To mommy dearest,
To my dearest mother,
To my mother Lady Catherine,
I trust that this missive shall find you in good spirits tolerable health. I understand that the recent marriage of Miss Bennet to my cousin […]

To Mrs Bennet, 
My dear mother, I can hardly write such words to you; however, upon this festive occasion, I shall honor your motherly graces with a few lines of prose duly praising your efforts in my growth and […]

New York Times bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is often considered […]

A cold day, sickness consuming the poor charity school girls. Well, almost all of the girls. Those special girls reading their Psalms, robotic and unliving unaffected. When I read this portion of Jane Slayre , it […]

Oh, how I have missed zombies–the lifeless stare, the slow, cumbersome movements, the way they are ended by beheading. Jane Slayre takes me back to the book that started my downward spiral into the dark depths of […]

The color red gets a bad rap. 
It must have been a terrifying experience for ten-year-old Jane Eyre (or Jane Slayre in this case) to be confined to the eerie Red Room of Gateshead.  Locked-in with no escape.  Can […]

If you blurted out “Darcy!” then you might be a Darcyholic, and there’s a site for that appropriately called Darcyholic Diversions. There author Barbara Tiller Cole invites readers, writers, and fans to share […]

The thick green volume lived on my dusty book shelf. Scrawled in gold letters, JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte. I promised my best friend that I would read it, some day. As she promised me, the same thing with […]

The winner of our autographed, specially artistically “doodled”, gold seal embossed copy of Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons is: 

 
Ohlydia2001
Congratulations! We hope you enjoy the books, and thank […]

  Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.  - W. H. Auden
Blatant evil can easily be spotted within the pages of zombie and vampire books.  
But sometimes evil is vague and blurred.  
Although we […]

Women bear names not their own. 
We take up our names.
Names of praise,
Names of shame,
Names smeared
Like scarlet letters.
Women bear names not their own.
We wear them
Like tattered shrouds
Because we […]

Happy Friday!
Yesterday, we planned some of the most fabulous, fun, fantastic things for DJABC! I am so excited for what we have coming up in May and June and July and August…okay, fine, pretty much the rest of […]

Back in January we posted our proposed reading list for the year. Since then we have made one change due to poor editing (and possibly poor writing), received a few suggestions, and found some intriguing books […]

Welcoming back Vera Nazarian to answer questions posed by our members! And be sure to check out Vera Nazrian’s guest post for a chance to win a very special autographed copy of  Northanger Abbey and Angels and […]