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Why yes Elizabeth, private balls are pleasanter than public ones.

In the 1800s, if you were cute, you would not be doubted on anything.

Wow, once Collins arrives Austen goes off the rails with her writing. Sentences run on forever, descriptions and narrative range from abstract to impenetrable and everyone seems to communicate solely through gestures, no one talks,

Oh. My. God! What the F*&% us Mr. Collins even talking about?!

So...is the narrator super snarly or is it just me?

Wait. We are told Darcy has the hots for Lizzy?! I find this story much more interesting when that's a surprise (like in most adaptations). Now it's even more boring!

What horrible plague does Jane have? It sounded like a cold but she has been infirmed at Netherfield for weeks (or hours, time means nothing in this book). No one wants to move her, but no one aside from Lizzy is even risking their health by seeing her which ruins Mrs. Bennett's sociopathic sex-slavery endgame anyway. What gives?

Have begun highlighting particularly cumbersome passages for later use in pummeling someone or something. Seems an acceptable choice.

Kind of hate Mrs. Bennett...

Oh lord what a headache I already have from the overwrought language in this book. Speaking of, when is "To-morrow fortnight"? Is that 2 weeks from tomorrow? Starting tomorrow and lasting 2 weeks? I would not have flourished in the 1800s