In the mix of things showing up on my feed- Peach Cobbler with ice cream. I am watering my Peach Trees hopeful of baking a Peach Cobbler just like this one. The tree with the smaller peaches is doing well and has quite a few peaches on it. None ripe as yet. The other tree has 3 peaches total. One year it produced One Peach. Which was perfect and quite quite delicious.
Right now I have a Peach Raspberry Pie in the fridge- a gift from a neighbor. So...we'll be eating that. But no ice cream- not enough room in the freezer. It's full of frozen vegetables and Chinese dumplings.
Today's book is Lydia Bennet's Story- by Jane Odiwe. So far the author of this book is trying very hard to make Lydia someone we might "like". In the previous Austen-ish book- the Pursuit of Mary Bennet-- that author had Lydia giving birth (unwed) and Kitty and Lydia making Mary's life a nightmare. Lydia ended up on a ship heading to America with the father of her baby- not Wickham.
At this point in THIS book- Lizzy and Jane are as yet unmarried and Lydia thinks Lizzy will marry Wickham. I had to stop reading as I was getting quite dizzy trying to keep track of several crazy story lines including the girls undressing a soldier and then dressing that soldier up in women's clothing to pretend he is his own sister. I might need to make a chart. Not sure I have a large enough sheet of paper. I confess to not remembering if I ever read Pride and Prejudice. Sigh.
Reading this book seems like WORK. I mean if the Reader needs a CHART to keep plot lines straight......I will be sure to let you know what happens.... tomorrow. I had a Romaine sandwich for lunch.
I feel the need for a large tub of dark chocolate covered caramels. But a slice of pie is okay as well.
Some books are worth a chart. Others not. I remember when I started reading the Game of Thrones series and complained about keeping track of all those characters, my older son said not to worry, chances are they’d be dead by book’s end. Needless to say, I abandoned the reading effort and just watched the series.
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