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Defining the Genre: Gothic Romance

by Keira 09.26.2011

Gothic romance is a genre you can’t find all too easily today. It was a popular genre a few decades ago and lovers of this romance sub-genre will have to troll secondhand bookstores to find titles. Classics of this genre are novels such as Wuthering Heights and Scarlet Letter. Well known authors of Gothic romance/horror [...]

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Review: Austenland by Shannon Hale

by Keira 08.05.2011

Do you hide your Austen movie DVDs so nobody will know you’re in love with Mr. Darcy? If so, then you might also benefit from a trip to Austenland. When Great-Aunt Carolyn dies, she leaves Jane Hayes with a nonrefundable reservation at an exclusive resort… that caters to women (and possibly men) with Austen fantasies. [...]

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Review: An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan

by Keira 07.23.2011

This novel is Pride and Prejudice retold from Darcy’s POV. He’s very wordy–can you imagine? His version is in three parts! Part one of the Mr. Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, An Assembly Such as This, and the only one I’ve read so far, details his time in Hertfordshire. It starts with the Meryton Assembly and ends [...]

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Get into Bed with Victoria Connelly (Mini Author Interview)

by Keira 07.11.2011

Keira: What is your ideal Jane Austen Convention? Victoria Connelly: I would love to attend a Jane Austen Convention and lots of my UK readers have told me they would too! I think I would love a gloriously romantic setting like Purley Hall in A Weekend with Mr. Darcy. I’ve always been in love with [...]

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20 Ways to Know You Read Too Much Romance

by Keira 06.19.2011

Before I begin, thanks Susan for your 5 tells – they’re hilarious! Now, when it comes to our favorite literature is it possible to ever read too much of it? What are some of the tells of overindulgence in romance? Let’s take a look! You Know You Read Too Much Romance When… Most of your [...]

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Review: The Truth about Mr. Darcy by Susan Adriani

by Keira 05.16.2011

What if Mr. Darcy confesses the truth about George Wickham before Elizabeth can get Wickham’s version of how things played out? That’s the question Susan Adriani proposes in this variation of Pride and Prejudice. Darcy’s impetuosity for breaking society rules is a little farfetched when you consider his staid background in Jane Austen’s original work, [...]

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Why Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are the Least Romantic Literary Couple of the Age

by Keira 05.10.2011

This post was written in response to the Miami Book Examiner’s defense of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley as one of the five most romantic literary couples. Point One: Great literary romances develop in a believable way. The Book Examiner would have you believe that because J.K. Rowling had seven books to write that the [...]

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Courtship in the Regency Period

by Guest Blogger 05.04.2011

by Susan Adriani, guest blogger and author of The Truth About Mr. Darcy If you think it’s difficult to find a man like Mr. Darcy in the twenty-first century, just imagine attempting it in the nineteenth, where propriety was demanded at all times—especially during courtship. In Regency England, a woman’s sole occupation was to attract [...]