#pride and prejudice and the city

[just-a-girl-who-likes-sharks]

January 2024 books 💜

[vogelmeister]

if i had a dollar for every time i have consumed time travel media with a character called lucy that concludes with lucy deciding not to continue life in their original time and me wondering how they are going to live in their new time period with no formal id or birth certificate, i would have two dollars which isnt a lot but weird it happened twice

[maxalotlxl]

Pride and Prejudice and the City by Rachael Lippincott

Also Known As Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

4 Stars

Sometimes all I want is a cute and easy romance to make me blush and kick my feet like I'm a teenager experiencing love for the first time. This was all this was too me, it was a simple easy read that didn't need much effort or thought.

There is some magical time travel, that sent Audrey into the past where she believed she had to find love to get herself back to her own time. She did so with the help of Lucy, a rich man's daughter from this past time who is being forced into a loveless marriage.

There was definitely a few points in which I just wanted them both to figure out their feelings already and kiss, but they got there in the end. Kind of wanted more of a follow up on the ending because I felt like I needed to know what they were going to do after such a major change in their lives.

Finished January 22nd

[im-secretly-a-frog]

nothing compares to finishing a really good book with a happy ending and just letting pure joy run through your body. Flapping, squealing, jumping about. Not worrying about who will see you. I love it.

[travelingtostories]

F I N I S H E D : Pride and Prejudice and the City by Rachael Lippincot.

[flywitchesfly]

I did a thing 🎧🎶

[thekenobee]

Let’s settle this once and for all-

Tag yourself!

[lascitasdelashoras]

Literature Rocks Glass

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[regicidal-defenestration]

To carry on from my last post I'd also like to make something up entirely (possibly) and propose this curve, not applicable in a way even close to being universal, but it does illustrate my point right now:

How Much Does A Form Of Media Need To Explain Its Existence (eg, Framing Devices)?

Where in an established form of media, you don't necessarily need to explain why it exists. A modern book doesn't necessarily explain to you how the words are on the page, or why you know what the characters are thinking.

Compare this to older novels which tend to explain their existence much more. Don Quixote (and indeed, the chivalric romances it parodied) claimed to be translations of works from distant lands. Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde are epistolary.

And then, of course, once an idea gets established, people start playing around with it. You get your Houses of Leaves - a book made of an annotated manuscript of an essay of a film (if I remember all the levels correctly) - works that break the fourth wall or play with their own truthfulness.

We start by asking "why does this exist?" and we get told letters, a story found, a story told, and we grow comfortable in these answers for a while until once again we find ourselves asking "okay, but why?"

[editsulli]

In the city of Fortuna anything can happen 😉

[vogelmeister]

the point in the queer book where they realise they’re falling for the girl and not the guy

[human-being61]

The bottom shelf of my bookcase is the “Hall of Important Books” aka the books that mean the most to me. In it we have Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, A Tale of Two Cities, and of course, the entire The Folk of The Air series

[cheetahgirlju]

The Mr. Darcy Standard

Every night, my friends and I spend a good amount of time discussing numerous topics. One of our top conversations last night still lingers in my head. The topic of standards. Growing up on romantic movies like Pride and Prejudice has lifted the bar. Men don’t act like they did in the early 2000s films. They don't chase you around New York begging for your attention. They don't fall in love with you so hard that they have to outburst their feelings in the rain because their love has become too overpowering. It's so disappointing how through time women have had to lower their standards to achieve the most average men.

You're telling me Noah built Allie a house after not seeing her for years, wrote her a letter every day for a year, and waited for her, but my first date was walking to Jack in the Box and the liquor store. I'm not asking for the world, I'm just asking for a decent feeling of actual attraction to males. I know how annoying it is to get the ick for every man. As Snookie said, “Guys are douchebags and I hate them all, they don't know how to deal with women, and that's why the lesbian rate is going up in this country.” I feel as though real love is only constructed by intellectual people, and how many intellectual men are left in the world?

I just want to feel wanted and yearned for. That may be corny but EVERYTHING is painted as corny nowadays. Maybe that's the reason it's so hard for men to be romantic. They probably fear embarrassment but maybe it'll be less embarrassing when you're really really in love. Sometimes I feel as if I'm the issue. Maybe my standards are too high but I fully believe that if someone like Nicholas Sparks can write ‘The Notebook’, then not all hope is lost.

I want the old timey type of love that feels as if it could last forever. I would gladly take what Mr. Big and Carrie had because even though they fought a lot, there was still genuine love there. I genuinely tear up thinking about the possibility of me being alone or even worse feeling alone. Growing up with nothing but toxic relationships as a guide for love, I now just want to know if it's real. I’m tired of boys, bring the men in.

I always try to see from a man’s point of view but I refuse to put myself in incompetent shoes. If The Notebook is unrealistic and I'll never achieve that level of love, even without the house, without the rain, without the letters, and without the book, I’m just talking about their love. Is that so unrealistic? Is love dead? I don’t care if this is corny because this topic spirals through my head constantly. I wonder if I'm wasting time. Will I ever love someone that deeply? I’m not desperate for just anyone. I'm desperate for that feeling, that's why I never have deep connections with men. Because why am I going to waste time with something I don’t deserve. I deserve to be wanted and pursued, but more than that I deserve the mixture of simplicity and complexity that comes with loving someone. Maybe I am desperate, let’s hope my longing will help me in the long haul.

This is just my personal diary and my personal manifestation book where I allow myself to have opinions and allow others to either agree or disagree. So I'll end this by asking if there are any real Mr. Darcy’s and Mr. Bigs out there. I'm not asking for the exact love they had, I'm just asking for their desperation and most importantly their intimacy. Complex and in love. I'll update if I ever get this lol or maybe i'm just delusional.

- By Me <3

[whenthegoldrays]

Every day I am haunted by “Darcy Fitzwilliam” (female protagonist of a Hallmark Channel genderbent remake of Pride and Prejudice)