false 248483 5 <div><div>Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane&#8217;s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined. <br> <br>Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen&#8212;or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It&#8217;s all a game, Jane knows. And yet the longer she stays, the more her insecurities seem to fall away, and the more she wonders: Is she about to kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?</div></div> 1138972 book 2007 Austenland total:10230|5:1680|4:3524|3:3492|2:1222|1:312| 10230 35728 13369 3677 3 44 false false Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 11:07:33 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 11:08:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 24 false false Thu May 15 13:56:16 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 09:55:10 -0700 2008 I felt so entirely sneaky. I felt as if ...more...]]> 3 14 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 02 19:28:41 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 16:10:53 -0800 2007 I was so engrossed in this book I read it in an afternoon. If I were still a teenager, this would be the book I'd read over and over.

I hate this book.

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Why? I mean, if it was so engrossing that I couldn't put it down, why do I hate it? Because...more...]]> 4 7 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 15:28:53 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 09:59:26 -0700 2007 Pride and Prejudice. Didn't someone already write that book, you say? Banish thoughts of Bridget Jones from your mind, because Shannon Hale knows her Austen. A true knowledge an...more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 08:52:21 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 09:25:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 6 false false Wed Jan 02 10:25:53 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 18:32:10 -0800 2008
Jane is your typical thirty-year-old woman that harbors a secret Darcy/Colin F...more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 10:17:38 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 12:11:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 9 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 05:32:22 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 05:44:03 -0700 2007 I guess I just don't like chick lit, maybe. But the author of this book seems to have written most...more...]]> 2 6 true false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 08:20:46 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 11:53:45 -0800 2008 Austenland would break me out of it. I think Shannon Hale is a really gifted author, and her books for young adults and middle grade readers have been consistently excellent: smart, well-written, en...more...]]> 2 5 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 16:37:55 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 16:51:52 -0700 2007
But afterwards, I had a few churning thoughts about this lively narritive about the 30-some lass who is treated to a vacation at Elizabeth Bennett Fantasy Camp, where she and the other ladies get to wear empire-waisted dresses and be woo...more...]]> 1 5 false false Thu May 08 07:04:58 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 15:52:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 05:45:34 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 08:12:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 09:18:14 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 07:41:16 -0800 2008
This one immediately caught my attention, as I am a HUGE Jane Austen fan! When I first started reading, I thought some of Hale's character dialouge cheesy, as no where in Jane Au...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 18:48:36 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 21 17:30:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 06:22:48 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 06:29:56 -0700 2007 Jane Hayes is a woman in her early 30s who is obsessed by Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice." None of her many past relationships have worked out, and she is starting to feel that...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:14:59 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:16:52 -0800 2009 1
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....if the premise of the main character's vacation spot wasn't so disturbing. Imagine a place where grown peopl...more...]]> 5 2 true false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 01 16:07:05 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 07 22:27:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 2 true true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 20:05:42 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 09:24:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=248483