Welcome to Weekend Bookblogging, because the Editrix had a busy week and passed out from exhaustion on Friday! Kicking things off with not one but two contests to win books of interest to Jane Austen fans. Amanda Grange and some of the other authors from Historical Romance UK Blog did a guest post at Risky…
At last, the much-anticipated, much-procrastinated (by the Editrix) massive end-of-summer 2008 Jane Austen book roundup! Gird your loins and wade in, Gentle Readers; there’s something here for everyone, we think. First we would like to direct your attention once again to the AustenBlog library at LibraryThing. We’ve catalogued just about all the books in our…
We’re flying a bit by the seat of our pants here, but suffice to say that we’ve recently received and developed a lot of book-related material for the blog (reviews, new books, interviews, etc.) and the time is right to do this, so starting tonight we’ll have book-related posts every day this week. We will…
Welcome to another end-of-the-Weekend Bookblogging, in which we discuss Jane Austen’s books and books about and inspired by Jane Austen and her work. Several Alert Janeites wrote to tell us about a book sold to Ballantine that will probably be published in a year or so called Jane Bites Back. Liz Scheier at Ballantine won…
Spring has arrived at AustenBlog World Headquarters, and our thoughts lightly turn to summer relaxation. It’s time for a roundup of recent and upcoming Jane Austen-related book releases, and we think there are some you will want to add to your beach bag. We also have some other Jane Austen-related book news, so put up…
Alert Janeite Dana sent us a link to a blog post about Jane Austen the Medievalist, riffing off the New Yorker article we posted about in last week’s Bookblogging. Alert Janeite Maria L. sent us an article about a book that could have been written by Charlotte Lucas. The premise is that women shouldn’t wait…
Nothing like waiting till the last minute, is there? 😉 The Adventures in Reading blog is delighted by Northanger Abbey, but then, aren’t all right-thinking people? 😉
Alert Janeite Lisa sent us an editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald about the importance–and pleasure–of reading, wisely quoting the Rev. Mr. Tilney, which is always a smart thing to do in our educated opinion. The novel Northanger Abbey, one of Jane Austen’s less read works, has a gentle dig at the contorted plotlines and…
We just heard that Amanda Grange’s latest Austen hero retelling, Edmund Bertram’s Diary, will be released on November 30, though Amazon UK claims to be shipping it; you can save a few pounds (not to mention postage and packing) if you order directly from Robert Hale. For the more patient in North America, Berkeley will…
It is always amusing when one’s life turns into a Jane Austen novel. Currently we have the distinct pleasure of having Mr. and Mrs. George Wickham as upstairs neighbors. This is especially edifying and entertaining because the fabulous high-tech AustenBlog World Headquarters is contained within a rather old structure and we can hear all of…
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