If I weren't already repped, you'd be getting a query from me. ❤️

I was so excited to see that you've started on this bold new venture! Perfect fit. ❤️

Had this reaction just yesterday, I'm guessing to the same writer. I love him anyway, but damn.

Mission accepted.

This flash has convinced me that I'm going to have to check it out. I'm missing out!

This is really fucking great ❤️

(...but also, if you ever do Jane Eyre, I really want in.)

It's crazy how few people remember the retractable gym floor over the swimming pool in It's a Wonderful Life. I've talked to so many people who swear I'm making it up when I mention it.

I'm really not trying to be insufferable I swear!

There are so many great Bronte facts--such a wild family! (Possibly my favorite: Emily once stitched her own hand together by their family fire after she was mauled by a dog because she didn't trust the doctor.) Anne is def the least fun/interesting. Poor Anne.

Ha! I could have put my very rusty Austen knowledge on full display!

(Sorry--I was totally nerding out during today's podcast.)

On a totally different note, one cool irony of Austen novels is that they're so often thought of as "happily ever after" marriage books because of the central plot line, but almost always, every other marriage in the book is unhappy to some degree or other.

The whole thing about a man inheriting was a holdover from feudalism with the expectation that, if the monarch needed to call his people back into battle, that those being called were dudes. (It's been a while, & I might not have that entirely right, but I think I'm not far off.)

I think Mike mentioned the difficulty of understanding English property laws a couple times. I don't know if this helps, but they varied based on the estates. If I remember correctly, "entailed" estates had often been passed down since William the Conqueror & others distributed them to their knights