Another Jane Austen January
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
- Jane Austen
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Mark got me some of the piano sheet music to recent Jane Austen movies for Christmas. I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down and learn it yet, but hopefully sometime this year. They are definitely classics. You’re the one who got me started on them actually, and I have read all the books now. Love you Miss!
Wow, this is such a lovely picture. Makes me want to curl up with a book in my own window seat (in my imagination…). Thanks for sharing this lovely pic.
I have only 6 more books left of Janette Oke’s for me to read then I think I might try one of Jane Austins. What kind of books are they are they love stories or mysteries of what?
Oh, I think you would really enjoy them, Heidi! Her books are classic novels written in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s and set in the English countryside. There are only 6 completed novels because she died at the young age of 42 (which is now believed to be from Addison’s disease)… you’ve probably heard of her most popular ones: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. She also wrote Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Her books are very relational (which I love), often highlighting the bonds between sisters, family & friends, and of course revolving around a romance of either unrequited or forbidden love (a key plot to a truly good novel
) I am so easily drawn in by the beautiful language and her descriptions of her characters and the countryside. The movies are good, too, but if you want to be transported to Nineteenth Century England for a week or two… her books are the best way to go! Let me know if you want to borrow any of them. I also have some good biographies of Jane Austen and a book of all of her letters that is quite interesting. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!