Tag: Jane Austen

A to Z April: R Reviews – Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler/Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

My books today are from two opposite genres.  The first is one of two books that draws on the obsession so many people have with Jane Austen books, both readers today as well as those when the books were written.  The second is a science fiction book, the first in a series that I got […]

Posted April 21, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 9 Comments

Austenland by Shannon Hale

So I guess I’m glad my sister in NYC ran out of things to read and called or texted and asked me for some ideas of books to get, because she bought Austenland and so I got to read her copy and loved it!  I’d wanted to read it for awhile.  Especially since I saw the […]

Posted June 14, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

The Hazards of Working at a Bookstore Vol. 1.4

This entry will actually be a combination of both last Saturday and last night. I just was too busy to get Saturday night’s done. But both nights I found several books, and some of these I’m listing are ones that I had seen before, but forgot about, so my plan of keeping track this way […]

Posted March 3, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 1 Comment