The Lizzie Bennet Diaries....

Jane Austen Silhouette 

My best friend, Decoy Betty, has gotten me HOOKED on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, it's a youtube sensation.  This week hasn't been the best week in the world for us here...... and so I literally spent all of Wednesday watching all 90 of these 3-5 minute videos.  I know... a little crazy.  But watching them also reminded me that I haven't yet started my yearly reading of Jane Austen.  After digging through box after box, I finally unearthed my beloved and worn books.  During my search, Gilbert said to me "I'm sure you can find them for free on the kindle."  But I didn't want to read any of them on my kindle, I wanted MY books.  

As I was reading Pride and Prejudice, I took a moment to really look at my copy and was reminded of a quote that I love.... "A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."

I'm not sure who wrote it, but as I stared down at my copy of P&P, I noticed the binding that was breaking and coming apart at the bottom, the yellowing pages and the little creases that dog's ears left behind... and I knew that I would never want to replace my copy because of the memories that this one held for me.  It was one of the last gifts I ever got from my Grandmother and I knew at that moment that I wouldn't replace it for anything in the world.

What have you been up to this week?


PS. NJ vs. NH this week: We went to one of Gilbert's friend's houses for dinner the other day I made brownies..... My Favorite Brownies actually.  Gilbert's friend took one bite and said "You made these!  You can come over to my house any time you want!"  Apparently making your own baked goods isn't done a lot in this part of NJ (I can't speak for the rest of state).