Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Unabridged
Author: Laurie Rigler
Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Date: August 2007
Length: 10 hours
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Overview

After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?

Selected Reviews

addict? Yes--masochist? No

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 2/5

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

by Lorna
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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addict? Yes--masochist? No

Written by Anonymous on September 17th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 2/5

Two stories here: one in the past and another in the present. Plot is innovative and promising. But our main character, Courtney, Jane Austen would have sliced and diced her! Had one been able to skim over all Courtney's streams of consciousness blabbity, blabbity, blabbity- perhaps the book would have been so so. But an audiobook affords no such pleasure. Listening to the blather has to be endured. I stuck with the book only because I love Jane Austen. The author's references to Austen's novels/characters, plus setting the past storyline in Austen's era kept me hooked. I was struck with the contrast of Austen's women and Courtney. Although modern woman is free of the sexist attitudes of the nineteenth century, our character Courtney embraced the role of 'gotta have a man, any man, to be happy'. And the end was a cop out. Do yourself a favor and resist this addiction!

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Written by Lorna from Silver Spring, MD on August 12th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Loved this book. Yes, I'm a Jane Austen addict and have often thought about what it would be like to live in those times. I wish the ending was a little stronger and gave us a smidge more info about our modern heroine.

Different and fun...

Written by Anonymous from Lincolnshire, IL on June 9th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I thought the plot very creative and fun. Also, funny to hear the reaction of a modern woman from LA as she deals with how to act with Jane Austen-era social expectations.

Selected Reviews

addict? Yes--masochist? No

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 2/5

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

by Lorna
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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