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• 12 Books to Read Before You Are 30

  

  There are many timeless books you should read, but even books are best read at a specific age. If you are in your twenties, you have already exited your teens... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• 10 Darcy Questions for Victoria Kincaid

  

  DARCY’S HONORVictoria Kincaid has just released her new Pride and Prejudice Variation, Darcy’s Honor. Her imaginative retelling sees Elizabeth Bennet relieved... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Period & More Period: New Shows & Old Acquaintances

  

  The White PrincessHave you seen episode 1 of new Starz The White Princess? I saw and liked The White Queen when it was on, so I have been eagerly waiting for... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• 5 Reasons to Watch Berlin Station

  

  What it is aboutIt's a 10-part spy series which follows Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage) just arrived at the CIA foreign station in Berlin, Germany. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Book Review - Luca Di Fulvio, the Boy Who Granted Dreams

  

  The Boy Who Granted DreamsNew York, 1909: Fifteen-year-old Cetta arrives on a freighter with nothing but her infant son Natale: strikingly blond, dark-eyed,... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Searching for Mr Tilney - Jane Odiwe Answers My Questions About the Hero of...

  

  Jane Odiwe has just released a new book inspired to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey titled “Searching for Mr Tilney” (more about the book below). Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Guest Post - Siddhi Palande, This Happens Only in India

  

  India is a country of age-old traditions and customs. We have an auspicious day every day of every week, 365 days. We have set limits for everything. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• The Jane Austen Portrait Based on Source Materials and Forensic Methods

  

  IntroductionMelissa Dring(by David Baldock, the Director of the Jane Austen Centre Bath)In 2001, Melissa Dring was commissioned by David Baldock, the Director o... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Movie Review - a Cure for Wellness

  

  A cure for wellness sounds rather contradictory. Nevertheless, it does exist. At least in a movie by Gore Verbinski, which this article is going to be about. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• The Darcy Monologues Blog Tour - Christina Boyd Launches the Tour at My Jane...

  

  Thank you, Maria Grazia, for inviting us to launch the blog tour for my latest project, The Darcy Monologues, here at My Jane Austen Book Club. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jane Austen in the World - Engin Inel Holmstrom, Pride and Prejudice with a...

  

  Hi Maria Grazia, So glad in your interest in my new novel House of Daughters -- a retelling of Pride and Prejudice with a Turkish twist. Here’s how it happened. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wuthering Heights 2018 - Interview with Paul Eryk Atlas: Becoming Heathcliff

  

  Shao'ri Morris and Paul Eryk Atlas in a scene from Wuthering HeightsThough he may apparently look quite the brooding Romantic hero, he shares very little with... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Jane Austen for Children. Alice Chandler, Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie

  

  Jane Austen has been part of my life ever since I read Pride and Prejudice as a book-loving child. The book-loving child grew up to be an English professor,... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fifty Shades of Pride & Prejudice

  

  Does it make sense? No? Well, it makes fun!Fifty Shades of Pride and Prejudice? Does something like that make sense? I mean, really? A mash –up of Fifty Shades... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shannon Winslow Presents Leap of Hope from Her New Crossroads Collection

  

  Leap of Hope: Write What You LoveWho hasn’t wondered at least once how life would have changed by making an alternate choice at some crucial moment in the past? Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shannon Winslow Presents Leap of Faith from Her New Crossroads Collection

  

  Leap of Faith: Write What You KnowWho hasn’t wondered at least once how life would have changed by making an alternate choice at some crucial moment in the past? Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Marina Cano, Jane Austen and Performance - the 'performative Potential' Behind...

  

  Dr Marina Cano has just published a very interesting study of Austen’s work and its afterlives. One chapter is dedicated to Jane Austen Fans; that is why I hear... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Under the Spotlight: Keeping Kinley by Annette k. Larsen

  

  Keeping Kinley by Annette K. Larsen He's noble. She's common. It's complicated.Kinley is content with her common life until a chance meeting with an old friend—... Read more

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

• Wuthering Heights 2017: the Trailer is Out! + Interview with Director Nina...

  

  Last week I posted the first installment in my Wuthering Heights 2017 series: my interview with Shao'ri Morris, the actress starring as Catherine Earnshaw in th... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• I've Seen Manchester by the Sea

  

  Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES