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Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea: A Re-imagining of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, by Mary Lydon Simonsen – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 February 2012 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Lucy Warriner If your lost love returned with no recollection of the dispute that separated you, how would you react? If you had a second chance at happiness with him, would you divulge your tumultuous past? Anne Elliot faces these questions in Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea, Mary Lydon Simonsen’s new [...]

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Compulsively Mr. Darcy, by Nina Benneton – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 11 February 2012 | 13 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder I’ve often wondered what modern day psychiatric medicine would say about some of my favorite literary characters.  Are they bi-polar?  Do they suffer from ADHD, depression, or a form of autism?  Author Nina Benneton explores what a modern day Darcy would be like, suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder in her [...]

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Epic Fail, by Claire LaZebnik – Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, Young Adult Fiction Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 18 December 2011 | 5 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict One of the greatest things about book blogging is the ability to spread the gift of reading to everyone that comes across my blog.  This is especially true with younger readers, who may have less exposure now to “the classics” than I might have [...]

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$1.99 eBooks from Sourcebooks in Celebration of Jane Austen’s Birthday

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , on 14 December 2011 | 9 Comments »

Come celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday on December 16th with eBooks available for only $1.99! Sourcebooks, the number one publisher of Jane Austen sequels is offering a selection of fourteen Mr. Darcy themed eBooks for only $1.99, available December 13th thorough December 30th, 2011. Here is their description: The Darcy of your dreams is just a [...]

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The Unexpected Miss Bennet, by Patrice Sarath – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 11 December 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Jeffrey Ward Mary Bennet, that plain, pedantic, priggish, middle sister from Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice, who gave us deadpan lines such as, “I admire the activity of your benevolence…but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to [...]

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Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen, edited by Robert Morrison – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 18 November 2011 | 15 Comments »

Last year, the good folks at the Harvard University Press presented the first installment in their commitment to annotate all six of Jane Austen’s major novels. Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen and edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks set the standard for the series: an unabridged first edition text, annotations by an [...]

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Preview of Death Comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James, & a Giveaway!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , on 11 November 2011 | 90 Comments »

Do you remember what your reaction was when you learned that famed British crime novelist P. D. James, an ardent admirer of Jane Austen, had written a sequel to Pride and Prejudice? I do. I gasped in total disbelief and stared at my computer screen for about a minute while the world around me stood [...]

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The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen, by Lindsay Ashford – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 6 November 2011 | 23 Comments »

Jane Austen’s personal life is a bit of an enigma. We know a bit about her day-to-day life from her remaining personal correspondence; of which a few snippets allude to her beaux and friends. Readers are often puzzled how a spinster wrote so perceptively about romance and the human heart. One would think that first-hand [...]

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