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• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Kara Louise, Writer

  

  What would my life have been without Jane Austen? In thinking about how to answer this question, what came to mind first were the thingsI now had since first... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Austen in Boston

  

  Austen in Boston has been existence since April 2010. We meet once a month (or occasionally more) to discuss Jane Austen, Jane Austen Fan Fiction, and... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Linda Beutler, Writer

  

  If I’ve Told You Once…The Importance of Jane Austen By Linda Beutler, author, The Red Chrysanthemum“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you one hundred times…”*... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Maria Grace, Writer

  

  I was late in discovering Jane Austen—I blame high school. Unlike Jane Austen, our English department thought it good to linger upon pens that dwelt upon guilt... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Mary Lydon Simonsen, Writer

  

  What would my life have been like without Jane Austen?I can answer that question in one word: poorer, both literally and figuratively. Long before I became a... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! P.o. Dixon, Writer

  

  What would my life have been like without Jane Austen? My life is nothing at all as it was before I started immersing myself in Jane Austen’s novels. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Monica Fairview, Writer

  

  A Serene Place like JaneFacebook, twitter,cell phones bickerNoises, images, videos flickerStreams of dataFlowing byEverything happeningMy, oh, myNo time to... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Sally Smith O'rourke, Writer

  

  My mother was somewhat disappointed that I wasn’t a reader. I was a true tom boy, hanging by my knees from the swing set, climbing trees, playing ball, riding... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Natalie Richards, Blogger

  

  What would your life have been without Jane Austen? I can honestly say that my life would be completely different if Jane Austen was not a part of it. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! Valerie Laws, Writer

  

  MY LIFE WITHOUT JANE AUSTEN If the ‘Men in Black’ popped in and zapped Jane Austen and her books out of my brain, it would be like having a large number of... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spell Fire Blog Tour - My Fascination with Ya Fiction Guest Post by Author...

  

  “You can tell what age an author got stuck in by what genre he or she writes.”I think it was Lin Oliver who said the above quote, right after she had... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Video Interview: Joanna Trollope, Sense and Sensibility? a Novel About Money

  

  Shot on occasion of the first event in the series Hidden Prologues at Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street, this video features Joanna Trollope. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Creative Strategies That Will Kick-start Your Book Writing Project

  

  (by guest blogger Candace Meyer) Writing a book is one of the goals of aspiring authors and bestseller writers. To be able to create a really good book is... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Homes of Classic Literature

  

  At many a time we can become lost between the pages of a good book. Immersed in its fantasy and mysterious tales, the captivating characters, scenes and a littl... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Jane Austen's Birthday - What Would Our Lives Have Been Without Jane Austen?

  

  Dear friends,Jane Austen's birthday is coming soon, in two weeks, and, as we did in the past few years, we would like to celebrate the occasion here at My Jane... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Austen Project: Joanna Trollope Debates Her "sense & Sensibility" in London

  

  Joanna Trollope will be the first in a series of leading authors to unveil the hidden back story to their latest book, with the launch of a new monthly... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• While Waiting for the Desolation of Smaug, What About a Journey to the...

  

  Richard Armitage as Thorin in The Hobbit - The Desolation of SmaugThe Hobbit movie 2, The Desolation of Smaug, is going to be released in less than a month and... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Getting Ready to Celebrate the Thanksgiving Season

  

  ( by guest blogger Kendra Thornton) The holiday season will soon be with us once again. Nights are getting colder, the brightly colored leaves are beginning to... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• At the Cinema - About Time

  

  I'd wanted to watch this film since I first heard about it but I wanted to see it even more when I discovered it would be Richard Curtis 's last. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Maurizio Malagnini, an Italian in Paradise - Interview with the Composer of...

  

  Are you enjoying The Paradise on BBC One or Masterpiece PBS? Have you noticed how beautiful its soundtrack is? My guest today is the composer of the wonderful... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 CULTURE, MOVIES