If you're unfamiliar with Wickham's Diary, you can read my review here.
Be sure and check out the many activities going on around the world today and this week as we commemorate the publication of one of the most treasured novels of all time. One event that has particularly interested me is the live Jane Austen readathon going on in Bath, England today. If you have a moment, stop by their live feed to enjoy the reading of Pride and Prejudice by a host of fans and authors. Some orators are dressing up in Regency attire, which has been fun to see as well.
Have a great week, and enjoy the plethora of all things Jane as the world celebrates!
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Other blogs are also giving away some great anniversary prizes as we celebrate.
Be sure to check them out too! Here's the link: P&P Anniversary Blog Hop
Be sure to check them out too! Here's the link: P&P Anniversary Blog Hop
Like many people, I think I first became a fan of P&P after watching one of the movies. (In my case, it was the film with Colin Firth as Darcy!) That inspired me to read P&P, and then all of Jane Austen's books.
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DeleteMy introduction was the same as well-- the 1995 P&P. Colin Firth will forever be my favorite Darcy!
I became a P&P fan when my 12th grade English teacher showed us a clip of the Olivier film version. We only saw about 10 minutes of the movie, but I loved the story and needed to get my hands on a copy. I'm just glad there have been better adaptations released since then. ;)
ReplyDeleteI watched the P&P version with Colin Firth on TV when I was in high school - yeah I'm that old. I promptly found a copy and devoured the book.
ReplyDeleteHey, I gotcha beat in the age category! I was done with high school, college AND was married when P&P 1995 came out!
DeleteI'm almost done with the book now, reading it for a AP English class right now. What I love about it is Mr.Darcy and Elizabeth. They're fantastic characters!!
ReplyDeleteMy mother bought the book for my eighth birthday and we read it aloud together each night until it was done. I fell in love with the story and I still have that well used copy of the book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Sophia:
DeleteI'm impressed you understood the story at age eight! Very impressive!
I watched the new movie with Keira Knightley and fell in love with it. So, I read the book, watched the mini series and a bunch of Jane Austen-inspired movies.
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I really enjoyed reading Mr. Darcy's diary and would love to read Wickham's.
ReplyDeleteThanks for having the giveaway!
I fell in love with P&P at an early age-- the romance was what first caught my eye, but now I really appreciate the nuances and layers to the story! Plus it is endlessly quotable!
ReplyDeleteyes, read it in school
ReplyDeleteAfter seeing P & P with Colin Firth! Had to get my hands on the book!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
I started watching P & P because the time period then I fell in love with the characters. Thank you for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteYou've assembled an awesome prize pack. I should be ashamed to admit that I have not read Wickham's Diary, nor seen the 2005 version. So glad you are in on the P&P celebration. I found you through the blog hop, which I seem to be on the mission of hopping to ever blog listed! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteI love P&P! I remember the first time I watched the 1995 version of the movie I did not realize that it was a 5 hour movie and I would up watching it until around 3 in the morning because I had to find out how the story ended. After that I was hooked. I have seen several versions and even introduced my British Literature Student teacher to the 2003 "Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy" version when I was in High School.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read this book to young I think, Not enough appreciation for her style of writing, but when I picked it up quite a few years later when I was older I enjoyed it very much :)
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My grandmother bought me a copy of Pride and Prejudice at Target, of all places. It was the real deal, not an abridged kid one. I still have it!
ReplyDeleteI've been a fan ever since I was 12, when I found myself caught in front of the BBC miniseries, utterly incapable of leaving despite my professed hatred at the time for chick flicks and classics. I read the book a few days later, and I've loved the story and author ever since. :)
ReplyDeleteI picked up a paperback of all of JA's novels many (many) years ago in a wonderful old (independent) bookstore near my apartment. P&P was the first one I read over a summer and loved it. Then came the miniseries and movies and I was hooked all over again.
ReplyDeleteI read it some years ago when I found it on a list of great romances.
ReplyDeleteOne of my most beloved treasures is a paperback copy of P & P that I got a long, long time ago that was printed well before my time. Pages yellowed, edged in red and well read. Then you add the young Mr. Darcy that was Colin Firth... be still my heart! I was a romantic then and am one now and will always be, thanks in no small way to authors like Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and Barbara Cartland.
ReplyDeleteI've been a fan of all the Jane Austen books for forever...but I especially love the movie!
ReplyDeleteI love Pride and Predjuice...I've seen the movie probably 3 times
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't remember how I first became a fan of Pride and Prejudice, but I do remember borrowing the 1940 movie version from the library just about every month when I was in my early teens! I imagine I read the book shortly after discovering that film, but truly can't remember when I first read it...
ReplyDeleteThe first time I ever saw P&P was when I was on bedrest with a pregnancy. A lady from church dropped off a stack of movies from Jane Austen books. Hooked! Then my daughters got old enough to watch them with me. Hooked!
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