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Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, To My Dear Mother Mrs. Bennet 4 days, 8 hours ago

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 […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Don’t Feed the Zombies 1 week, 1 day ago

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 […]
Sarah Jessica posted an update 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Spending a lot of time writing poetry, writing stories, and reading this month’s selection.
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Austen’s Influence 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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 […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, The Names We Bear 3 weeks ago

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 […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Oh These Footnotes! 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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 […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Help Make Our Blogiversary Awesome 1 month, 1 week ago

September 2012 will mark our 1 YEAR BLOGIVERSARY!
We are excited and elated and ecstatic for what has unfolded this year and will be coming up shortly. We have hosted numerous authors, writers, and loved every […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Aprils Showers Bringing April Awesomeness 1 month, 1 week ago

Who cares if April brings showers, rain clouds, or storms! Why?
For the Dark Jane Austen Book Club, we are beyond excited for all of the fun, festivities that April shall shower down up us (Mondays always make […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Looking to the Women Before Us 1 month, 1 week ago

I wish I never had to wear the label, Feminist.
But I wear it with all of its man-hating, Xena Warrior Princess stereotypes because I refuse to stand by and watch women being treated poorly.

Some days, it […]
Sarah Jessica posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago

This weekend has been uber SQUEE worthy! How’s your weekend? What good things are in store for your week?
Sarah Jessica posted a new activity comment 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In reply to: Beth Massey became a registered member View

Welcome to the DJABC! So glad to have you!
Sarah Jessica posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The really hard thing about great ideas is all of the hard work behind the idea….ready to hunker down.
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, The Coquettish Slave Released 1 month, 3 weeks ago

I refuse…
To play the coquettish slave,
Her fawnings, her painted eye
Relieving men their slight discomfort.
But what else is there?

I refuse…
To play the neglected wife, the woeful mother,
Her child […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, To Emma Sans Love 3 months ago

To Miss Emma Woodhouse,
As you are aware, the celebration of Valentine’s Day provides an opportunity for expressing our mutual profusions of affection and desire. However, my dear madame, I shall offer you no […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Here’s to a Well-Ordered World 3 months, 1 week ago

Every so often, I wish I lived in Regency England.
Secluded in a Jane Austen novel, protected by the structures of plot and story–this is the well-ordered world I dream up. Now, I would most certainly want to […]
Sarah Jessica posted an update 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Cranking up U2 to drown out the noise of everyday life for a moment.
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Emma’s World and Too Many Men 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I think Emma is the only Austen novel with far too many eligible men.
Perhaps, it is the over-saturation of testerone that causes me some discomfort; some annoyance with the whole novel. I admit Emma is not my […]
Sarah Jessica wrote a new post, Changing February’s Reading Selection 4 months ago

Today, we made one of the most difficult decisions any book club must make. We chose to change next month’s reading selection.
At first, we chose Adam Rann’s Emma and the Werewolves, and I purchased the book and […]
Sarah Jessica posted a new activity comment 4 months ago

In reply to: Mary C.M. Phillips posted an update Loved our hangout! So happy to meet ”face to face.” Thanks for including me and looking forward to another one. FYI, I just looked over the list for 2012 and I will […] View

Indeed! After further reading, we are switching February’s book to the original version of Emma. I’m all for supporting writers, but I cannot in good faith support this book. A copy of the original shouldn’t be hard to find either used or at the library.
Sarah Jessica posted an update 4 months ago

After several evenings reading ”Emma and Werewolves,” I cannot even recommend this book or support its purchase. I’m keenly disappointed in the editing and writing.
- Veronica Monique replied 4 months ago
  
  It is disappointing. I’m going to continue reading my copy until the bitter end just so I can give a complete rundown of the issues, but unless anyone just has to see it for themselves, I don’t recommend anyone buying this book in any format.
- Mary C.M. Phillips replied 4 months ago
  
  Would LOVE to re-read Emma with you. I have new copy (the Penquin clothbound one I had wanted for Christmas) and will happily crack in open this week.
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