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Austen Tattler: News and Gossip around the Blogosphere
“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Jane Austen around the blogosphere for the week of Febru… more →
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Ten Books Juniors Need
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Compiled by the Fairfield Books staff, these are our top ten books for junior readers aged 8-11. See … more →
Day 333 November 29
wrote 1 month ago: “Miss Golden, who had concealed herself in the switchboard room before the offices closed for … more →
The Scream
wrote 1 month ago: Aiken, Joan. The Scream. New York: Macmillan Children’s Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0330397032 Reade … more →
A Necklace of Raindrops
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wrote 2 months ago: Some years ago Daughter begged a copy of Joan Aiken’s A Necklace of Raindrops from my friend P … more →
Joan Aiken and Joe Abercrombie
wrote 5 months ago: Currently alternating between reading Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold and Joan Aiken … more →
Joan Aiken as homeschooler
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wrote 7 months ago: This post briefly reviews Lizza Aiken, “Growing Up with Joan Aiken: A Daughter’s View … more →
Curl up with a classic
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wrote 10 months ago: I don’t know what it is, but every time the seasons start to change, all I want to do is pull … more →
Austen Tattler: News and Gossip around the Blogosphere
wrote 11 months ago: “All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne … more →
Dido Twite
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wrote 11 months ago: ‘Never heard of her’, said Daughter as she passed my laptop, but I won’t disown he … more →
The Sunday Salon Review: Mansfield Park Revisited, by Joan Aiken
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wrote 11 months ago: When a book written twenty five years ago is reissued as confidently as Mansfield Park Revisited: A … more →
Joan Aiken's The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
wrote 1 year ago: What a delightful surprise these were! One of my favorite childhood books is Joan Aiken’s The … more →
#126 ~ Mansfield Park Revisited
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wrote 1 year ago: Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment by Joan Aiken I first read Mansfield Park in m … more →
The Sunday Salon: Review of Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken
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wrote 1 year ago: As to my own progenitors, I held only the vaguest and scantiest notion. My mother, I was given to un … more →
Austen-esque Books in the Queue for November
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wrote 1 year ago: The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in … more →
Mansfield Park Revisited: A Review
wrote 1 year ago: Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment is a re-release of a Joan Aiken novel that was … more →
the wolves of willoughby chase
wrote 1 year ago: ‘Oh what is it? Where are we?’ she exclaimed before she could stop herself. ‘No ne … more →
Mansfield Park Sequels: Mansfield Park Revisited: Is Fanny Price a Funny Girl? Day 15 Give-away!
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wrote 1 year ago: THE SEQUELS A recent review at the venerable on-line periodical Publisher’s Weekly of the re-i … more →
It's Arthur
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wrote 1 year ago: Will I give up my subconscious avoidance of books on Arthur now? I don’t know, but congratulat … more →
The Watsons and Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken
wrote 1 year ago: Jane Austen wrote the untitled fragment that was later called The Watsons in 1803-5, and it was publ … more →
