Charlotte becomes immersed in Colonel Andrews’ tales of murder and ghosts, especially when she finds a secret room, which may or may not have been hiding a body. While she bonds easily with her pretend brother, she finds herself nervous under the watchful gaze of the brooding Mr. With her two children spending the month with her ex and his mistress-turned-new-wife, Charlotte decides she’d like nothing better than to step into an Austen novel and make herself its heroine.Īt Pembrook Park, she becomes Charlotte Cordial, the widowed sister of the handsome and charming Edmund Grey. Charlotte Kinder still feels blindsided by her husband’s infidelity and their subsequent divorce, and in the midst of her friends setting her up on disastrous blind dates, she discovers the novels of Jane Austen. Shannon Hale’s Midnight in Austenland is the follow-up to Austenland, once again set at Pembrook Park in Kent, England - an exclusive vacation destination where guests adopt the manners, customs, and wardrobes of Regency England and experience a little romance with actors whose characters are reminiscent of the heroes from Jane Austen’s novels. She felt certain she was not in too much danger. It was okay to fall in love inside books and stories, and where was she if not inside a story? And wasn’t this why she’d come, after all? She felt certain she would be able to withdraw herself intact when the time came. And decided it was okay to let her heart flit and flutter around, and for her breath to get caught in her chest like the ghost’s flowing headdress on a shrub.
Be safe, stay healthy, and enjoy.She sighed. And today, the 17th anniversary of the day I started writing Twilight, we’ll post the first. From now until the Midnight Sun release on August 4th, every Tuesday and Friday we’ll be posting a quote from the book. It also provides election Covid-19 information and a handy election protection guide.ĭeep breath. allows you to check your registration status, register to vote, and request absentee ballots. It details helpful ways to safely support protests right now. The Cut has a very informative article called How to Support the Struggle Against Police Brutality.
The Obama Foundation is a wonderful resource for education on police violence and antiracism, ways to take action, and information on organizations that encourage reform. If you are looking for resources on education, advocacy, places to donate, or ways to help, please check out some of the links below. We can affect change in our homes and our communities. Life feels pretty grim, but there are things we can do. The important thing is that you and your families are safe-that everyone is safe. I promised you a bit of fun today, and I’ll keep that promise, though it seems a very trivial thing right now. *** This post was meant to go up yesterday, but out of respect for Blackout Tuesday, we held it for today***
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