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• Monica Fairview, My Top 3 Pride and Prejudice Movie Moments

  

  It’s such a pleasure to appear once again on My Jane Austen Book Club. It’s very kind of you, Maria Grazia, to allow me to stop by on my Mysterious Mr. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books & More Books: Words, Books & Mysterious Pasts

  

  detail from the cover of "La libreria dove tutto è possibile"Two brilliant debut novels, two books about books, bookshops or bookstores. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2018 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Books at the Oscars: the Shape of Water & Call Me by Your Name

  

  From Books to Movies, From Movies to BooksOscar talking is everywhere these days and the hype is growing now we are just a few hours away from discovering... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2018 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• My Life in Quotes - Choose Kind

  

  “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind” - Wonder by R.J. Palacio Driving through the narrow streets of my town on my way to... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Meet John Kessel, Author of Pride and Prometheus

  

  Hello John and welcome to My Jane Austen Book Club. I’d like to start our chat with a question that came to my mind as soon as I read you were publishing,... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sweetest Ruin Blog Tour - Read an Excerpt & Win a Copy

  

  Good morning, Maria Grazia! Thank you for hosting me at your blog, My Jane Austen Book Club. It’s a pleasure to be here to share an excerpt with your readers... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• At the Movies - My Best Favourite Oscar Nominees

  

  My best favouritesI really hoped to see them in the prestigious lists after the recognition they got at the Golden Globes, but we can never be sure, can't we? Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2018 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• All the Things i Know Blog Tour: Audrey Ryan on Writing Pride and Prejudice for...

  

  I’ve chosen an excerpt to feature in this post that’s related to finding the perfect job. Why is this important? Because there some very unique trends in the... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Robin Daniels, from the Hard Task of Being a Teenager to the Hard Task of Writin...

  

  I have an admission. This is the first time someone has asked me to write a guest post for a blog. Honestly, I have no idea if this is how it works, but this... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• DANGEROUS TO KNOW BLOG TOUR - AMY D'ORAZIO, CAPTAIN TILNEY Vs MR DARCY

  

  Was Captain Tilney the Darcy of Northanger Abbey? Ok, stay with me here.I was really excited to have the opportunity to write Captain’s Tilney’s story for my... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Plunder with Intent Blog Tour: Five Questions for Author Joanna D’este Clark

  

  Plunder with Intent is a beautiful story of love, justice and tragedy about the family of a 19th Century English aristocrat who steals a line of beautiful marbl... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Victoria Grossack, Lies & Liars in Jane Austen

  

  (by Victoria Grossack) In Jane Austen’s works, the bad guys lie. A lot.In fact, dishonesty in both word and deed frequently propels the plot. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don Jacobson, Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess

  

  The Process Behind the Cover of “Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess”By this point, Janet Taylor and I have firmly established the overall cover format for Bennet... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alice Chandler, Madelon and Cameron and the Dominions of Time

  

  I’ve spent a lifetime with stories—listening to my father’s wonderful stories when I was a child, teaching about stories as an English professor, and finally... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Catherine Lodge, the Perils of Perfidious Plagiarists

  

  In August 2015, I was preparing to enjoy my birthday party at a sister's house, my family was around me, a small nephew was instructing me on the correct way... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Could Write a Book Blog Tour - Karen m. Cox, Looking for a New Love

  

  Looking For a New Love: Why We Should Let Lizzy have Mr. Darcy, and Set Our Caps for George Knightley (a tongue-in-cheek male review)All of Austen’s heroes... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Particular Attachments Blog Tour - L.l. Diamond Introduces Her Hero, Lord...

  

  Particular AttachmentsShe swore would never marry!Georgiana Darcy is a lady with a secret! The last thing she wants is to return to London, but what else can sh... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane Austen and the Men Who Loved Her

  

  (by Alice Chandler) Why do so few men read Jane Austen? That question has been getting a lot of attention recently. In an article reprinted in the blog Jane... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fair Stands the Wind Blog Tour - Catherine Lodge, in Defence of Mrs Bennet

  

  Author Guest PostI admit it, I feel sorry for Mrs Bennet. I know she would be horrendously annoying to live with, no one likes to hear the same thing over and... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen's Rakes and Gentlemen Rogues. Christina Boyd...

  

  Oops, I’m at it again. I’m Christina Boyd, the editor of The Darcy Monologues, and I am thrilled to finally announce that my next anthology project, Dangerous t... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE