Rainy Days With Amanda

 Hey Ya'll! My husband and I are back from another trip and not just any trip, but our babymoon! Yes, I am one of those people who took a trip and called it a babymoon. To be honest, this is probably our last trip for a while, which kind of makes me sad but at the same time, I'm excited for future trips with our baby girl. So on today's blog post, I really just want to talk a bit about Laguna and traveling as a preggo person in general. Laguna Beach, California The Laguna Beach area sits in between LA and San Diego and is part of Orange County. Some may say, why Laguna? Well, I knew that at this point in my pregnancy, I wanted somewhere that was lowkey, but still popping, somewhere with a nice beach, and I wanted the whole trip to not break the bank. Laguna happened to tick all those boxes. The Laguna beach area is comprised of a bunch of different suburban cities, so there is a great many things to do while you're in town. While we were here, we did do a few things. Wh...

 So, I've been reading this fan fic and it takes place in the Victorian era. I am not the biggest fan of reading materials from this era but I ended up loving it and now I read other fics that are set int he Victorian era. Anyway, one day the author of the main Victorian-era fic that I read posted in her comments that she was inspired by the book Persuasion , thus I put it on my Goodreads list to read and here we are. Here's my book talk blog on Persuasion by Jane Austen.    About the Author  Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary...