Austenland by Shannon Hale

    I have been very bad. I have been caught up in reading and such that I have forgotten to blog about them. Since I've read a couple books I'm going to start blogging about them with my favorite one first which is Austenland by Shannon Hale. There is a movie and a book which came out years ago so you might have seen or read Austenland already. I saw a preview for the movie and thought it looked so good so I looked it up and saw there was a book so I decided to read it first before I watch the movie. I have to be honest and say I haven't read many Jane Austen books, I know I know, that needs to change.

    I loved the book so much. I'm glad how the character Jane was not like a crazy single woman who fell in love with every guy she meets. Ok she might have a little bit of the falling for every guy she meets but she is also an independent woman who isn't looking for a guy to complete her. The author could have wrote the character Jane as a woman who throws herself at everyone and can't do anything for herself. I'm just glad she wasn't written like such.

    The ending of course was my favorite part. I had thought the book was going a different direction and I was surprised by the ending. I want to go into more detail and explain every little thing I loved about it but if you haven't read it or seen it I don't want to ruin it for you.



    This is the overview for the book:

    "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 Pride and Prejudice, 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's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.

   

    Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen--or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It'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?"

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Curious Reader xo

 

 

 

Have you seen the movie? I haven't yet so I was wondering if it's a good movie.