Share [Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing. The entry chronicling my #everythingausten list, has also been updated.] Several years ago, while working at $corporate_bookstore, I came across Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler which promised a fresh perspective in the Jane Austen paraliterature canon. I had been burned before by authors who [...]
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Review: Books: One Day
Share [Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing.] You’re going to read this book and know at least one thing: That the end won’t end happily or tied up in a big pink bow and that tissues will be needed. This is David Nicholls we are talking about here, where his endings are never simple nor do [...]
Review: Books: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargave Manor #everythingausten
Share [Cross-posted to GoodReads, LibraryThing and Opinions of a Wolf. The entry chronicling my #everythingausten list, has also been updated.] One of my, um, “hobbies” is that I’ll occasionally google authors/books/characters/worlds whatever and see if there is fan fiction for a particular pairing, no matter how bizarre or unlikely that pairing may be. Then I [...]
Everything Austen II: The Jane Austen Challenge #everythingausten
Share So, Jane Austen. Woman writes six books, dies at the age of 41 with something no one is quite sure what killed her and is discretely known during her lifetime for her writing. BUT! And here’s the big but, she’s NEVER gone out of print in the nearly 200 years since her death. She’s [...]
reviews: books: When Will There Be Good News?
Share [Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing.] One of the reasons I adore Kate Atkinson so much is that her books are mysteries that you didn’t know were mysteries until the very end. She has a writing style that I have found to be fairly unique. Her prose tends to border on stream of consciousness and [...]
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