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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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Second Impressions, by Ava Farmer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 18 February 2012 | 9 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising With her husband’s solemn assurances that he did not regret his marriage to her as the cause of no heir, his generous and reasonable reflections on the matter, and his half-jest that , ‘should Georgiana never marry, one of the Bingley boys will do very well,’ Elizabeth [...]

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The Garden Intrigue, by Lauren Willig – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 15 February 2012 | 7 Comments »

Guest review by Jeffrey Ward Dear readers and fans I bring good news Lauren Willig has shown her muse In Pink Carnation number nine The Garden Intrigue, most divine Eloise Kelly is in England researching her dissertation on English espionage during the Napoleonic Wars; especially a shadowy figure known only as the Pink Carnation. Eloise’s [...]

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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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Midnight in Austenland: A Novel, by Shannon Hale – A Review

Posted in Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 8 February 2012 | 19 Comments »

Guest review by Christina Boyd Best-selling author of Austenland, and soon to be motion picture of same, Shannon Hale, takes us on another retreat to England in her latest offering, Midnight in Austenland. When the nice American Charlotte Kinder married a nice man named James in a nice wedding, later giving birth to and raising [...]

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April Lady, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 29 January 2012 | 9 Comments »

Guest Review by Laura A. Wallace Georgette Heyer’s April Lady is the last re-issue by Sourcebooks of Heyer’s novels.  (The very last is Pistols for Two, a collection of short stories.)  Originally published in 1957, it is comfortably set within the Regency period that she had made her own.  The setting is London, and the [...]

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A Summer in Europe, by Marilyn Brant – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 26 January 2012 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “A chorus of Happy Birthday roused her into greater awareness of the rest of the group.  Her aunt, who’d managed to light candles on a big, chocolate, sprinkle-covered birthday cake, came forward in song and demanded Gwen’s attention.  She thought about her wish: to be happy, secure, [...]

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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 | 23 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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