Three New Novels for 2021 Inspired by Old Classics
I spent the first weeks of 2021 reading 3 books that take classic novels & authors & give them a 21st-century twist in very different ways.
Continue ReadingI spent the first weeks of 2021 reading 3 books that take classic novels & authors & give them a 21st-century twist in very different ways.
Continue ReadingBring the correspondence from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to life with this new, unique edition with physical letters from within the story.
Continue ReadingIn this month’s Between the Bookends, Sophie, Lisa, Rebecca, and Missy share some of their favorite recent reads.
Continue ReadingWhether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day this weekend or not, romance is in the air. It’s cold outside, so it’s a great time of year to heat things up inside.
Continue ReadingImagine an online RPG held in the Regency era of Jane Austen. Check out this Kickstarter.
Continue ReadingCelebrate the 200th birthday of Pride and Prejudice with this Jane-Austen-inspired endless runner app.
Continue ReadingThis week, Jules‘ youngest turned 13. Now she is officially the parent of two teenage boys. Jules is also happy to announce that next week, Sunburst Award winning Canadian author Alyx Dellamonica will be co-hosting Jules’ Geeky Pleasures Radio Show. They plan to discuss her newest book Blue Magic, LGBT issues, and more. If you’ve […]
Continue ReadingWhat better year than 2011, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, to learn a bit about Jane Austen’s life? Maybe you’ve seen a movie or two made from her books, or maybe you’ve even read the books themselves. But Jane Austen’s life had few things in common […]
Continue ReadingJust because it is 200 year old romantic literature doesn’t mean it can’t be represented in a graphic novel. Recently, Marvel Comics put out several graphic novels with stories that don’t have superheroes. At least not in the traditional sense. Two of them are the Jane Austen novels, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. […]
Continue ReadingThis year, 2011, marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. It was the first of her six novels to be published, so this year starts the several-year celebration of the 200th anniversary of all of her novel publications (two novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously, in 1818). […]
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