Happy Birthday Jane Austen Lets Celebrate with Free eBooks!

Today December 16th is Jane Austen’s 235th birthday! Happy Birthday Jane!

Sourcebooks, the world’s leading publisher of Jane Austen fiction, is offering a unique deal to readers who want to celebrate Jane by reading special editions of all six of Austen’s beloved novels in a 21st century format.

Special e-book editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park will be available for free for one day only. These celebratory editions include the full novels, plus the legendary color illustrations of the Brock brothers, originally created to accompany the books in 1898.

In addition to the Jane Austen classics, readers can also enjoy these bestselling Austen-inspired novels. The following bestselling e-books will be free on December 16th in honor of her birthday:

Eliza’s Daughter by Joan Aiken
The Darcys & the Bingleys by Marsha Altman
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins
The Other Mr. Darcy by Monica Fairview
Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Amanda Grange
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan
Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy by Abigail Reynolds

Available wherever eBooks are sold. If you own a reader this is the perfect time to snag yourself a collection of Jane Austen free eBooks.

UPDATE:

First off let me sincerely apologize for all the confusion regarding the free offer of Jane Austen special edition titles as well as the 10 Austen inspired novels. Please extend this apology to your readers and followers as well.

We have been trying to fix the problem all morning. It takes a lot of cooperation from different parties to make the offer happen and it unfortunately it took some extra time to iron out the kinks.

Let me tell you know that iBooks and Google books currently has everything correct.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony are currently working to get their prices adjusted. They should be correct shortly.  Sourcebooks.com will also have our books and the illustrated versions available for free within the next hour!

Because of this confusion we want to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday an extra day! This offer will be good tomorrow as well.

Again I am sorry for the confusion and thank you for being patient!

Amazon

Book Review: GEORGETTE HEYER'S REGENCY WORLD by Jennifer Kloester

I know what you are thinking; Lizzy is not the typical non-fiction reader. I must admit this book is the ultimate guide to anything related to Georgette Heyer and the era known as The Regency period. It is a very complicated time period that is one of the most intimidating in my mind is right up there with Eleanor of Aquitaine. During the regency in England there were a large variety of social classes that are very complicated to understand. The most alluring factor of the Regency to readers is that is was a time when manners were most important and Jane Austen broke through to deliver to the masses her eloquent vision of a proper romance.

From the ups and downs of the social latter all the way down to a who’s who of the regency this read has it all. This will satisfy any Regency thirst for knowledge. You might as well call this book the regency lovers dictionary. For a newbie to this period I found the first section “Up and Down the Social Latter” very helpful, it cleared up many of the things I did not understand that were the norms of the time.

The “At home in Town and Country” section was a real treat. Not only did it cover all of the key Regency locations it even covered what the Vauxhall Gardens served for its popular dinner service. In case you were wondering customers had a choice between the best chicken and ham in town, which ever took your fancy. The sections went on farther to a mans world, the gentle sex, on the town, the pleasure haunts of London, the fashionable resorts, getting about, what to wear, shopping, eat drink and be merry, the sporting life, business, military, and finally the most important the who’s who in the regency. The best feature of this book is not just the beautiful pictures that accompany the sections. The fact that each one of Heyer’s books is referenced and tied into locations, events, dresses, and anything else that was relevant in the books.

3/5 I liked it and enjoyed the read but it made me sad to realize how little I knew of this time period and Georgette Heyer’s books. I really need to read more of her books I loved “Arabella”. I would have to recommend this book to the Heyer and regency enthusiast. This would be an excellent wealth of regency knowledge for an aspiring author.

PG-Rating 
FTC: Publisher sent me this book, thank you Sourcebooks!
Amazon Georgette Heyer's Regency World

Mailbox Mondays

Goodwill
Emma by Jane Austen
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir (UK ARC)
Eleanore of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Georgiana by Amanda Foreman
Update 12:26 PM
Annette Vallon by James Tipton (ARC)
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer (ARC)


Publishers
Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Vanitha Sankaran

"The daughter of a papermaker in a small French village in the year 1320—mute from birth and forced to shun normal society—young Auda finds solace and escape in the wonder of the written word. Believed to be cursed by those who embrace ignorance and superstition, Auda's very survival is a testament to the strength of her spirit. But this is an age of Inquisition and intolerance, when difference and defiance are punishable "sins" and new ideas are considered damnable heresy. When darkness descends upon her world, Auda—newly grown to womanhood—is forced to flee, setting off on a remarkable quest to discover love and a new sense of self . . . and to reclaim her heritage and the small glory of her father's art".

Mailbox Mondays

I figured I should jump on the Mailbox Mondays band wagon. I have never done one before but I find I am in need to do so now that the books have started to roll in. I am going to add a few that I recently got in the mail that I have not mentioned before. To catch up here they are,

"Receive me Falling" by Erika Robuck, "Fortunes of War" by Gordon Zuckerman and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Update: Just got the mail and 2 more books showed up. One for the giveaway that I am hosting, but more on that later. Also received Leslie Carroll's "Royal Affairs", which I am really excited to read. I just can not resist a juicy affair. Thank you Leslie!




Did anyone else get any good books this week?

Book Store Adventures in Portland

I just had to share my latest bookstore adventures with everyone. On Friday I managed to snag some really good books at descent prices. A few were a little higher than I wanted to pay but I had to have them. This is what I got: The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly, The Last Great Dance on Earth by Sandra Gulland, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, The Mask of The Black Tulip, The Deception of The Emerald Ring All by Lauren Willig, The last Boleyn, The Poyson Garden, and The Twylight Tower, all by Karen Harper. Wow that is a lot more now that I have written them all. Thank You mom for the wonderful early birthday presents, man that woman has great taste.

I am just on a roll lately and I went to Borders on Sunday. I ended up getting "Courtesan" by Diane Haeger, and the most beautiful Jane Austen Note Cards. The cards are just blank in a pretty little box, which I could not pass up. You can buy them on Amazon. What I could not believe is that they had two signed copies of A Rose for the Crown and Daughter of York both by Anne Easter Smith. I wanted them so bad I could taste it, but I could not eat the 17.95$ a piece price tag. My husband said "where you going with all those books? and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I just can not help myself sometimes and have to be regulated on. Did anyone else manage to snag anything good this week?