Her father promptly deposited Marianne in Bath with her grandmother, and Marianne’s twin sister, Cecily, in London, and fled to France with his grief. It follows Marianne who has lost her mother just over a year earlier.

The genre, actually, is why I put off reading it for so long.īut this one definitely has a modern style to it – there aren’t looooooong descriptions of dresses or people or the landscape. I’m more a fan of the movie versions, like the low-class citizen I am.

To be honest, the only Jane Austen book I’ve ever read is Pride & Prejudice, which I read with my mom when I was in high school. edenbrooke by julianne donaldsonĮdenbrooke is a regency romance, which is not a genre I read a lot of. I went home and finished it over lunch, which made the adjustment from luxury accommodations in Ohio back to eating leftovers much more pleasant. I OWE YOU BIG TIME.” I may possibly have used less caps. In fact, the very first thing I did when my plane landed back in North Carolina was text Ralphie and say, “YOU WERE SO RIGHT. And, as Ralphie had promised, I did indeed love it. One can only look at ridiculous products in the SkyMall magazine for so long).Īnd so it came to pass that on the flight home, I finally read Edenbrooke. Over the next months, I kept hearing it mentioned, and so, when we moved to North Carolina, it was one of the very first books I checked out from my new library.Īnd then it sat in my library basket for months (clearly, taking advantage of the fact I can renew my books FIVE TIMES here).įinally, when I was packing for my trip to Cincinnati last week for Pampers Blogger Day and anticipating two child-free flights, I stuck it in my bag (airplanes are my trick for reading books I keep MEANING to get around to reading because there aren’t many distractions on an airplane. (I did return it on time, though, because I am a good person). I think you’ll love it.”īut I am an idiot, and I did not. Back in the spring, Ralphie came to pick up her daughter from my house and brought with her the library copy of Edenbrooke.

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