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From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: UK bonnet drama viewers are in for a treat this week as the new BBC One miniseries of Jane Austen’s novel Emma premieres in the UK on Sunday, October 4th from 9–10:00 p.m. GMT. This is the first of four episodes of the adaptation by BAFTA award winning... Continue Reading →
Here’s a new novel that tugged at my heartstrings and validated my belief that if the world was run according to Jane Austen, we would be much smarter and happier. Enuff said! Fifteen-year-old Ellie Barnett is a bookish geek. She excels at academics, but according to her caustic older sister, she is digging herself into... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress:Â Did you know that Mr. Darcy had an American cousin?! In this highly original Pride and Prejudice sequel by British author Monica Fairview, Caroline Bingley is our heroine. Caroline is sincerely broken-hearted when Mr. Darcy marries Lizzy Bennet that is, until she meets his charming and sympathetic American... Continue Reading →
Originally self-published in 2007 as A Letter to Lady Catherine, this Pride and Prejudice spinoff has a surprising new heroine – Anne De Bourgh! Yes, I heard that collective gasp of astonishment. A whole novel devoted to Mr. Darcy’s sickly, unaccomplished, and henpecked cousin? Indeed! Judith Brocklehurst’s novel may have been given a grand makeover... Continue Reading →
Fall is in the air, and if you are looking for a great new murder mystery novel to cozy up with, Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely is an excellent choice. Cleverly combining a traditional drawing room detective story and a comedy of manners, this surprisingly witty and beguilingly suspenseful whodunit is actually a contemporary chick-lit... Continue Reading →
Final day of the Book Blogger Appreciation Week and the challenge is to write in 50 words or less, on what I like about my blog now, and where would I like it to be in one year? We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person... Continue Reading →
The blog topic for the fourth day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week (September 14-18) is to write about a book that you discovered by reading about it on another blog - so here goes. Friday’s Child, by Georgette Heyer – recommended by Vic at Jane Austen’s World For years and years, I had been reading... Continue Reading →
Day three of Book Blogging Appreciation Week presents a daily blogging topic as a book reading meme, where we were give a set group of questions to answer and encouraged to be creative. Never one to take the obvious or easy road, I decided to challenge myself beyond just answering the questions from my point... Continue Reading →
Day two of Book Blogger Appreciation Week and time for an interview swap with Megan of Write Meg, one of my favorite book blogs. I know that you will enjoy getting to know this bright, talented, and funny lady as much as I did. You can read the other half of our diptych interview as... Continue Reading →
Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009 begins today September 14th and runs through the 18th. It is an annual event set aside in celebration of the online book blogging community and recognition all those hard working book readers/bloggers. You can read my initial announcement for all the details. Here are few blogs that did not make... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan has never received much attention in comparison to her other six major novels. It is a short piece, only 70 pages in my edition of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works containing forty-one letters and a conclusion. Scholars estimate that it was written between 1793-4 when the young... Continue Reading →
I write only to bid you farewell, the spell is removed; I see you as you are…You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish,... Continue Reading →
