false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225981737m/5516525.jpg 5516525 5 Laurie Viera Rigler’s debut novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, was a hit with fans and critics, and a BookSense and Los Angeles Times bestseller. Its open-to-interpretation ending left readers begging for more-and RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT delivers. While Confessions took twenty-first-century free spirit Courtney Stone into the social confines of Jane Austen’s era, Rude Awakenings tells the parallel story of Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s daughter from Regency England who inexplicably awakens in Courtney’s overly wired and morally confused L.A. life. For Jane, the modern world is not wholly disagreeable. Her apartment may be smaller than a dressing closet, but it is fitted up with lights that burn without candles, machines that wash bodies and clothes, and a glossy rectangle in which tiny people perform scenes from her favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. Granted, if she wants to travel she may have to drive a formidable metal carriage, but she may do so without a chaperone. And oh, what places she goes! Public assemblies that pulsate with pounding music. Unbound hair and unrestricted clothing. The freedom to say what she wants when she wants-even to men without a proper introduction. Privacy, independence, even the power to earn her own money. But how is she to fathom her employer’s incomprehensible dictates about “syncing a BlackBerry” and “rolling a call”? How can she navigate a world in which entire publications are devoted to brides but flirting and kissing and even the sexual act itself raise no matrimonial expectations? Even more bewildering are the memories that are not her own. And the friend named Wes, who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home. It’s enough to make her wonder if she would be better off in her own time, where at least the rules are clear-that is, if returning is even an option. 5666016 25 6 2009 Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict total:296|5:35|4:92|3:114|2:47|1:8| 296 987 636 112 4 1 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:34:12 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:35:03 -0700 2009
This book is the story of how Jane fares when she wa...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:44:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 07:09:30 -0700 2009 1 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, this book offers the Courtney Stone/Jane Mansfield story from Jane's point of view in Courtney's 21st Century life, where she is very confused by just about everything.

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The reader on the CD wasn't as good as the previous book's reader. All of her American accents sounded the ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:40:34 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 10:37:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 06:01:34 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 06:18:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 02 12:59:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 06:25:51 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 12:59:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 15:29:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 18:28:54 -0700 2009 I became hooked on time travel stories watching Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Then I read Jude Devereux’s Knight in Shining Armor and fell so in love with the characters and improbable plot that I began to actively seek out time travel novels. I discovered from reading...more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 20:28:11 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:14:49 -0700 2009 I was also a bit surpri...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:48:25 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:21:36 -0700 2009 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. In that book, Courtney Stone, 2009 Jane Austen addict, is mysteriously transported back in time to 1813 as a English gentlewoman living in a lovely manor home in the Somerset countryside. In this book, Jane Mansfield, the 19t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 11:58:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:56:13 -0700 2009 1 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, but that's still not saying much. I did enjoy the writing style and the dialogue, as I did with the other book, however. Laurie Viera Rigler is good at writing what the thoughts of a nineteenth-century gentleman's daughter might be. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 13:53:34 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 13:59:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 14:15:10 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 17:25:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 13:45:14 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 09:44:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 20:33:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 18:25:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 12:44:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 13:57:03 -0700 2009 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. This time, we get to see what happened to Jane Mansfield while the 21st century Courtney Stone is occupying her body back in 1813. Jane is transported to Courtney's LA life, where living is much more fast-paced than her days a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:30:57 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:30:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5516525