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Lil’ Will, Miss Jane and Downton Abbey

Welcome to February, bookworms. We’re one month into the new year and this post represents the 12th time Lil’ Will and Miss Jane have graced the blog. A full year of living life with a bookish blogger has given them many things, except height. They still remain stubbornly small at action figure height. (At least [...]

A Year in Books, 2011

Once again, I’m participating in the 2nd annual End of the Year Book Survey, hosted by Jamie of The Perpetual Page-Turner. If you’ve been around for awhile, you might remember that I did this last year as well. I did tweak this year’s survey because I didn’t really feel like answering the blogging questions. But [...]

Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Sometimes you just have to wonder what Jane Austen would think if she ever had a glimpse of the passion and enthusiasm her books inspire these days, nearly two centuries after their publication. Austen herself never saw much fame or fortune from her novels, but nowadays, Austen-inspired spin-offs, sequels, prequels and other such creations fill [...]