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The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Mystery, by Regina Jeffers – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 2 May 2012 | 15 Comments »

Review by Lisa Galek In case you’re like me and can never seem to get enough of your favorite Jane Austen characters, The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy will have you curled up next to the fires at Pemberley in no time. Just don’t expect to stay too long… for there’s a mystery to be solved! [...]

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The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, by Elizabeth Kantor – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Help & Advice Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 11 April 2012 | 7 Comments »

How many Wickhams, Willoughbys or Mr. Collins’ have you met before a Captain Wentworth, Mr. Knightley, or (miracle of miracles) Mr. Darcy landed on your doorstep? For the benefit of those who may not know who those gentlemen are, they are male characters in Jane Austen novels. They teach her heroines important life lessons about [...]

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On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 21 January 2012 | 24 Comments »

Guest Review by Aia A. Hussein Not too long ago, I picked up my old and battered copy of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and reread the novel.  It was my third reading.  I was pretty confident that I would stop reading after the first few chapters, thinking that I only wanted a small dose of [...]

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Death Comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 4 January 2012 | 30 Comments »

I consider it more than a bit perplexing when an author begins their book with an apology. In this case, it is to author Jane Austen for using her characters. Since Death Comes to Pemberley is a sequel to Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it is like apologizing for snow being cold. If you are going [...]

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Top 20 Jane Austen-inspired Books of 2011

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, tagged , , , , , on 2 January 2012 | 23 Comments »

Happy New Year Janeites! 2012 promises to be a glorious Jane-packed reading extravaganza for Austenesque and Regency fans. In the next few months we are looking forward to several novels: the debut of Austentatious, by Alyssa Goodnight (January 31), a new mystery, Midnight in Austenland, by Shannon Hale (Jan 31), and Jane Vows Vengeance: A [...]

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The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 30 December 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP “In the days when success in life had depended on marriage and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce [...]

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