Tag: #janeausten

• Being Mary Bennet Review

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet. A less acknowledged truth is that Mary Bennet might be a better fit. For seventeen-year-old Marnie Barnes, who’s convinced she is the long-suffering protagonist of her life, this revelation comes at the end of a series of self-induced disasters that…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 22, 2026

  Reviews

  #rachelreads&reviews, #YA, #realisticfiction, #janeausten, #prideandprejudice, #retelling, #harpercollins, #j.c.peterson, #beingmarybennet, #contemporaryfiction, #homage, #marybennet

• Book of the Month: Emma

  Austen once wrote to her sister that Emma may be her most unlikable heroine she’s written, but my friend and I agree that may have been by olden day standards. At most she is spoiled and sheltered, but there are worst things rich people could be. In rereading Emma I have found Frank Churchill much…

  rachelbeerwoman

  August 20, 2025

  Book/Author Highlight

  #classics, #emma, #janeausten, #rachelreads&reviews

• Emmett Review

  Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly eighteen years in the world with very little to distress or vex him. Emmett knows he’s blessed. And because of that, he tries to give back: from charity work to letting…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 1, 2025

  Reviews

  #contemporaryromance, #emma, #emmett, #janeausten, #levacrosen, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #YA

• Book of the Month: Northanger Abbey

  So we didn’t quite finish the gothic satire within the spooky season month but we got there!

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 8, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #fiction, #gothicsatire, #janeausten, #northangerabbey, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction

• Feb Books

  All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr This poetry follows in the vein of Elizabeth Acevedo with short prose that pack a punch. Makes sense as Sawyerr thanks Acevedo for her mentorship and help in the acknowledgements. But Sawyerr’s work stands on its own as she tackles the difficult topic of assault and what…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 29, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #allthefightingparts, #avonbooks, #breatheandcountbackfromten, #contemporaryromance, #hannahvsawyerr, #harpercollins, #janeausten, #joyagoffney, #myweekwithhim, #nataliasylvester, #nikkipayne, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #retelling, #senseandsensibility, #sexliesandsensibility, #YA

• Book fo the Month: Mansfield Park

  Since we swiftly finished Shutter Island, the book club decided to go straight on to the next book, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Since Austenites the world over know the plot, I won’t repeat it but these are just general thoughts I have after reading it for the first time in years. I’ll admit I’m…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 29, 2024

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #janeausten, #mansfieldpark, #rachelreads&reviews

• November Books

  Hotel of Secrets by Diane Biller It is New Years Eve in Vienna and Maria Wallner is determined to rebbuild the Wallner Hotel, her family legacy even though her mother neglected it throughout the economic downturn. The hotel is her life and provides a distraction from romance which all of Vienna is waiting for her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 1, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #anitakunz, #ashleyherringblake, #avonromance, #berkleyromance, #blackstonepublishing, #chrisbohjalian, #chriscolfer, #coraline, #crystalsmithpaul, #dianebiller, #didyouhearaboutkittykarr, #historicalfiction, #iriskellydoesn’tdate, #janeausten, #justahat, #kilalaprincess, #manga, #memoir, #middlegrade, #midwives, #neilgainman, #nikkipayne, #nonfiction, #pantheonbooks, #prideandprotest, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #rikatanaka, #robinbenway, #skubiar, #strangerthanfanfiction, #theextraordinarysecretsofaprilmayandjune, #thelastblackunicorn, #tiffanyhaddish, #toyokopop, #womenshistory, #YA, hotelofsecrets

• Ranking The Rajes

  Dev brings a new spin to Austen’s famous works with her Rajes series, focusing on a formerly royal family settled in California as the hard-working new generation navigate social class nuances, chasing their dreams amid family pressures and expectations and of course, find love. For as Dev wrote in her author’s note for The Emma…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 4, 2022

  Rankings

  #contemporaryromance, #harpercollins, #incenseandsensibility, #janeausten, #pride, #prideprejudiceandotherflavors, #rachelreads&reviews, #recipeforpersuasion, #retelling, #romance, #sonalidev, #theemmaproject, #therajes

• Ranking Jane Austen

  Sense and Sensibility: This one is a bit from bias because I liked the pictures best in the kids version I read before getting into the real version. Even so, I enjoyed how it focuses on family as much as romance. And having Elinor and Marianna as protagonists offer two heroines for readers to relate…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 9, 2022

  Rankings

  #classics, #emma, #janeausten, #ladysusan, #mansfieldpark, #northangerabbey, #persuasion, #prideandprejudice, #rachelreads&reviews, #regency, #romance, #senseandsensability