Dearest Shadi,

It has been brought to my attention that I am not a member of your blog.

This fills me with deep sadness.

Invite me? :)

Love,
Lauren. xox

ps. I miss you!

Mr Bingley

Hi Girls and Possibly Boy Readers,

I'm taking a short moment in my ridiculously boring and relatively safe life to say how much Mr Bingley annoys me. He's such a pushover. And considering that I am one myself, this is saying something. I mean, why is he so easily persuaded that he doesn't love Jane? If he was my future husband, I'd give him a good spanking. :P. And he's so HAPPY, all the TIME. I mean, wouldn't that peppiness get annoying?

No, I'm not PMS. :) Mr Bingley is my pet peeve.

Love y'all.

'Do you think Charlotte Lucas was straight or a lesbian?'

I did originally post this as a comment but I may as well post it here as an answer to the question. Its short and not very well thought out, but here it is:

I know it just seems like a silly, immature topic, but I think it's fairly valid. Charlotte doesn't place a lot of value on marriage, and gets married to Mr Collins as just a means to get a stable life. She, unlike the other girls in the book, did not even consider that marriage should be for love, and was willing to put up with a completely insufferable man. Conversely, she was devoted to Elizabeth, and loved her in a way she would never love her husband. At the time, homosexuality would have been abhorred, so if she was romantically inclined towards her friend, she would have had to suppress it. However, Austen was, in her own way, a feminist, even though she has a bad reputation for writing novels centred around marriage. It wouldn't seem out of place at all for a lesbian to feature in her books, even if it was subtle, an in joke of sorts. Opinions?

Time to get serious

So I'm assuming we've all read pride and prejudice by now. So here are some questions for us all to think about. You can pick one, or a few, or all of them and post a blog explaining your answers.

• Jane Austen's original title for P&P was 'First Impressions'. Do you think this title would have suited the novel better? why? What role do first impressions play in the novel?
• Would you say that Mr Bennet is a positive or negative character? Explain.
• How important is dialogue to character development?
• How important is social class in the novel, especially concerning Lizzy and Mr Darcy?
• Pride and Prejudice is a novel about women who feel they have to marry in order to be happy. Taking Charlotte Lucas as an example, do you think Austen is making a social criticism of her era's veiw of marriage?
• Was Charlotte Lucas a lesbian or straight? What makes you think this?

Tada, have fun. Everyone has to write a blog about one or more of these topics, (feel free to add any others you may think of), sometime within the next week or so. Have fun :D

Oh my gawsh it's like we all died or something. Hello? People?

I'm going to assume the best and say that everyone is obviously too engrossed in Pride and Prejudice to realise that this blog has pretty much fallen off the face of the earth. If not, Louise, your last post scared everyone away.

Things I never thought I'd do

1. Batt my eyelashes for a full two minutes.

2. Wake up on a boat in Ha long Bay

3.Laugh while reading Pride and Prejudice

its good stuff :)

mr bennett is golden :)

PS. why is this whole thing underlined? I cant get it to go away!

Things I never thought I would do

1. Batt my eyelashes for a full two minutes.

2. Wake up on a boat in Ha long Bay

3.Laugh while reading Pride and Prejudice

its good stuff :)

mr bennett is golden :)