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Mad About Austen: The One That Started It All

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Thursday, 26 July 2012. The One That Started It All. I think it's appropriate for my first blog post to be about the thing that started this obsession in the first place. About 15 years ago someone showed me the 1995 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Since then I have read P&P several times and watched the 1980 and 2005 versions, Lost in Austen with it's P&P characters, and I've even seen a few clips of the 1940 version (Darcy is a ladies' man! He is so stiff and unlikeable in the first half....

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Mad About Austen: I wonder what Jane would think?

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Thursday, 2 August 2012. I wonder what Jane would think? I do wonder sometimes what Jane Austen would think about what has become of her novels. She really knew no success from them in her short life. Now, movies and tv adaptations are made regularly, and people everywhere are taking her work and making it into all sorts of other things. (Check out my Pinterest. For some of these! Usually I'm not a fan of modern adaptations. Something I've been watching recently has changed my mind a little though.

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First Page Books: The Rise of the Book Trailer

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A place for expressing my love for all things books. Thursday, 9 August 2012. The Rise of the Book Trailer. OK at the risk of sounding totally out of touch with 21. Century book culture, I hereby announce I have never read an ebook and I don’t own an ereader. Yes, yes I know, where have I been? With the seeming decline in physical bookshops the opportunity for publishers to reach readers and market their wares is disappearing. Book trailers have started to fill that space. They vary in quality and th...

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First Page Books: Book Recycling

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A place for expressing my love for all things books. Sunday, 12 August 2012. What happens to all those millions of books worldwide which people don't want to read anymore? One of my favourites and easily the most beautiful examples, involves an unknown artist in Edinburgh who used books to create a series of sculptures. With literary themes. They were left anonymously with attached thankyou notes explaining the artist's work. Updated 16/08 : this is the article Mysterious Paper Sculptures. Header Image f...

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Mad About Austen: July 2012

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Monday, 30 July 2012. I am half agony, half hope. 1995-96 were very good years for Austen adaptations. Six adaptations were made in that time including my beloved P&P I wrote about in my first post. After reading P&P I started reading through her other novels. I watched Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility and Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma and read through their originals voraciously. But I didn't know anything about Persuasion until I saw this. And I fell in love with Amanda Root and Anne Eliot. I think it's...

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Mad About Austen: I am half agony, half hope.

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Monday, 30 July 2012. I am half agony, half hope. 1995-96 were very good years for Austen adaptations. Six adaptations were made in that time including my beloved P&P I wrote about in my first post. After reading P&P I started reading through her other novels. I watched Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility and Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma and read through their originals voraciously. But I didn't know anything about Persuasion until I saw this. And I fell in love with Amanda Root and Anne Eliot. Georgian Gre...

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Mad About Austen: Hanging out at Hartfield

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Monday, 6 August 2012. Hanging out at Hartfield. I've posted a couple of my older Austen film favourites and I thought I should post about one of the newer adaptations that I adore. Source: Jane Austen Film Club. As a side note, did we all know that both Jonny Lee Miller and Blake Ritson have played the role of Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park? So there it is, I think my love is plain for all to see. I thoroughly enjoy watching this adaptation and watch it whenever I get the chance! A Book Lover's Guide.

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First Page Books: July 2012

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A place for expressing my love for all things books. Tuesday, 31 July 2012. I thought it appropriate as this is the ‘First Page Book’ blog to make my first ever post about first novels read as a child. Yes it’s a post about firsts! Some of us started reading ‘chapter books’ at the quite early age of 5 or 6. Little Golden Books and Dr Seuss featured as popular first reads. Enid Blyton also featured prominently from Famous Five and The Magic Faraway Tree to Tales of Brave Adventure. Novels aside, our first...

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First Page Books: November 2013

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A place for expressing my love for all things books. Sunday, 17 November 2013. Which brings me to a new social media site called Riffle. This is a Pinterest-like site for books with each title displaying a cover. Unfortunately being a U.S creation there are only American editions but for this book jacket nerd there is great pleasure in making visual the lists of books I've read. If you're thinking of joining up you can find me under LPRob :). Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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First Page Books: November 2012

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A place for expressing my love for all things books. Wednesday, 28 November 2012. I bought an ereader this week. Now, depending on your individual attitude towards new reading technology and the iconic nature of the traditional format, you will have thought, "So, which one? Or (with corresponding gasp of horror) "Why? Until very recently I would have placed myself firmly in the "Why? I love the buildings. I’m not going to use. 8221;…. I went with the Kindle…. Yes yes I know but it&#82...Links to this post.