AustenBlog...she's everywhere

4 July 2004

More Keira on Lizzy

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 5:25 pm

Keira Knightley is doing the press junkets for KING ARTHUR, which gives journalists the opportunity to chat about her upcoming role as Elizabeth Bennet.

From the San Bernardino County Sun:

Don’t expect to see much of that in the movie Knightley’s about to make. It’s an adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Which brings up an interesting pattern: So far, in her short career, she’s played a soccer kid, a colonial-era spitfire, a kicking Pict and, next, a proper regency-era lady. Is she trying to become …

“… The complete exemplar of British culture?” Knightley finishes the question. “I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s pretty good, isn’t it? But I’m trying to think of what I can possibly do next. Drink a lot of beer, I suppose.”

Summer reading

Filed under: Jane in the News, Paraliterature — Mags @ 5:06 pm

The Guardian asked “writers, critics and celebrities” about their summer reading lists. Tracy Chevalier, the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (which, coincidentally, is on Your Editorial Director’s summer reading list) will be indulging in some Jane:

Also Northanger Abbey (Penguin), the only Jane Austen I haven’t read and that I’ve been saving for a treat. As a companion to that, I’m going to read The Jane Austen Book Club (Marian Wood) by Karen Joy Fowler, a lightweight novel that’s on the US bestseller lists.

We’d love to hear what you think of NA when you’ve read it, Tracy!

Jane Austen Book Club No. 4 on Booksense

Filed under: Paraliterature — Mags @ 5:00 pm

The Booksense Bestseller List, based on sales at 350 independent book stores across the U.S., has listed The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler as No. 4 on its Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Here is a review from MetroWest Daily News:

Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary” simply borrowed the plot and tone of “Pride and Prejudice.” Fowler’s approach gets at Austen’s heart. As with Austen, everything that’s important in this book is beneath the surface.

 

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License