My Jane Austen Summer Reading

One of the things that I love about summer is the weather is a little warmer and the days seem longer. One of the other things is kicking back in a lawn chair and soaking up a great book.

This summer, I have a project – a Jane Austen Project. I have a handful of books that I recently added to my collection. All related to Jane Austen and most fall into the spinoff category. Most of the books are shown above in the photo.

Here’s my summer reading list:

• A Jane Austen Education
• Dancing with Mr. Darcy
• The Phantom of Pemberley
• My Jane Austen Summer
• Jane and the Damned
• Lost in Austen
• Darcy’s Story
• Bespelling Jane Austen
• Pride & Prejudice Paper Dolls
• The Jane Austen Cookbook
• Tea with Jane Austen
• Sense & Sensibility Marvel Comic Series
• The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen

For more Jane Austen spinoff books, check out this Good Reads book shelf: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/jane-austen-spin-offs

That’s my Jane Austen summer.

Jane Austen comfort

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When I’m not feeling well or just in a funk, I usually turn to Jane Austen. I’ve been a fan of her’s for years and have read each of her novels over and over again.

In the past few years, the spin-offs created from her novels have been many – both in written form and movies. The latest zombie craze even spurred spin-offs of Pride & Prejudice. Tonight, I’m in one of those funks, all I feel like is curling up on the couch and watching a movie. No doubt, this will evolve into a marathon of Jane Austen movies and spin-offs like it always does.

Here are my top favorite spin-offs. I highly suggest checking them out:

1. Bride & Prejudice (2004): Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment. Fun, lively and good music.
2. Lost in Austen (2008 TV mini-series turned movie): Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she’s swapped places with Austen’s fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet. A fresh modern take on the world of Jane Austen – Wickem isn’t as bad as you thought!
3. Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001): A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary. Originally a book by a rave Jane Aussten fan, the character of Darcy was fashioned after Collin Firth’s role in the BBC TV adaptation of Pride & Prejudice – just marvelous that they actually got him to play the roll in this movie!

For more Jane Austen movie spin-offs visit here.

Amazon has a whole section dedicated to Jane Austen movies – here.