Pride & Prejudice (2005) FAN Blog

[Updated: 12/24/14] 5 LUCKY WINNERS has been ANNOUNCED for JANE AUSTEN's FIRST LOVE HOLIDAY BLOG TOUR GIVEAWAY CONTEST here! Did you win? Congrats to all the winners!!! Jane Austen may well have based her character Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice on herself, for they are similar in many ways. Jane Austen was an extremely intelligent woman with a wonderful (and sometimes snarky) sense of humor, and was a master at delivering the ironic, barbed comment. So was Elizabeth Bennet. Jane was an independent thinker who loved taking long walks in the countryside. She was devoted to her family and friends, yet very particular when it came to opening her heart to others. Elizabeth Bennet was exactly the same!

I recently finished reading Jane Austen's First Love by Syrie James . A big thank you to her and to the wonderful Laurel Ann Nattress for sending me a copy to read and review here. This blog is participating the Jane Austen's First Love Holiday Blog Tour ( November 17th - 14th ), which I'll have author Syrie James stop by here and do a guest blog post next week on Tuesday, December 9th . It's been a while since I have an Austen author guest blog here, so I'm very excited and honored to be part of Syrie James ' holiday blog tour this month for her latest published novel. While I've mostly posted here P&P/Austen related Book Recommendations and Movie Reviews (you can read more of my film reviews in my Movies Blog ), this is actually my third book review (thus far...I previously reviewed Austenprose’s Laurel Ann Nattress ' Jane Austen Made Me Do It and Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy by Barbara Tiller Cole ) as Ashley (my fellow blo...