look forward to that, won't you?!

February 3 at 10:22pm · Like

Katie Bogner I think weekly discussion questions sound like fun. However, I was just called an overachiever by several people tonight in another context...

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Kayla Phillips I will absolutely be looking forward to it. And I'm okay with being called an overachiever.

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Betsy Wilkinson I just happened to read these old posts today, and I would like to direct everyone's attention to Kayla's 3rd comment above. There it is, in writing... she professed her love for MP, and oh, how all of our opinions are so very different now!

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Kayla Phillips I must have been delusional back in the 11th grade.

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Betsy Wilkinson I will accept that as a plausible excuse.

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Kayla Phillips

May 1

Bookclub is the best. Live blogging. Right Now.http://atruthuniversallyacknowledgedladies.blogspot.com/2012/05/live-blogging-be-there.html — with Karla Wilkinson and 2 others.

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Live Blogging! Be there!

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Betsy Wilkinson I would like to dedicate tonight's discussion to our reader, Jessica!

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Kayla Phillips Has anyone heard from Jessica yet???

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Betsy Wilkinson I haven't checked our club email; have you?

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Kayla Phillips I just did! No sign yet!

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Betsy Wilkinson Bummer!

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Kayla Phillips She had probably figured that in all of our fame and celebrity we wouldn't have the time to respond. She probably gave up hope.

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Betsy Wilkinson *Tear...

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Jane Austen writes in Persuasion, "It sometimes happens that a women is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and generally speaking, if there has been neither ill-health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost." As I'm cramming for book club, I'm feeling pretty good about the three, quality years I still have left of life. — with Katie Bogner and2 others.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Facebook Musings

This post is dedicated to the lovely conversations that we have had via Facebook. I hope you enjoy a blast from Book Club of the Past! (a.k.a. earlier in 2012)

This post is dedicated to the lovely conversations that we have had via Facebook. I hope you enjoy a blast from Book Club of the Past! (a.k.a. earlier in 2012)

Kayla Phillips

Betsy Wilkinson shared a link.

Karla Wilkinson

Kayla Phillips

Kayla Phillips

Hopefully there will be more to come!