Win a copy of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
To celebrate the paperback publication of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler, we are giving away a copy of the new paperback edition of the novel. To be entered in the drawing, send your full name and mailing address and your Jane Austen Addict confession to austenblog AT gmail DOT com. How have you embarrassed yourself for Jane Austen? 
(And yes, this is open to readers outside the U.S.) ETA: entries due by Saturday, May 10, at 10 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.
Congratulations to the winners of last week’s Spring Book Giveaway contest: Rebecca W. won a copy of The Darcys Give a Ball by Elizabeth Newark; Vicki R. (aka Baja Janeite) won a copy of Emma and Knightley by Rachel Billington; Marybeth won a copy of The Watsons and Emma Watson by Joan Aiken; Mariflor won a copy of Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton; and Vicki K. won a copy of The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins. The winners all will receive notification e-mails shortly.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I can’t get enough of jane. she is my reason for keep on dreaming .
May 6th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Thank you very much!
May 7th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Once when I was a teenager, with too little pocket money and ambitions of collecting really good books for my own library, I shop lifted a Pride and Prejudice from the second hand market in Hyderabad!! Much mortifcation!
It was a lovely leather bound edition and I had gone with just enough money for the bus back home… I lusted after that book - I must have made 5 trips to the same street side vendor (who knew me from previous and subsequent visits). I hunched there and looked at it and felt it in my hands for a full 15 minutes and when I saw someone else show a marginal interest in it - I couldn’t stop myself. I just slipped it under my arm - very loose cotton top that hid the book - and walked off.
Three weeks later I went bacck - having put the money together - and paid off the vendor. He apparently had noticed me filching the book but since I went so often to the Sunday market, had been sure I would pay him.
So there you go - I chose to steal rather than let go of such a beautiful book. P&P has coloured most of my life - both romantically or otherwise. My early-onset career as a shoplifter came to a dead halt right at that moment!!