Up for the Austen Challenge

My good buddy over at Stephanie’s Written Word is hosting a challenge right up my alley.  It is everything Jane Austen.  As my regular readers know, I LOVE Jane Austen and and anything Jane Austen-esque.  If you search through this blog, you will see numerous entries in this genre.  In fact, I thought I wouldn’t have anything to add to join this challenge.  But, of course, I was able to find some really good suggestions that I haven’t read/seen yet.  So, I’m in!!!

Here’s my Austen-plan:

1. Read two of Jane Austen’s original novels I haven’t read yet (I recently bought a compilation of Jane Austen’s seven novels, so I’m all set there).

• Persuasion
• Mansfield Park

2.  Read the ARC I picked up at BEA 2009 this year:

• Loving Mr. Darcy by Sharon Lathan

3.   Get Stephanie to lend me a copy of the this book after she posts her review:

• Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

4.   Check out Fuzzy Cricket’s ideas for Jane Austen (it sounds like it could become a series!!):

• And This is Our Life: Chrionicles of the Darcy Family Book 1 by Carey Bligard

5.  And, as a throwback to the years of choosing pick your own adventures books, I’m choosing a Jane Austen version:

• Lost in Austen-Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by  Emma Campbell Webster.

While that’s only a list of five, it’s six bullets!!  I will read these all before January 1, 2010.  Maybe I’ll even throw in a movie here or there!

I look forward to reading everyone else’s posts for this challenge.  I would love to add to my Jane Austen obsession.

Thanks, Stephanie!!