Jane Austen Addict Blog

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Mutual Admiration Society: The Daily Basics + Jane Austen Addict

Aside from their lovely post about this site and my Austen Addict books, The Daily Basics is "a lifestyle directory," a fabulous place to spend some quality time. Lots of tips and recommendations on books, 

food, fashion, home, travel, good works, you name it, The Daily Basics has it all!

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Looking for more Austen-inspired books?

Musings of a Book Lover posted their Top Ten Books For Those Who Love Jane Austen. And Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict is on the list! Check it out for ten great book recommendations and more in the comments!

It's a list for people who have stuff like this:

And don't forget to enter my giveaway of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. Plus The Journeys of John and Julia by Aurelia. Enter on The Bookworm blog.

Seven Myths About Novelists...and a BIG Giveaway

Read my guest post on The Bookworm and enter for a chance to win three novels:

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by me,

and The Journeys of John and Julia: Genesis (book one of a series) by Aurelia

 

More Library Love

Librarians are finally being acknowledged for their coolness factor.

The Two Mr. Darcys

Darcy in alternate-reality versions of sartorial splendor. The cravat and coat definitely win.

Makes me want to watch Bridget Jones's Diary again. And Pride and Prejudice. Not that one needs an excuse...

Jane Austen & Downton Abbey

Today's must-read: A fascinating piece by Alice Villaseñor in The Journal of Victorian Culture drawing textual and cinematic connections between two of my most favorite things, Jane Austen and Downton Abbey.

Maggie Smith, as the acid-tongued Dowager Countess Grantham. Lady Catherine could learn a thing or two from her.

 

The Writing Life: Getting Yourself Out Of The Way

From a really wonderful interview in the Goodreads Young Adult Book Club with Aurelia Haslboeck, author of THE JOURNEYS OF JOHN AND JULIA: GENESIS (book 1 of the series):

The most difficult part for me [about writing] is having the discipline to sit down and do it. There is really nothing romantic about the process of writing itself.

I'd like to think that my characters all speak for themselves and I only take dictation.

Talk about getting yourself out of the way! Seriously the best advice ever. I am definitely going to remember this.

There are loads more gems in the interview, so do read it, and enter the giveaway! You may just win a copy of THE JOURNEYS OF JOHN AND JULIA: GENESIS! It's brilliant.

Join the livestream readathon of Pride and Prejudice today!

"...people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."

--Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Today is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and this quote is one of the many reasons we are still reading it today. Austen's keen eye for the complexities of human nature is as relevant now as it was on January 28, 1813. Like the characters in this masterful work, and like we humans who are fortunate enough to read it, there is something new to be observed every time.

Want to find out for yourself what everyone's so wild about? Join the livestream readathon of Pride and Prejudice with the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, starting at 11 AM GMT till 11 PM GMT.

Thank you, Miss Austen, and happy birthday, P&P!

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the incomparable 1995 5-part P&P

Pride & Prejudice turns 200

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . . . Timeless.

A first edition of Pride and Prejudice

Get ready to celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous, beloved, and adapted novels in the English language at a new site dedicated to news about bicentenary events all over the world.

via www.prideandprejudice200.org.uk