Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Book Bloggers’

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Tides of War, by Stella Tillyard – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 23 October 2011 | 9 Comments »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Winners Announced in the Mr. Darcy’s Secret Giveaway!

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 10 March 2011 | 7 Comments »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Jane Austen and Children, by David Selwyn – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Life & Times Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 20 February 2011 | 4 Comments »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

There Must be Murder, by Margaret C. Sullivan – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 19 January 2011 | 18 Comments »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »