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Pride and Prejudice (BBC TV Series)

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 Hello everyone! I am so sorry I didn't post for a few weeks it has been quite busy for me, especially with the dance competition season starting. Anyway I am super excited about this post!  I recently did a post on "Pride and Prejudice" the novel, but today I want to post about the BBC series. I absolutely love this show as it is probably one of the best remakes of a book that I have ever seen. The series is 6 hours long, and I think this is why it is so good. It doesn't rush, but it takes its time. Below are 3 reasons why I love this series so much. (FYI I haven't seen any other remakes of Pride and Prejudice so I won't say that this one is better than them. However I am pretty sure that it is. 😂)  1. It is so close to the book!  This series is incredibly close to the book! Did I mention how close it is to the book? The script seems to have been taken straight from the book. And I admire this because it shows that the writers just really appreciated the

Emily of New Moon

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 Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery is a really great book that I think is great for kids. If you recognise the author's name, that is because she was also the author of Anne of Green Gables. Not many people know that she wrote the Emily series, but in my opinion I actually like it better than the Anne of Green Gables series. There are three books in the Emily series, but today I would like to focus on the first one.  Emily of New Moon is about a girl named Emily who is orphaned and sent away to live with her Aunt's and Cousin in a house called New Moon. Her mother was a Murray, and the Murray family was one of the greatest families and the richest at that time. Her mother had eloped with her father, and therefore her family never talked to her afterwards, but because of the Murray Pride, they took in Emily when her father died. Emily is a very imaginative girl, and when her father died she would write letters to him and tell him about everything that was happening to he