Colonel Brandon Level 101-199 Books

[Debbie]

Love your list, Lenora! Well done, indeed!

[Kirk]

Lenora wrote: "101 Elizabeth Bennet's Wedding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation 4
102 Waking Revelations, a Pride & Prejudice One-Shot 4
103 [book:Her Final Wish: A Pride and Prejud..."
Fantastic!!!

[Sheila]

113.) The Best Laid Flight Plans: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Variation 4 stars

[Debbie]

Been a busy 10 days of reading since I last posted:

105. Echo from the Past: A Darcy and Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice Variation - 4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

106. When Mary Met the Colonel: A Pride and Prejudice Novella - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

107. Phi Alpha Pi - 2.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

108. Georgia Darcy: A Venetian Romance: A Contemporary Pride and Prejudice Variation Novella - 2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

109. The Best Laid Flight Plans: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Variation - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

110. Hypothetically Married: A Pride and Prejudice Variation 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

111. The Immovable Mr. Tanner: A Pride & Prejudice Variation - 4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

112. The Darcy Contradiction - 1 star
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

113. Pemberley: Mr. Darcy's Dragon (re-read) - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

114. Longbourn: Dragon Entail: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (re-read) - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

115. Netherfield: Rogue Dragon: A Pride and Prejudice Variation - 5+++++ stars!!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kirk]

Debbie wrote: "Been a busy 10 days of reading since I last posted:

105. Echo from the Past: A Darcy and Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice Variation - 4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2..."

Awesome!!

[Kirk]

Sheila wrote: "113.) The Best Laid Flight Plans: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Variation 4 stars"
Great!

[J. W.]

Excellent Debbie...

[Sheila]

114.) London Holiday 5 stars

[Sophia]

Shazam, Debbie! You read a good pile there.

And neat seeing Sheila finishing off a few more, too.

[Sheila]

Thank you, Sophia.

[Sheila]

115.) Teachings of His Father: A Pride and Prejudice Variation 3.5 stars

[Sheila]

116.) Lost & Found: A Pride & Prejudice Novella 5 stars

[Debbie]

You and I are definitely neck-and-neck, Sheila. Although, since this ISN'T a race, perhaps I should amend that to say we're a pair of well-matched grays!

[Sheila]

I like that - "well-matched grays"...but I have not really paid any attention to others' numbers, except when they are so high as Kirk's are! It is not a race as you said and I have four started which I put down to read when others grabbed my attention. Yesterday I went back and forth between two and then picked up that Christie Capps' book just before I went to bed. It was short enough that I didn't stay up too late finishing it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I saw you read it three times. It is worth a reread.

[Debbie]

No, just finished reading it for the second time. You know how GR sometimes adds an extra "read" or two unless you're careful about how you post it! I'd gone straight from finishing it the first time to starting Maria Grace's trilogy without writing a review first. Since it IS so short, I decided a re-read would be an enjoyable way to make sure my review is accurate!

[J. W.]

Debbie when you go to post your review you can remove the extra date... it should show up at the bottom when you post.

[Debbie]

Just did. Not the review but the extra read. I don't always notice when the extra gets tacked on, but I delete it as soon as I do. Got a music rehearsal soon, so I'll work on the review when I get home from that.

[J. W.]

Good luck with the rehearsal.

[Debbie]

Easy, fun stuff. Doo wop. Reviewing a bunch and starting a couple of new (for us) ones. No shows for a few weeks, so this'll be a very low-key practice. Although Memorial Day weekend we'll perform 3 times in 4 days. I'm more worried about my old hip making it through than the music!!

[J. W.]

I was wondering how you were doing.

[Debbie]

Brand new hip on the left is GREAT! Stronger all the time, though still a little weaker than the right. I got an injection on the right in November that worked great, but now it's really painful and its range of motion is more limited than on the replaced side. Surgery to replace the right is set for July 9. Here we go again!!

[Abigail]

So glad you’ve gotten to the reward stage of your surgery, Debbie! I imagine it makes it easier to face the next one. I’ll wish you an equally good outcome on the right hip now, since my back surgery is June 6 and 7 and I don’t expect to be much on the computer for the first month or so.

[J. W.]

We'll need a new moniker for you... Bionic Debbie. Naw... that just doesn't work. Oh well. So glad you are better and will soon be even better for the other side.

[Debbie]

Abigail, believe it or not, I'm more reluctant about the right only because now I've EXPERIENCED all the pain and after-effects of the surgery. I've likened it to Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid. (My husband is fascinated by the whole survival in the wilderness thing.) Within the first day or two, the participants invariably say, "This is harder than it looks on TV!" Knowing what I'd be going through was NOT the same thing as the experience of actually going through it.

Having said that, of course I'm thrilled with the results now 8 weeks later, and of course I'll be getting the other side done. I'm just not as eager about it as I was for the first one!!

Best wishes for your back surgery, Abigail. I'm sure you've got the best doctors you could find to work on you. Will have you in my thoughts at that time, for sure.

Thanks for the good wishes, Jeanne!

[J. W.]

We'll be thinking about you too Abigail... you'll be in our prayers.

[Sheila]

My best wishes for both of you...no fun getting old. One of my favorite sayings is, "Now that I've got my mind together, my body is falling apart." Prayers will be said.

[Sophia]

Add my 'all the best' to Abigail and Debbie to the others. I would be scared out of my skull of the pain and complications and just plain old helplessness that comes with surgery, Debbie and Abigail, so I don't blame you there.

[Sheila]

117.) Superior is as Superior Does 4 stars
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12336661...

[Abigail]

Thank you, everyone, for your kind wishes! It’s going to be a rough go—two days of surgery, back (so to speak) to back. They say the pain is horrible at first, but “reassure” me that they have an entire team of pain management specialists. Off to join the opioid army! [Temporarily, I hope.] And I’ll be an inch taller at the end.

[Debbie]

Yep. Pain management will be a major element early on. Yay for being taller, though!

[Sheila]

I was wondering about the 2 days as I marked your operations on my calendar. Yours, too, Debbie.

[Sheila]

118.) Netherfield Park Is Let at Last: A Pride and Prejudice Novella 4 stars

[Kirk]

Abigail wrote: "Thank you, everyone, for your kind wishes! It’s going to be a rough go—two days of surgery, back (so to speak) to back. They say the pain is horrible at first, but “reassure” me that they have an e..."
Wishing you a speedy recovery!

[Kirk]

Debbie wrote: "Abigail, believe it or not, I'm more reluctant about the right only because now I've EXPERIENCED all the pain and after-effects of the surgery. I've likened it to Discovery Channel's Naked and Afra..."
Wishing you such good luck on a speedy recovery... round two!

[Anji]

Best wishes to you both for your respective surgeries, Abigail and Debbie. You know that we'll all be sending you as much love and support as you need xxx!

[Mary]

Debbie,Abigail,hope both your surgeries go according to plan,with no complications and a fast recovery time.

[Debbie]

You are all such lovely friends! Thank you!! 😘

[Marlene]

Debbie & Abagail, I've said a prayer for you both. Please do keep us updated if possible. We all care about you both. Abagail, do you have coverage for your sweetie?

[Teresa]

Abigail and Debbie the candles are lighting and the Novenas are on the go. Best of luck to both of you. Will be thinking of you.

[Debbie]

Guys, you should focus current prayers and good thoughts on Abigail for now, since her surgery is a little less than a month away while mine is a full two months from now!

[Debbie]

Got a few more to add to my stack:

116. The Last Miss Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation - 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

117. London Holiday - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

118. Lost & Found: A Pride & Prejudice Novella - 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

119. An Incident at the Royal Rest Inn by leavesfallingup - 4 stars
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12875791/1/
Elizabeth Bennet and Caroline Bingley switched at birth! Loved the basic story. However, I felt that the political situation with Bretagne/Brittany needlessly confused the plot. Considering the royal British blood that's uncovered, I didn't see the point of adding the French royalty into Elizabeth's ancestry. The author obviously enjoys historical research, but it just muddied up an already very complex plot. There are also a few "okays" in there. It's unpublished, so I know it's unpolished, but that seems like too obvious a blunder not to mention. But it's a reasonable length and a whopping good tale, even if Caroline and Lydia make a rather unbelievable turnaround at the end.

120. Deception & Debauchery: A Pride and Prejudice Variation - 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[J. W.]

Debbie I agree about you #119... that one fell apart quickly. It had such potential I was really disappointed as I liked the basic story.

[Sheila]

Debbie wrote: "Got a few more to add to my stack:

116. The Last Miss Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation - 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

117. [book:London Holiday|..."

Fantastic progress, Debbie.

[J. W.]

Posting:


132. [Reread] [Unpub] Elizabeth Bennet’s Wager: new epilogue: WadeH: 4-stars
133. [Reread] [Unpub] Rumors: Withered: 3-stars https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12175858...
134. Netherfiled: Rogue Dragon: Maria Grace: 5-stars
135. London Holiday: Nicole Clarkston: 5-stars
136. Superior is as Superior Does: queeronion: 4-stars
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12336661...
137. Lost & Found: Christie Capps: 5-stars

[Sheila]

Wow, look at you go...well done. Some excellent reads there. Glad you enjoyed so many of those.

[Kirk]

J. W. wrote: "Posting:


132. [Reread] [Unpub] Elizabeth Bennet’s Wager: new epilogue: WadeH: 4-stars
133. [Reread] [Unpub] Rumors: Withered: 3-stars https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12175858...
134. Netherfi..."
Great!

[J. W.]

Thanks Sheila & Kirk.

[Debbie]

WadeH added more to Elizabeth Bennet's wager? Hmmmm... guess I need to check it out. Nice list of reads, Jeanne!

[J. W.]

Thanks Debbie... yes, WadeH added another epilogue.

[Sophia]

Look at you gals go! Love seeing London Holiday getting such great reviews.