Woe is Me

The flus and colds have been going around and coming around and it did finally find me. Friday night I came home with a fever and a cough that started instantly that day and carried on through the weekend and today. I'm home from work on the couch for the third day and trying not to do anything that will start my coughing fits, such as getting up and walking. As long as I sit and don't talk, I'm good. How boring eh?

Happily, I just bought the last book in the "Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman" series and have been glued to it's pages, and so it has distracted me perfectly from my condition. These are the best books! Last I mentioned them here, I was on the second book: "Duty and Desire" It was a good book but the first and last are masterpieces in my opinion. This last one is called, "These Three Remain" and I'll remind you all that the first one is called, "An Assembly Such as This."

Pamela Aidan writes beautifully and seems to keep amazing accuracy to the original spirit of jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." These books delve into the mind of Mr. Darcy, the mysterious, in such a convincing way that keeps loyal to what I have always thought to be the Darcy way. Plus she adds some characters into Darcy's life who we would never see in P&P. Some characters introduced are Darcy's valet, and his friend Dy Brougham, from his university days. These addtions don't change the story, but just add insight to Darcy's life and social circle during those times when he's absent from Elizabeth. In addtion, the books add substance to Georgiana's character and also his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam. If you are a die-hard Pride and Prejudice fan, like so many of us out there, these books are a must read!!