My kids are playing Untitled Goose Game and by that I mean one is running around honking and the other is pretending to chase with a broom. 🪿🪿

Thank you all for such a fun month of reading and a fun watch party! Big thanks to our fearless leader @laurenblish.bsky.social 🛁

My husband has abandoned me in my Persuasion watch 🛁 I was like, you won't even stay for the good part? He said he already saw the best part, when Louisa fell. Ummmm

Men, I would like you to notice the butts in this movie and consider breeches. Just a thought. 🛁

My husband is aghast that I haven't mentioned that Fiona Shaw is in Andor lol 🛁

The way Charles holds his spoon to eat soup is cracking me up 🛁

I've got my comfy Austen pants on, ready to watch Persuasion! 🛁

Below are streaming options for Persuasion (1995)! This should be possible for free via a BritBox trial, if you have more self-control &/or a better memory than I do! We start tonight at 9 eastern, please join even if you didn't have time for the reading this month! It's a really lovely film. 🛁📖

#booksky Come join us!

Had a lovely walk from my car into work this morning. The Cedar Waxwings have been hanging around again and I've been stalking them but can't get good pics lol #tenminmerlin #tenminutemerlin

Anne pulling a Lizzy move in today's chapter 🛁

Wow, this is...not good. Poor Bibee :( #guardsball

My 5 yr old is trying to teach my mom to play Pokémon CCG and it is the funniest thing ever. He's saying things like "use your trainer" and she's like "what does that mean!"

My hold came innnnnn. So this is what I am reading on our rest day 🛁

Regarding three shilling pieces: "Mention of this coin dates the novel precisely, for this denomination was issued as a silver coin only from 1811, three years before the action is set, to 1816, the year the novel was finished." 🛁

Tooth and Claw, my World Fantasy Award winning fantasy of manners about dragons who eat each other is only $1.99 as an ebook today, probably just in the US www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...

Grumpy Fake Boyfriend was released 8 years ago! Free in ebook at all retailers. jackielaubooks.com/books/grumpy...

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. 🐈 This is my very sweet, very old girl Juhani.

The Dalrymple/Carterets rolling up into Bath 🛁 like:

Happy #WorldGothDay Our resident medievalist explains why we refer to some architecture of the Middle Ages as Gothic.

I am not a shrimp eater but I need you all to gaze upon and pre-order this amazing shirt from @skypeascientist.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/shri...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: Fall Out Boy Goo Goo Dolls (x2) Rufus Wainwright (x3) Flogging Molly Simple Plan Guster Dream Theater Eve6 Alison Krauss and Union Station The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by John Williams (x2)

The Woz said I will not be booed lol I also love the lull of the crowd as they’re trying to figure out where he’s going hahaha (Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwo...)

ROLL CALL for the cleveland stop of the FABULOUS BODIES book tour this summer. JULY 11TH with cuyahoga public library. tickets are goin fast dont wait buckaroos www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

Renewing my radiation safety training today and got shown this very helpful infographic

Testing Testing 1 2 🐾

Martinez is just popping off this year!! Love to see it 🥰 #guardsball

The buckeyes are blooming #bloomscrolling

I feel it in my fingers I feel it in my toes

"If I loved a man, as she loves the Admiral, I would be always with him, nothing should ever separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else.”🛁 I love this line by Louisa! 🥰 But rereading this book I now appreciate that we are immediately shown the Crofts 1/

In reference to Charles Hayter's "large books," my edition gives a long description of folio, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo sizes, but I think this crowd is already familiar... 🛁🐋

My edition speculates that based on Wentworth's net worth, his yearly income would be about £1250. While less than Bingley or Darcy, he would easily be able to support a wife and family comfortably. Current equiv. ~$100-150K 🛁 Who's a good match now, Lady Russell?? 😎

The glee of the commentators when the ABS challenges run out. "Yay, we're done!" 🤣 #guardsball

Yeah, interesting that the dialogue between Wentworth and his sister is really the only convo in the book that Anne isn't present for 🛁 (in the movie they manage to nicely work it into a convo she IS present for) Almost leaning towards dual POV (to use romance jargon) but then reverting

🛁 Captain Wentworth talking about Anne like:

Hola, #bsbookclub! I’ll use this break day to announce that June’s read is Haruki Murakami’s surreal masterpiece “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, a book that COULD NOT be more different from Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”. (1/5)

Side quest! for our 🛁 rest day: I really enjoyed this book and it has some great ideas for future #bsbookclub reads 😉 (Hope all my fellow moms get some reading time today!)

I studied in Salamanca for a semester in university ❤️ We actually took a train from Salamanca to Lisboa and it was a lovely journey and one of my favorite trips from that time.

Not another UNESCO World Heritage Site, dad! (In the Plaza Mayor, Salamanca)

Good riddance to this creep. Wanted to be governor, but couldn't get the blessing of Mad King Cheeto. He's stomping off to be an attack lawyer for a vile Christian Nationalist group. I knew this guy in college! We were journalism majors at Ohio State and worked for the school paper The Lantern.

If you're reading this, drop a pic of the member that caught your attention first: V has been my bias since War of Hormone MV.

All right, things are looking up here #guardsball

"One of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there, was her being treated with too much confidence by all parties, and being too much in the secret of the complaints of each house."🛁

My edition pointed out how Austen likes to make gentle fun of hypochondriac-type people. Here we see Mary, but there's also Mr. Woodhouse in Emma and Mrs. Bennet with her nerves in P&P. 🛁

So what do you guys think? Did Anne make a mistake in breaking her engagement to Wentworth? Or was Lady Russell (et al) correct in her advice? 🛁 (Of course your answer may change by the end of the book...or not)

🛁 Facts incoming: "St Domingo" is now the Dominican Republic and Jane Austen's brother Francis was in the "action" there in 1806.

Texas Tech thinks Moby-Dick is queer and that's good enough for me 🐋

If your brain doesn't make the chemicals it needs, there is nothing shameful or dependent on getting those chemicals from a doctor. Saying elsewise is saying that glasses, shoes, and clothing are all shameful, as our bodies are not naturally equipped to walk on broken glass without injury.

Everything you need to know about Ohio’s May 5 primary today. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. If not returned by mail, absentee ballots must be received by your board of elections by 7:30 p.m. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/30/e...