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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Book Bloggers’
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged Book Blog, Book Bloggers, Book Review, Contemporary Ficton, Jane Austen, Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot 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 [...]
Tides of War, by Stella Tillyard – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged Book Blog, Book Bloggers, Book Review, First Impressions, Jane Austen, Napoleonic Wars, Pride and Prejudice, Stella Tillyard, Tides of War 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 [...]
Jane Austen and Children, by David Selwyn – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Life & Times Book Reviews, tagged Book Blog, Book Bloggers, Book Reviews, Books, David Selwyn, Jane Austen, Jane Austen and Children, Nofiction, Regency History 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 [...]
There Must be Murder, by Margaret C. Sullivan – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged Book Blog, Book Bloggers, Book Review, Boos, Entertainment, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Fan Fiction, Jane Austen Sequels, Margaret C. Sullivan, Mysteries, Novels, There Must Be Murder 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 [...]
Winners Announced in The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy Giveaway
Posted in Austenesque Books, tagged Book Bloggers, Books, Giveaways, Historical Romance, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Fan Fiction, Jane Austen Sequels, Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy on 11 January 2011 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Prom and Prejudice, by Elizabeth Eulberg – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, Young Adult Fiction Book Reviews, tagged Book Bloggers, Book Reviews, Books, Elizabeth Eulberg, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Fan Fiction, Jane Austen Sequels, Prom and Prejudice, YA Fiction, Young Adult Fiction on 5 January 2011 | 17 Comments »
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 [...]














