Entries Tagged as ‘Books I Love! and Books that I love-not so much!’

June 23, 2008

If I had met Jane…

I already did a post the other day about the book Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler, but there’s something that still just really bothers me about that book. There’s a scene where Courtney/Jane has an encounter with Jane Austen, herself. The dialogue that follows just doesn’t get it [...]

June 21, 2008

My Own “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict”

I just finished reading Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler. It has a clever premise: A modern woman is cheated on by her fiance, numbs her pain with vodka and Jane Austen classics, and finds herself transported (via a form of New Age-like time travel) back to Jane Austen’s time. [...]

April 29, 2008

Favorite Books

*Update:
Apparently I have shy bloggers…that’s ok!  I guess I’ll just have to read some more Jane!
I have told my husband that if I die before he does, I want to be buried in the cheapest coffin there is wearing a t-shirt with one of my life’s mottos: “Life’s too short for cheap [...]