Jane Austen Addict Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, (Paperback)

from Kegsoccer

I really wanted to like this. I've started reading "Jane Austen sequels" and this is one of the books that kept popping up in my search. Obviously the premise of this book is a bit different then those books which are meant to be almost direct sequels to "Pride and Prejudice" or any of Austen's o...

from maggie1944

A quick read, perhaps best classified as chick-lit or a beach book. A modern young woman wakes up in the 1800s in England living out a Jane Austen story. The young woman knows a lot about this time and setting as she is, in modern times, addicted to Jane Austen's books. I enjoyed it as a quick re...

from DWWilkin

Watching Lost in Austen, the recent British television show, it was clear that a literary version had to be out there somewhere. This is not quite it, but it is close. Lost in Austen however was much better for some significant reasons that this author has allowed into her work. When reading the ...

from lalawe

A few months after a bad breakup, a woman wakes up in a Regency England - in a body that's not her own. Now, I've always had suspension of disbelief problems with "modern person goes into the past / into a fantasy world, etc" plots. Unlike many of these books, I found Courtney's (or Jane's - what...

from SandSing7

A great idea gone terribly wrong. The book was riddled with ridiculous scenes including an interview with a fortune teller, a semi-pornographic proposal, and a run-in with Jane Austen herself, where the main character not only acted like a stalker but chatted incessantly about movies of the futur...