One way the brain accomplishes this is to strengthen synapses among neurons that fire together during an event. The writing was good overall (notwithstanding those unfortunate anachronisms), and I enjoyed the charactarizations, surprising as some of them ended up being. But even with marriage attained, you then faced the much more daunting prospect of dying in childbirth (a significant risk at that time). The Mary we read here is the heroine of fan-fiction, smarter than everyone around her, more observant, more pitiable, but finally rewarded beyond anyone else in the story, in a way that cheapens characters whose moral convictions were so strongly a part of what made them attractive. The plaque gives a brief account of the ships history, while the weathervane depicts her in silhouette.

My favorite part of the story is when Mary seems to be "modernized" and more independent and seeks her own path.

But, what we are not going to do is decimate the cornerstone characters of, arguably, the best loved novel in history, so you can turn your “Mary B” into something even she seemed uncomfortable being!

Part two goes down a very twisted and terrible path which completely and utterly detaches from everything the Austen fan loves about this famous classic. If Jane Austen were to read any chosen excerpt from this book, she would not roll over in her grave. I graded it down a star for that crummy first third, but it ended up being a pretty darned good read. I think our author is on a quest to see how many ways thing can go really-really-terribly WRONG in Austen’s universe.

I, too, hoped quietly for romance and also for marriage as much as any of my sisters did,” she insists. I don't want to give away some shocking details about the fate of some of the Bennet sisters but suffice it to say that things take a dark and dramatic turn, which will leave some readers shocked after the hopeful and positive ending for the beloved characters of Austen's classic.

Pride and Prejudice” has been reimagined countless times, its characters transformed into everything from sexpots to zombies. The stillbirth was indeed tragic (and I would personally have appreciated a warning as I would never have requested the book had I known about it) but Elizabeth is so altered to be unrecognizable, both before and after the event. To be honest, I enjoyed the first 1/3 of the book, even though the characters weren’t quite what Jane Austen wrote, I considered it like the retelling from Mary’s perspective, and recognized she may have a different view than the person who wrote Pride and Prejudice and loved Lizzy.Britain had declared the Bay of Biscay to be an "exclusion zone"; their objective was to prevent supplies from reaching Germany, in particular Japanese exports. Their guns were concealed, when a U-boat approached, a "panic party" would abandon the ship, while the gun crews waited for their target to come into range. It reminds me of stories where D is portrayed with more accuracy in regards to his treatment of women, servants, etc. I hate not finishing a story but I may do myself harm if I continue with this depressing dark story. Mitchell left Dublin for the last time on 13 December 1944; she was bound for Cumberland with a cargo of burnt-ore.