Eligible

Eligible is one of those books I was just seeing everywhere, and then by some stroke of fortune my tiny little library had it on the “new reads” shelf. I was so excited! I was even the first person to check it out.:) Then of course I discoverd that it is one of a series of Austen retellings called The Austen Project, and of course now I must read all of them. The life of a book addict is hard, I'm telling you! Anyway, on to the review.

Well before his arrival in Cincinnati, everyone knew that Chip Bingley was looking for a wife.

Eligible

It wasn't a secret that her mother fetishized all manner of domestic decor.

Since Liz's adolescence, when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children...she had felt like a foreign exchange student observing the customs of another country.

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“Lizzy, nothing could bring me greater happiness than to have you staying at my house, freaking out about a boy.”

“To top what's come so far, it had better have to do with alien abduction or bestiality.”