A Jane Austen Encounter by Donna Fletcher Crow -- Book Review #AusteninAugustLGR

English professors Elizabeth and Richard are celebrating their 20th anniversary by visiting Jane Austen’s old stomping grounds. From Bath to Hampshire to Steventon and more, this couple has planned the dream vacation. But, when some old papers are donated to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, Richard ends up helping go through them and begins what will become a multiple-victim mystery, complete with a search for a missing Austen manuscript. 

Before I even began reading this book, I wrote this in my notes: "I haven't even opened the book yet and I'm excited! I just took a Jane Austen-themed tour this past September to all the places mentioned in the back cover description. I am so looking forward to reading this!"

I absolutely adored this book---totally was not disappointed! The author has obviously spent time in the places she's describing. The Jane Austen Centre tea room---oh, I can just see it! She mentioned so many things I just loved about England. The performers in the courtyard and Holy Communion at Bath Abbey, the beautiful assembly rooms, Chawton Cottage---I followed her every step of the way!  One line in the book said, "Jane never wrote about a place she did not know personally." This story completely came alive for me because I do know these places personally!

The writing style is simple and sweet. My favorite line from Elizabeth: "Logic can be such an inconvenient thing." Love it!

I'm definitely looking forward to reading the other two in this series, as well as looking into the archaeological dig at Steventon---the only place mentioned in the story that I didn't visit.

Thanks so much to Donna Fletcher Crow for the complimentary review copy. My daughter is enjoying it now, and then it will go into our personal collection.

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Our family loves Walgreens for all things pharmacy, but there's so much more to this store than just medications. Walgreens also has a great variety of grocery items, making it a one-stop shop---especially nice on a Sunday afternoon. Just after dinner yesterday, I headed out to Walgreens to take advantage of some their paperless coupon deals. I had no idea how glad I would be today that I grabbed some of the soup that was on sale!

I had just put the Walgreens app on my phone the day before and synced it up to my Walgreens Balance Rewards card. I played around with it for awhile, virtually clipping coupons that I might want to redeem. As I scrolled through the list of available coupon deals in every category, I just hit "clip to card" and the deal would be automatically added to my rewards card.

There were several varieties of soup on sale and using the coupon made the price even lower. I grabbed some chicken noodle because it's one of our family's favorites. It's important to me to stock up on items that we use regularly whenever I find a good price. If I do this with all our regular items, I build a nice backup for times when I can't get out to the store.

Turns out, I would need this soup much sooner than anticipated! Poor Elisha woke up in the night very sick---and was sick all through this afternoon. He spent a lot of time on the couch looking miserable.

Late this afternoon, Elisha felt like eating something, so I prepared the soup for him and served it in this cute vintage soup bowl I found at an antique mall.

I was so thankful for the extra couple minutes I took to clip the coupon and grab the soup yesterday. I had just what he needed to help him feel better---and that's not the first time Walgreens has helped me out with that.

Look at this happy boy up and feeling better! If you'd like to try out the app, just download it to your phone, follow instructions to sync it to your card, and then scroll through to clip the coupons you want to use---no scissors required! Once you're at the checkout, scan your phone or rewards card, or enter your phone number, and the coupons will be deducted from your total and deleted from your card.

Have you tried the Walgreens app? Let me know in the comments below!

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