Surely you didn't think we'd let a season of Bridgerton pass us by without talking about it? In case we didn't have enough to say, we brought friend of the pod Liz back to join in our fun about the latest from Netflix's "Bridgerton" and talk about the latest season versus the book. (But mostly we just talk about the hot sexual tension.)  Plus we chat a little about the latest season of Masterpiece Theater's "Sanditon." Join us next time for the final chapters of Mansfield Park!  Talk to us! We’d love to hear from you. thedailyknightley.com Twitter: @knightleypod Instagram: @thedail ..read more

What's that? Did you say something? It turns out you did! And it was a lot of really good something! Jessie and Annie dust off the excellent emails we've been getting during the Mansfield Park read and laugh, cry, have some thoughts, even maybe admit they might be a little, tiny, barely wrong about Mary.   MENTIONS  Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy Rachel Lynn Solomon's Weather Girl Sue Lynn Tan's Daughter of the Moon Goddess Olivia Dade's All the Feels Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language   Join u ..read more

Have you heard the old adage "you can't go home?" Well, Fanny knows it now, too. Fanny finally makes it back to her biological family, and if you're expecting a loving, fairytale reunion, for our soft heroine, well, what book have you been reading?    MENTIONS  Tessa Bailey's Window Shopping Brigid Kemmerer's Defy the Night Kerri Maniscalco's Kingdom of the Cursed Rosanne A. Brown's A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Erin Morgenstern's A Starless Sea Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred ..read more

That whole loving Henry thing, that was nice while it lasted, huh? Join Jessie and Annie as they quickly re-litigate everything they thought they felt and believed last episode as Henry vies for Fanny's hand with a little assist from... all of Mansfield Park.   MENTIONS  Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow Oliver Sach's An Anthropologist on Mars Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes Erin Morganstern's The Night Circus Katee Roberts' Neon Gods Axie Oh's XOXO   Join us next time for chapters 36-40 of Mansfield Park!  Talk to us! We ..read more

Ahhh, we're back, and it didn't take that long for Jessie and Annie to have... a change of heart about Mr Henry Crawford, did it? Buckle up, because we've got a proposal in store for you, and your humble servant/hosts have a lot to process. Loudly.    MENTIONS  Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue Alison Cochrun's The Charm Offensive Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Ace of Spades John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed Kate Hope Day's In the Quick Mia Manansala's Adobo and Arsenic Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish Deborah Wiles' Kent State Fred Rogers' Life's Jo ..read more

Turns out Maria is driven by spite, and we are here for it. Edmund and Mary are still making eyes. And Henry is back to ruin lives with his change of heart. What is Fanny to do? MENTIONS Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone Trilogy and Six of Crows Duology Yumi Sakugawa's Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe Maco's Aloha Rosie Danan's The Roommate and The Intimacy Experiment Michael Ian Black's I'm Bored, I'm Worried, and I'm Sad* J. R. R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings Join us next time for chapters 26-30 of Mansfield Park! Talk to us! We’d love to hear from you. theda ..read more

Uh oh, Sir Thomas has returned to Mansfield Park, and the kids have some 'splainin' to do. Annie and Jessie cover the drama on and off the stage as love triangles (and squares) continue to shenaniganize. MENTIONS Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Nnedi Okorafo's Home (Binti #2) Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown Cressida Cowell's How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (How to Train Your Dragon #9) Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems Rachel Vorona Cote's Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop (provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest, unbias ..read more

Oh, boy, let's talk DRAMA. Our Mansfield crew has decided that putting on a private play would be a most gripping diversion, despite Edmund's disapproval. Nothing like throwing a group project onto a situation rife with entitlement, sexual tension, and love triangles to make life easier. Jessie and Annie dive in, trying to decide if they even like their main protagonists and wtf is up with Mary Crawford? MENTIONS Angie Thomas's Concrete Rose and The Hate U Give Dana L Davis's Roman and Jewel Mackenzi Lee's A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy Stephen Fry's Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagine ..read more

WHEW, more love triangles than a geometrist can handle! Jessie and Annie return to Mansfield Park and try to sort out all the crisscrossing connections, talk about the unkosher way the others talk about Fanny's physical abilities, whether Rushforth should be sympathized, and why Mary Crawford is no Caroline Bingley. Also, Henry Crawford: Is he cute or is he tall and white? Mild CW: For discussion on sexual consent while we talk about "Brigerton" on our book/media roundup (which we loved but are not blind to its flaws): "Why Brigerton Is Problematic || Colorism, Race Baiting and Implicit Bias ..read more

Y'all, all the pieces are going on the board, and we are settling in for the long game now. Jessie and Annie read Mansfield Park for the first time, starting with the first five chapters, and is it juicy already! So many people! Nuance! What's going to happen? We don't know, and it's GREAT. MENTIONS Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone trilogy  and Six of Crows duology and King of Scars Tamsyn Muir's Harrow the Ninth Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Olivia Dade's Spoiler Alert Join us next time for chapters 6-10 of Mansfield Park! Talk to us! We’d love ..read more