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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A Summer in Europe, by Marilyn Brant – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Marilyn Brant, Summer in Europe on 26 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
Friday Mornings at Nine, by Marilyn Brant – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged Book Blogger, Book Reviews, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Entertainment, Friday Mornings at Nine, Marilyn Brant on 3 March 2011 | 3 Comments »
Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “Relationships are so complicated, and the path strewn with thorns, that everybody struggled somewhere down the line. Early in the dating process. Those rough first years of marriage. Later, when midlife crises and doubts rushed in. Passion waxed and waned across the board, didn’t it? And so [...]
According to Jane, by Marilyn Brant – A Review
Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged According to Jane, Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Sequels, Marilyn Brant on 28 September 2009 | 16 Comments »
Here’s a new novel that tugged at my heart strings and validated my belief that if the world was run according to Jane Austen, we would be much smarter and happier. Enuff said! Fifteen-year old Ellie Barnett is a bookish geek. She excels at academics, but according to her caustic older sister, she is digging [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for September
Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged A Simple Story, According to Jane, Books, Chamein Canton, Collector's Library Editions, Darcy and Anne, Darcy's Temptation, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hugh Thomson, Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Judith Brocklehurst, Lord Byron, Lord Byron Selected Poetry, Marilyn Brant, Mona Scheuermann, Murder at Longbourn, My Cousin Caroline, Oxford World's Classics, Reading Jane Austen, Rebecca Collins, Regina Jeffers, Sense and Sensibility (1971), The Pemberley Chronicles, Tracy Kiely, Waiting for Mr. Darcy on 1 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) According To Jane, by Marilyn Brant Here is a bright new face on the Austen sequel/inspiration market. [...]
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