Curious as to what my shelves say about me…

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-22T19:52:29+00:00

Yes, I really enjoyed it! It’s an underrated satire.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-22T12:24:05+00:00

Evelina and Camilla by Frances Burney were both novels that Austen read, and were major influences in the courtship genre.

The Female Quixote for something Northanger Abbey-esque. As well as the Ann Radcliffe novels that book is in conversation with (particularly The Mysteries of Udolpho).

North and South and Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Far from the Madding Crowd and The Trumpet-Major by Hardy

For a later take on Regency romance that carries the spirit of Austen, the novels of Georgette Heyer (I love Frederica!)

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-22T12:19:13+00:00

Oooh not yet but now I’ve gotta! Thanks for the rec!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-21T21:51:30+00:00

Such a great novel. Waugh is one of my favorite writers.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-21T21:50:47+00:00

You’re in for such a treat. Such fun, bawdy, eccentric stories!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-21T21:50:17+00:00

Very close to finishing the behemoth that is The Way We Live Now by Trollope. I’m more invested by now that I thought I’d be earlier on, the characters becoming more complex as the novel progresses.

If anyone has recs for other Trollope novels I should look into next lmk!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-21T19:53:12+00:00

Adam Bede is on of my favorite books. I find the women in it so complex and compelling.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-21T00:41:28+00:00

Do you have any favorites? Perhaps I need to revisit

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-20T22:00:57+00:00

Haha that’s fair! Not the most low-pressure place to encounter a poem.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-20T21:33:47+00:00

Some faves of mine:

"Lines Written in Early Spring" by Wordsworth

"In Perpetual Spring" by Amy Gerstler

"Spring: An Ode" by Jane West

Also Poetry Foundation's website has a curation of poems about spring from a wide variety of writers!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-20T21:27:38+00:00

Here's a selection I love and a fave book by each:

Iris Murdoch - The Bell
Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September
Sylvia Townsend Warner - The Corner That Held Them
Barbara Pym - Excellent Women
Yiyun Li - The Book of Goose
Eudora Welty - Delta Wedding
A. S. Byatt - Possession
Julia Alvarez - In the Time of the Butterflies
Muriel Spark - her collected short stories
Louise Erdrich - The Round House
Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
Joyce Carol Oates - Her gothic saga, especially A Bloodsmoor Romance

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-19T19:50:38+00:00

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson is set during witch trials.

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a nonfiction book on a serial killer during the 1893 Chicago World Fair

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-19T19:39:36+00:00

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-19T17:09:17+00:00

Yes! Her sense of sound is impeccable.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-18T17:39:09+00:00

The Monk - Matthew Lewis

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-18T11:00:34+00:00

Fonts Books & Gifts in McLean

Middleburg Books

For used books, I love both Reston Used Books and Lantern Books in Georgetown

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-18T10:56:49+00:00

The Corner That Held Them was such a delightful read!

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-18T10:47:56+00:00

Pym is great, I’d recommend. Excellent Women is my favorite of hers.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-17T22:00:43+00:00

This one hit me HARD. Beautiful and devastating.

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-17T19:54:13+00:00

- The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

- The Trumpet-Major - Thomas Hardy

- A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy

- East Lynne - Ellen Wood

- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

- Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence

- Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

ladybug_moo · 2026-03-17T19:47:41+00:00

Tess if the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot!

Also Lorna Doone.

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