Some people HAVE to finish every single book they start. I'm looking at Mr Books here! I used to be like that, but that was before I started working in a bookshop. In fact, I can think of only two books I bailed on pre-bookshop. One was Gillian Mears' Grass Sister, which was given to … Continue reading #MiniReviews – the DNF edition
August is turning out to be a busy, but exciting reading month. Poetry Month Red Room Poetry is once again hosting Poetry Month across Australia to promote awareness and visibility of poetry and to support the growing diversity of voices. They provide a handy list of 30 ways for the rest of us to celebrate … Continue reading August – Poetry and Austen
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine. I was thrilled when Adam announced that he was planning to reinstate his Austen in August reading event. I have reread all my Austen's multiple times, of course, but I have more than one edition … Continue reading The Annotated Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen & David M. Shapard #CCspin
I'm struggling to write reviews at the moment (my Covid Chronicles posts are the writing exception), but I am slowly reading through a few books. One that I've just finished is Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym. It was her very first book published in 1950. I was curious to see what I had to … Continue reading Excellent Women | Barbara Pym #ComfortRead
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things has been sitting on my TBR for a few years now. I was fortunate enough to be gifted it during an #AusteninAugust competition with Adam @Roof Beam Reader, and I hang my head in shame that it has taken me so long to finish it.My only excuse … Continue reading The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
I have read Persuasion so many times I've lost count.It's pretty much the same story for all of my Austen's. I reread them for comfort as well as the pure pleasure of spending time with a good friend.But as with all long-term friendships, a time comes when you realise that maybe you're starting to take each … Continue reading The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen & David M. Shapard
Last week I indulged in a little walk down the red carpet with Jane Austen called Austen on Screen. I quickly realised it was going to take more than one post to adequately explore my love affair with Austen on the screen. The Pride and Prejudice adaptations were so numerous and I found I had … Continue reading Austen on Screen Take 2
There are so many versions of Jane Austen's books available to watch on the big and little screen, that it would take more viewing time than I currently have to do justice to all of them. But over the years, I've given it my best shot! Today's post is all about Pride and Prejudice and … Continue reading Austen on Screen
Over the past few years I've participated in Adam @RoofBeamReader's Austen in August with a great deal of pleasure, but he has decided not to run with it this year. I understand completely.Every September/October I angst over whether or not I will go ahead with my very own AusReadingMonth in November...and AusReadingMonth is a much … Continue reading August? Austen?
Adam @RoofBeamReader once again hosted #AusteninAugustRBR as well as a #CBAM2017 readalong for Northanger Abbey.I've read Northanger Abbey a couple of times, many years ago, but it wasn't really one of my preferred Austen's.... until I saw the wonderful 1986 BBC TV film starring Robert Hardy, Katharine Schlesinger and Peter Firth, about ten years after it was … Continue reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Broke and the Bookish host a weekly meme called Top Ten Tuesday.Each week they nominate a topic to encourage those of us who love a good list to get all listy.This week it's all about Jane Austen...It would be easy to list my top ten favourite Austen quotes, but this week on TTT, it's all … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday Jane Austen Hidden Gems
Jane Austen's unfinished work, The Watsons (c.1804) is an exercise in frustration on many levels. The story is unfinished, unedited and unpolished, yet somehow it still sparkles with Austen's trademark wit and brilliance.What could this story have been, if Austen had finished, edited and polished it?Sara Morante (2012)Just as we settle into the new story and … Continue reading The Watsons by Jane Austen
My Jane-ite credentials will hopefully be confirmed by my declaration that I have two copies of Love and Freindship (sic) on my bookshelf! One is in my lovely cloth bound Penguin Classics (2014); the other is part of my treasured Folio Society Jane Austen boxed set from 2003. Between the two books, I believe I have the entire … Continue reading Love and Freindship (sic) | Jane Austen #AusteninAugust
Lady Susan is an epistolary novel written around 1794 when Austen was in her late teens (although it was not published until 1871).Lady Susan, herself, is an amoral, self-serving coquette, but it's hard not to love her just a little bit. She has a happy knack of twisting the facts to suit herself and an … Continue reading Lady Susan by Jane Austen
It's time for me to catch up on what's going on in bloggerland. I'm slowly coming out of my blogging malaise. Strategically ignoring all the unwritten book responses lined up next to my computer is part of the plan! While checking out what the rest of you are up to is a lovely diversion. I … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #12
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