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10 August 2004

Open source “Pride and Prejudice” audiobook project

Filed under: Links — Mags @ 11:35 pm

Ryan Gabbard writes to tell us that he is seeking volunteers to read and record chapters of Pride and Prejudice for an open-source audiobook that one could download to an iPod or similar digital audio device.

I and a couple others are planning to attempt (hopefully successfully!) to create an mp3 audiobook for Pride and Prejudice by having volunteers read one or more chapters. I though some readers of your blog might be interested in helping out. Here’s the post proposing the project: http://audhumla.org/archives/2004/08/03/distributed-creation-of-audiobooks/

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Samantha Bloom to play Charlotte Lucas?

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 1:51 am

KeiraWeb.com reports a rumor (and we stress it is a rumor at this time) that Samantha Bloom, Orlando Bloom’s older sister, will be playing Charlotte Lucas in the Working Title production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

In other P&P3 news, a pic of Matthew Macfadyen in Darcy kit that we haven’t seen before.

ETA: Rumor debunked.

EDIT 4 Feb. 2005: We just received word that Samantha Bloom is indeed in the film as “The Rosings Governess” (we presume meaning Miss DeBourgh’s companion).

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‘The Jane Austen Book Club’ convinces readers to try Jane Austen

Filed under: Paraliterature — Mags @ 1:33 am

An article in the Record (Stockton, California) quotes members of book clubs who found The Jane Austen Book Club sufficiently interesting that they are considering reading Jane Austen’s novels.

Morada resident Margaret Tracy said she’s also unimpressed with Austen, but she’s found the Fowler novel so appealing that she’s thinking of giving Austen another shot. “Everybody does say Austen is a wonderful author. Maybe I should spend a little more time and effort on the classics. Perhaps I read them superficially.”

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So what was Jane Austen really like?

It’s clear that she was very witty, Fowler said, and had a very sharp eye for human frailty. But would she have been good company?

“She would see through you pretty readily, but that’s about as far as you can go,” she said. “You can make her whatever you want: I have six characters in my book, and they all make her what they want.”

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