‘The Jane Austen Handbook’ Teaches Regency-Era Life Skills, Step by Step
To survive navigating the polite society of Regency England, learn how to act appropriately, step-by-step, in ‘The Jane Austen Handbook.’
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Tag: Jane Austen
‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’
With the movie released in 2016, I was curious to see how good the book was.
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‘Library of Luminaries’: Illustrated Biographies of Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
Chronicle Books has begun a series of books about important people in history, in relatively short, beautifully illustrated volumes. Though not long, these books contain plenty of detail, painting pictures of the luminaries’ lives.
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14 Romantic Novels to Make Your Heart Beat Faster
Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day this weekend or not, romance is in the air. It’s cold outside, so it’s a great time of year to heat things up inside.
Continue ReadingEver, Jane: An Austen-Inspired Virtual Game
Imagine an online RPG held in the Regency era of Jane Austen. Check out this Kickstarter.
Continue ReadingStride and Prejudice: A Jane Austen Endless Runner
Celebrate the 200th birthday of Pride and Prejudice with this Jane-Austen-inspired endless runner app.
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Serious Comics, Part 6: Fancy Fiction
Most of the comics I’ve listed in my serious comics posts are ones that I would argue qualify as capital-L Literature. Of course, there are plenty of non-comics books that qualify as Literature already—and some of those have been turned into comics. Here are a handful of literature-based or literature-inspired comics that we think are worth reading. My recommendation: if you like these, then seek out the source texts as well.
Continue ReadingJane Austen Fight Club!
With readers celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice this week, it seemed a good time to share my favorite Austen mash-up: Jane Austen’s Fight Club.
Continue ReadingThis Week With The GeekMoms
This week, Jules‘ youngest turned 13. Now she is officially the parent of two teenage boys. Jules is also happy to announce that next week, Sunburst Award winning Canadian author Alyx Dellamonica will be co-hosting Jules’ Geeky Pleasures Radio Show. They plan to discuss her newest book Blue Magic, LGBT issues, and more. If you’ve […]
Continue ReadingReview: Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass
Love… Angst… Glamour… In the past, I have reviewed the promotional video for Shades of Milk and Honey and even interviewed Mary Robinette Kowal about her book, puppetry, and a wide variety of other things. But I had yet to …
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Discover Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
What better year than 2011, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, to learn a bit about Jane Austen’s life? Maybe you’ve seen a movie or two made from her books, or maybe you’ve even read the books themselves. But Jane Austen’s life had few things in common […]
Continue ReadingDiscover Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
What better year than 2011, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, to learn a bit about Jane Austen’s life? Maybe you’ve seen a movie or two made from her books, or maybe …
Continue ReadingJane Austen Meets Marvel Comics
Just because it is 200 year old romantic literature doesn’t mean it can’t be represented in a graphic novel. Recently, Marvel Comics put out several graphic novels with stories that don’t have superheroes. At least not in the traditional sense. Two of them are the Jane Austen novels, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. […]
Continue ReadingHappy 200th Anniversary, Sense and Sensibility!
This year, 2011, marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. It was the first of her six novels to be published, so this year starts the several-year celebration of the 200th anniversary of all of her novel publications (two novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously, in 1818). […]
Continue ReadingGeeks of Note: Mary Robinette Kowal
You may not have heard of her, but you’ve probably seen her work. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer. She has been working in the puppetry arts since 1989, but since then has also voiced audiobooks for the likes of …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Interviews Vampire Author Seth Grahame-Smith
To be more precise, Seth Grahame-Smith is not himself a vampire (to the best of my knowledge -I didn’t think to ask him that), but the best selling author of several mashups featuring zombies and vampires, Pride and Prejudice and …
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