Tag: #janeausten

• 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