American college professor Emma Grant always does the right thing and expects the same from others. She acquired her expectations from her minister father and her favorite author Jane Austen, who both taught her to believe in the happily-ever-after. Life was turning out as planned until she unexpectedly discovers her husband’s affair with her teaching [...]
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Jane Austen Ruined My Life, by Beth Pattillo – A Review
Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged Adventure, Austenesque Books, Beth Pattillo, Book Review, Books, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Jane Austen Sequels, Reviews, Romance on 8 February 2009 | 21 Comments »
Austen at Large: Isabella Thorpe as a modern blogger!
Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged Austen at Large, Guest Blogger, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Virginia Claire Tharrington on 7 February 2009 | 10 Comments »
In this past week I have been finishing Northanger Abbey and as wonderful as the romance is in it, I think one of the most important lessons is about friendship. Catherine learns throughout the novel how to better read people, in particular her friends. She starts out completely fooled by Isabella Thorpe. Catherine thinks that they [...]
Austen Tattler: News and Gossip around the Blogosphere
Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, tagged Austenblog, Austenprose, Book Review, Book Reviews, Claire Tomalin, Classic Literature, Elegant Extracts Blog, Fiction, Georgette Heyer, GirleBooks, In the Garden with Jane Austen, Intimations of Austen, Jane Austen, Jane Austen and Crime, Jane Austen in Vermont, Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Jane Austen Today, Jane Austen's World, Jane Austen: A Life, Jane Fairfax, Joan Aiken, Lady Susan, Masterpiece Classic, Mr. Darcy's Dream, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Ripple Effects, Risky Regencies, Sense and Sensibility (2008), Seth Grahame Smith, The Black Moth, The Excessively Diverting Blog Award, The Man Who Loved Jane Austen, Two Guys Read Jane Austen on 6 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Jane Austen around the blogosphere for the week of February 1st Hot News of the week Definitely the upcoming release of the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which was taken the Internet [...]
Northanger Abbey: Henry Tilney – so becomingly important!
Posted in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged Books, Catherine Morland, Classic Literature, Fiction, Greatcoats, Henry Tilney, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey on 5 February 2009 | 4 Comments »
…in the course of a few minutes, she found herself with Henry in the curricle, as happy a being as ever existed. A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy [...]
Zombies and Vampires and Jane Austen, Oh My! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Haute!
Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, tagged Elizabeth Bennet, Fiction, Jane Austen, Parody, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame Smith, Vampires, Zombies on 3 February 2009 | 11 Comments »
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” And so Gentle Readers begins the altered famous line from Jane Austen’s classic novel now renamed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem and rewrtten by Seth Grahame-Smith [...]
Jane Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for February 2009
Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Austenesque Books, Belinda, Beth Pattillo, Bloom's Jane Austen, Dary's Passions, Elizabeth Ashton, Georgette Heyer, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, Love Lies and Lizzie, Maria Edgeworth, Mr. Darcy's Dream, Northanger Abbey Audio Book, Oxford World's Classics, Regina Jeffers, Rosie Rushton, Tantor Unabridged Classics, The Convenient Marriage on 3 February 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in February, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Mr. Darcy’s Dream: A Novel. Elizabeth Aston continues with her sixth novel of the entertaining exploits of the Darcy family [...]
Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part One
Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Hattie Morahan, Jane Austen, Masterpiece Classic, Sense and Sensibility (2008) on 2 February 2009 | 8 Comments »
They say that time and distance are the best healers. After revisiting the 2008 miniseries of Sense and Sensibility last night on Masterpiece Classic, I have to agree. This controversial new adaptation by Andrew Davies which premiered last March has mellowed for me, and the rough edges that I wrote about in my initial review [...]
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