Hello Everyone! :) I have been wanting to post this for a pretty long time! :)

Well, I few weeks ago on Tuesday, July 8th my mom, my sister Hope, and I went to a Jane Austen event at our library called Simply Jane! It was SO much fun!  We watched a biography on her and also had light refreshments and tea. :) It was very fancy and very fun too! ;) As most of you know, Jane Austen is the Author of Pride and Prejudice and she has written 5 other books as well. We were given the book "Emma" to read and this coming Tuesday we get to see the movie! :) It is kind of like a book club because the next time we meet after the movie which is on August 12th we will discuss Emma and take home Persuasion. Here is our Jane Austen Discussion Group Calendar:

July 8, watch A&E biography, take home Emma

July 18, Jane Austen dies in 1817

July 22, watch Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow

Aug 12, discuss Emma, take home Persuasion

Aug 26, watch Persuasion, starring Ciaran Hinds

Sept 9, discuss Persuasion, take home Pride and Prejudice

Sept 23, watch Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway

Oct 14, discuss Pride and Predjudice, take home Northanger Abbey

Oct 28, watch Northanger Abbey

Nov 11, discuss Northanger Abbey, take home Sense and Sensibility

Nov 18, watch Sense and Sensibility starring Emma Thompson

Dec 9, discuss Sense and Sensibility

(Dec 16, Jane Austen born in 1775)

It was So much fun the last time that I think that they will all be fun! I don't know how many we will be able to do, but I hope we get to go to many of them!

I didn't know much at all about Jane Austen before we went, but after I watched the biography I knew a lot more than I did before. My mom, sister, and I have been reading Emma out loud together. I have really enjoyed what we have read so far!  Jane Austen is such a neat writer! I also love the time peroid that she was in and wrote as the setting. :)

Here are 2 pictures. One of Hope and I at our table, and the second one of the refreshments! :)

 I loved the refreshments! I tried scones for the first time and I love them! :)  ( The scones are the things in the picture that look like sugar cookies) I also drank Earl Grey tea which tasted really good. :) I felt very English. :)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! :) Have any of you read any of the books by Jane Austen? If so, please let me know! Also, if you have read Emma, please let me know how you liked it! :)

I hope everyone has a Wonderful and blessed day! :)

Ps~ Tomorrow after church we are leaving to go to my Uncle Eric's and Aunt Lisa's house!!! I can't wait to see my cousins! We are staying tomorrow, Monday, and I think we are leaving Tuesday. I am Really Excited! :)