tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post5416610506812663130..comments2024-01-20T18:08:44.444-05:00Comments on You Can Never Have Too Many Books: Jane Austen Challenge - I could never resist this!!!Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-58970879848193176962009-07-13T19:21:53.560-04:002009-07-13T19:21:53.560-04:00Becca: doesn't it, though? I'll let you k...Becca: doesn't it, though? I'll let you know when I read it - it's top of my Jane Austen pile. I just need an expanding window of time now to read all these books!!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-1402034674551504522009-07-13T17:56:41.682-04:002009-07-13T17:56:41.682-04:00Well, I may have to add Letters to Alice on First ...Well, I may have to add Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen to my list for Everything Austen...that sounds simply too delightful to pass up.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623887166087444590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-6247162985709694262009-07-06T19:24:18.604-04:002009-07-06T19:24:18.604-04:00Sheila: I thought I could look online too, but it...Sheila: I thought I could look online too, but it was on sale on Amazon.ca, so I bought it!!! lol I think I'll share a few though, for the challenge! <br /><br />BookPusher: I think your daughter speaks for all of us, we all have some Austen days and some Bronte days! I really like that quote! :-D<br />I'll let you know when the Austen cookbook arrives. I think there will be a demand to copy a few onto a post so everyone can try one or two!! lol<br /><br />I haven't decided if the dramatizations enhance or annoy me more, because something - some favourite part or another - is always left out in any version of any of them I watch! The Colin Firth one comes closest to catching it all, because it had 6 hours to do so. I've read everything but Mansfield Park, and seen all the different versions put out in the last 20 + years by BBC and ITV. So I guess I do like the tv productions. they let me see what the setting is like - the clothing, fashion, table settings, decor, that kind of thing. And the hand touching - if you notice, in almost every book, at some point their hands meet. Also in North and South, which I just watched again Saturday night! *Richard Armitage* is so good in that roll! I swear I hear his voice now and I start drooling a little....<br /><br />bride: that's ok! there's so much I don't like, I think Jane Austen is someone a reader either gets or doesn't, like Jane Eyre/Brontes, or Charles Dickens or George Eliot. I still like you!! lol<br /><br />Michele: we had a copy on the Canadian version of Amazon, so I ordered it :-) thanks!<br /><br />bermudaonion: thanks! I think I will.<br /><br />JaneGS: I was thinking of you when I saw this challenge! as you say, it's more of a challenge for you not to read anything Jane for 6 months!!!<br /><br />I hope you have fun being Henry. Have you ever been Cassandra? or Jane herself?<br /><br />Wasn't the new NA fun? I do so love the man who plays Henry Tilney, and oh yes, I haven't bought it yet, but it just might find its way home soon too. I'll let you know how the challenge goes and how I like everything. Thanks!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-39504881325296624852009-07-06T14:58:54.421-04:002009-07-06T14:58:54.421-04:00Okay, so the harder challenge might be to go 6 mon...Okay, so the harder challenge might be to go 6 months without doing anything Austen!<br /><br />I just signed up to "be" Henry Austen at an upcoming JASNA meeting on siblings, so I am going to be reading the Claire Tomlin bio along with some articles that focus on Henry.<br /><br />The Letters on First Reading Austen is one of the first Austen paralit books I ever bought and is due for a reread...but I remember liking it. Daniel Poole's books have some accuracy problems, but they are fun to read.<br /><br />My daughter just finished P&P&Zombies, and enjoyed it...I'll be eager to see if you do the same!<br /><br />I also loved the new NA--need to watch it again!<br /><br />Enjoy your challenge.JaneGShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094501834387622997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-55315908700499998232009-07-05T19:22:27.942-04:002009-07-05T19:22:27.942-04:00It looks like you're going to have a lot of fu...It looks like you're going to have a lot of fun with this one. Good luck!bermudaonionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726401178972099557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-12386476678158940942009-07-05T09:16:37.632-04:002009-07-05T09:16:37.632-04:00You know, if you want it badly enough, you can ord...You know, if you want it badly enough, you can order the book from the Amazon UK website. I know this isn't an issue with Jane Austen, but we've done that with all of the Harry Potter books so that we can read the original text (the US versions are "Americanized").Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04306275747304783618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-21693211097649901232009-07-05T05:24:32.476-04:002009-07-05T05:24:32.476-04:00This is where I have a confession to make - I just...This is where I have a confession to make - I just can't get on with Jane Austen at all, she leaves me totally cold (except perhaps for Northanger Abbey, but even then...)brideofthebookgodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522514562001253674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-71952544371510800512009-07-04T23:39:14.078-04:002009-07-04T23:39:14.078-04:00Love the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudic...Love the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. A little while ago my daughter and I thought about making a quilt for her room that reflected what she called her 'girly Jane Austen side and her angsty gothy teenage side', she also summed up her life as 'somedays are Jane Austen days and somedays are Bronte days'. Anyway we talked about a quilt that would have a black backgound but with flowers and embroidered on the quote about 'pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked', (hope I got that right), we never did get around to making that maybe we should. I love Austens letters, they are amongst my favourite Austen writings. <br />There are so many books out there that utilise Austens stories and characters. I was just in a bookshop this morning with my daughter and there was a whole shelf, Bell, commented; 'wow, up market fan fic.'<br />Totally get the joy of discovery in second hand book shops. And the Austen cookbook, what kind of recipies I am intrigued?<br />Do you think the dramatisations enhance the books? I liked Emma Thompson's version of Sense and Sensibility for that reason. I also really liked the BBC version of Elizabeth Gaskells North and South, for that reason also, maybe the rather attractive Richard Armitage had something to do with it. I saw from an earlier post that you are also a fan of that one. Anyway have fun with Austen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145452263098688113.post-18989303488279553112009-07-04T18:51:38.942-04:002009-07-04T18:51:38.942-04:00Love the Jane Austen cook book.... now I am thinki...Love the Jane Austen cook book.... now I am thinking I may need it... ahhhh.... maybe I can just look on line for Jane Austen recipes..... :)<br /><br />One Persons Journey Through a World of BooksSheila (Bookjourney)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05354184020340930630noreply@blogger.com