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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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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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Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP ‘What is it that you read now?’ Mrs. Cobbold gestured to the volume on Harriet’s lap. ‘Another stupid book.’ Harriet put it down. ‘First Impressions is its title; and by A Lady, as usual.’ ‘It does not divert you?’ ‘Divert me, Aunt! I have no wish to be [...]

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29 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a paperback copy of Mr. Darcy’s Secret by Jane Odiwe. The five winners drawn at random are: • Katie who left a comment on 28 February • Chelsea B. who left a comment on 28 February • Jakki Leatherbury who left a comment [...]

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Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “Of the parents who survive [in Austen’s novels] only Catherine Morland’s and Charlotte Heywood’s are unexceptionable.  For the rest, Mrs. Dashwood is kind and loving but admits that she is imprudent.  Most of the others are foolish (Mrs. Bennet, Lady Middleton, Lady Bertram, Sir Walter Elliot), ill-judging [...]

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I was once told by an academic that Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey was the least read of her six major novels. Shocking. I can’t think why; or why we even need to rank masterpieces among masterpieces. I adore it. I will admit that it was the last of her major novels that I read, so [...]

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Three lucky winners were drawn from the comments in The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy Giveaway. Congratulations to: Pat A., Elenatintil and Jessica M. You have each won one copy of The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy, by Mary Lydon Simonsen. To claim your prize, please contact me by January 18, 2011 with your full [...]

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Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict Young adult fiction author Elizabeth Eulberg is back with Prom and Prejudice, her teen driven homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Eulberg has quickly earned a name for herself in the world of teen romances due to the popularity of her debut novel [...]

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