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Austenprose on Holiday!

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, tagged , , , on 29 June 2011 | 15 Comments »

Well, not really a holiday, but it sounds much better than telling you all that I am in the midst of moving to a new cottage here in the Pacific Northwest and my life is in transit right now. In this instance, we are in agreement with that buffoon Robert Ferrars… “For my own part,” [...]

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Mailbox Monday: The Elusive Jane Austen Bobble-head

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen Merchandise, tagged , , , on 20 June 2011 | 28 Comments »

For years I seriously thought that the Jane Austen bobble-head was a Janeite myth. I had never seen one in person, only “read” about them in my online travels. I once saw one listed in an eBay auction that went for an exorbitant final bid. Who would pay that much for a toy??? It became [...]

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Friday Funnies: Pride and Prejudice and Dr. Who

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, tagged , , , , on 17 June 2011 | 14 Comments »

LOL! The movie trailer of the 2005 Pride & Prejudice is a YouTube phenom. It has been mashed up into so many other movie combinations: Harry Potter, Sailor Moon, Robin Hood, Vampire Diaries, Star Wars, Anastasia, North and South, and hundreds of others, that it is mind boggling. Check out this hilarious mash-up of P&P [...]

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Play Along with Matches & Matrimony: A Pride and Prejudice Tale

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen Merchandise, tagged , , , on 23 April 2011 | 6 Comments »

OK Janeites, it’s Saturday AND a holiday weekend. Let’s have some mindless fun with a Pride and Prejudice gaming action! This new sims-like game, Matches & Matrimony, created by Reflexive® Entertainment was released in February. According to online reviews at Gamezebo and by Janeite, Jennifer at The Bennet Sisters Blog, it is quite diverting, but [...]

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Which Jane Austen Character Do You Most Indentify With?

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 14 April 2011 | 56 Comments »

Gentle Readers, Vic  from Jane Austen’s World and I both freely admit to being passionate Jane Austen fans, which tends to infiltrate our everyday world in ways that have us viewing friends and ourselves through Austen’s unique prism. Here is a bit of fun today for your amusement: LA: Vic and I were chatting on [...]

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Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Stalk Jane Austen

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , on 8 April 2011 | 23 Comments »

Gentle Readers: Here is a guest post with some Friday fun to get the weekend rolling early. Alyssa Palazzo is a young college student with a passion/obsession for our dear Jane. I thought her essay charming and very funny. Enjoy! My friends think I have a problem. I follow Jane Austen on Twitter.  I watch [...]

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A Bookselling Moment with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies & the Judgmental Bookselling Ostrich

Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Humor, tagged , , , , , on 25 March 2011 | 4 Comments »

Booksellers get asked the most amazing questions and we all love to share our best customer interactions with each other. Recently the really hysterical stories seem to be involving zombies. I had my own personal book selling moment with zombies last year, so when my fellow bookseller Jen Beard told me about her own interaction, [...]

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Jane Austen @ the Super Bowl with Rosanne Cash

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen Inspired, tagged , , , , , , , on 7 February 2011 | 10 Comments »

Not only is signer-songwritter-author Rosanne Cash best friends with actress Jennifer Ehle (Lizzy Bennet in another life), but she is a wicked Jane Austen channeler on Twitter. Here are some of her tweets in Austenesque fashion during the Super Bowl yesterday. @RosanneCash Regarding the Legume Chorale, it grieves me to note that the spectacle exceeds [...]

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