Welcome to Weekend Bookblogging! There is lots of news this week, especially since we were too lazy and distracted with domestic crises to post on Friday, and lots more came in over the weekend. Thanks to all the Alert Janeites who have sent us news. The Times lists the ten best second novels ever, and…
The BBC has an article about the search for an author to write a sequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that mentions existing literary sequels to Pride and Prejudice, most notably PEMBERLEY by Emma Tennant. There was a mixed reaction to Tennant’s take on such a popular book, stamping her own mark on the story…
Not one but two modern-set film adaptations/fanfic based on/inspired by Persuasion are in progress. Now, we want to be clear about our opinion of filming fanfic: For the record I have no general objection to filming fanfic, but let's call it what it is. — Margaret C. Sullivan (@mcsullivan) July 21, 2018 This is not necessarily…
Our second giveaway is one each of two books published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing, A Jane Austen Devotional and The Christian Encounters Series: Jane Austen by Peter J. Leithart. They are featuring the ebooks of these two titles for 99 cents for today, December 16, only, in celebration of Jane’s birthday. However, they are also…
If Austen paraliterature–sequels, prequels, retellings, embellishments, modernizations–has become a genre of its own, then retellings of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the hero has become a genre within a genre. There are at least a dozen of these retellings, some quite enjoyable and some, frankly, quite bewildering. We are not a…
Review by Shelly Quade When I opened my package in the mail the other day, and removed Murder Most Persuasive from its cardboard envelope, I did not anticipate enjoying this novel to the degree that occurred. The third book featuring protagonist Elizabeth Parker, a young woman who quotes Jane Austen and solves any mystery she…
Review by Allison T. One reason why Austen’s works have held up so well over the years is their relatively spare use of description, either of places or of people or of things. Even a young, inexperienced reader can gallop along devouring the essence of the story without bothering too much about the differences between…
(Trying to make the title sound Jane Austenish, and not really succeeding.) If anyone cares (we’re looking at you, Federal Trade Commission), we’ve updated our disclaimers and information about book and other media reviews on AustenBlog in light of new “guidelines” from the FTC about blogger reviews and endorsements. We have mixed feelings about these…
Review by Allison T. Their attraction is so hot, it should be against the law! trumpets the publisher’s blurb on Sara Angelini’s The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy; A modern Pride & Prejudice. Meet Elizabeth Bennet, a “fresh-faced,” sassy trial attorney, who takes a dislike to Judge Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy British landowner who,…
Welcome to Weekend (sometimes Friday) Bookblogging, in which we share links related to Jane Austen’s novels or books about or related to them. Norman Geras at Normblog wonders how any list purporting to be of the 100 greatest authors of all time cannot include Jane Austen. We have to agree with that, especially since about…
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