You probably can’t call yourself a book nerd if this article from The Toast doesn’t make you laugh. Here are a few signs you are living out a Jane Austen plot:
- Someone disagreeable is trying to persuade you to take a trip to Bath.
- Someone disagreeable is trying to persuade you to join a game of cards.
- A picnic has gone horribly wrong.
- Someone you know has fallen ill. Not melodramatically ill, just interestingly so.
- A charming man attempts to flirt with you. This is terrible.
- Your mother is dead or ridiculous.
- You are in a garden, and you are astonished.
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Someone disagreeable once tried to persuade me to take a bath with him but I’ve never been to Bath. However, all the other items apply & this explains some of my looking glass adventures – I’m living in a Jane Austen novel.
Reblogged this on Gabrielle Christian and commented:
True, it is funny when one point of those things happens!!!