Coming here to write my review and The Library Extension pops up with the audio in Hoopla! I could have listened to this rather than reading it with my eyes (I have so much more ear time than eye time!) Oh well. I made more notes and highlights reading it myself, although I don't have my usual access (having borrowed on KU, and my KU expired but I still have the book as long as I don't close it on my Kindle, but I usually work from my computer screen, cut&paste portions from the KindleNotes). 

Other than a HUGE change at the beginning of the book, much of this still happened very traditionally. Mr. Bennett comes of very badly in this book (not the first time). Having inherited a fortune, but keeping it to himself, leaving the ladies to worry what would happen to them upon his death. And then, what a funny joke. Jane and Elizabeth appreciate the wealth, but not how their father handled it. They actually own Netherfield, and her father's agent was the one who leased it to Bingley. There's a house in London and a cottage by the sea.  The girls don't flaunt their newfound wealth (Darcy is slow to learn of it) but word does get out.

I was really enjoying this. Seeing Jane as so strong, and making changes that improved everyone, even Elizabeth. Marked change in Mrs. Bennett as well. Lydia is still Lydia (a little improved but still ...)  I think that was part of the problem with the ending ... it felt too familiar to one I read recently [book:Faults of Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation|58349721]. When it devolves into attempted murder and an action ending ... you lose me a little.

Reading this myself, there were many of the British spellings (connexions, manoeuvre, fibre, practising, neighbourhood, analysing, recognised) ... I recall the "Author's Note" (not this author, can't remember who) that went viral, gently reminding readers that American ways/spellings are NOT world-wide (and gave a bunch of Zzzzzzzzzzz to appease the reader from the start). Other words I note: roiling, careening, rifling (kind of thought it would have been riffling, through piano music, rifling is more violent). Other less common words: supercilious, vociferated, panegyric, indubitably, celerity, remonstrating, obsequious ...

I found some typos and errors (which I figure I wouldn't have noticed in audio, I'm assuming the narrator would catch them?) "In additional to the lessons ..." should it just be "in addition to the lessons?  Elizabeth challenge Kitty and Lydia (should be challengED), has when it should be was (I just checked the audio here, the narrator caught and corrected that one) ... also at one point it said the SIX DAUGHTERS ... later, the six Bennett ladies, which is fine to include mama, but the earlier one is wrong (and still stated in the narration). 

Highlights -
It is best to begin as you mean to go on.
Wishes are rather worthless, are they not?
What was the lady thinking, not producing a son?
"I will not be contradicted!"
A handsome face and charming manners do not always a good man make.

"allow his wife to ramble about the estate to her heart's content, indulging in frivolity and fun, reading novels..."

She could not have appeared more stricken if I had slapped her right across the face.
*** sometimes men think "I don't hit women" but words/actions can feel the same :(

"more trivial possessions such as his books" -- Elizabeth flinched at such treasured objects being so slandered. 

She released the breath she was not aware she had been holding.
Forcing a calm she did not feel, Elizabeth took a measured breath.
It was a dream she had not even known she had dreamt ...


Mr. Bennet ....
"he had been kind and indulgent to her, but only so far as her interests aligned with his"
"a man who has not a care for his wife's feelings and can treat her greatest worries and fears as a joke"