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Anybody going to Bouchercon in Raleigh, NC this fall? Here's my newspaper column
Once a bookseller, a bookstore owner, a book collector, a book scout, and a book reviewer, you are always a book lover. I’ve done all these things…selling books online and in a brick-and-mortar store in a...
Hey guys! I saw GONE GIRL the second day after its general release.
I've underlined my reasons in bold to pan the film version....anyone else have these problems?
Hollywood dirties up GONE GIRL the film with graphic scenes and lurid language..., October 7, 2014
By janebbooks
Gillian...
A review of GONE GIRL, the film.
Gillian Flynn’s novel, “Gone Girl” was published by Random House’s Crown Publishing Company in June 2012. It was her third novel and, according to the publisher, has sold more than two million copies in print and digital format.
A few days ago, on October 3...
Linda and others, I believe you may enjoy a blog by my Amazon Viner friend who did a collage of DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY showing Anna Maxwell Smith wearing the same green dress in some scenes....for my preview. Sorry I couldn't copy the collage for you....
This is so funny...
Pride has been subdued and prejudice overcome....again.
A Preview of DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY...the teleplay.
Elizabeth Bennet, the most successful disposal in marriage of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet of Longboum, is a heroine to be admired in the books of Miss Jane Austen who...
And now for DEATH IN PEMBERLEY, the television miniseries that we will in the fall on PBS MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
Death Comes to Pemberley (BBC) Review Date: 14th February 2014 Reviewed By: Marina Cano-Lopez, Edinburgh Napier University/University of...
And just in case you don't follow Libby on Goodreads or on her blog...here's her brilliant review of ORPHAN BLACK!
I lost another weekend… this time to an incredible binge-watchable series called Orphan Black. Many of you already know it, but I tend to be late to the party. Thankfully, though...
Declan Burke, my favorite journalist, book reviewer, and Irishman, interviews the best-selling author of THE EXPATS....talks about his new book THE ACCIDENT...and elicits this startling revelation about the new world of ebooks....
As an industry insider, Chris Pavone is more aware than most...
What a lovely eulogy, Linda....and what a lovely man your friend John Seigenthaler must have been.
Some folks are rather irreplaceable....aren't they?
Jane
Libby, at your recommendation, my daughter and I enjoyed the first two seasons of LUTHER. I was aware of Idris Elba when he received a Golden Globe for the first season of a British detective in LUTHER... And although I didn't see the Nelson Mandela film, pulled for an Oscar for him in this...
Readers of this discussion and ardent PBS viewers may be interested in the Emmy nominations announced yesterday, July 10, 2014. Here are the nominations for SHERLOCK which I just announced on an Amazon thread.
Readers of this discussion - BRITISH DETECTIVES IN FILM AND TELEVSION - may rejoice...
Image Credit: Robert Viglasky/Origin Pictures 2013/MASTERPIECE
Brace yourselves, Austenites: Here comes PBS’s Pride & Prejudice-inspired miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley The action in Pemberley—adapted from British author P.D. James’ best-seller—picks up six years after the events of Jane...
Maine....I need your mailing address. I won a copy of RESTLESS for Region 1 on E-bay....along with a copy of TOP OF THE LAKE. Both were Sundance (and BBC) and they were both in the very nice package of 2012 Sundance movies sent to Emmy voters. I have RESTLESS to send to you.
Jane
Here's the cover of the DVD of William Boyd's RESTLESS....some of us read the book and discussed it at another site. The DVD is about to be released on Amazon UK for Region 2 players only....I saw the teleplay on Sundance in December 2012. My review of the DVD was posted on this...
Hi...Libby. I just made a comment on Kathy's review of your new Georgia Davis...NOBODY'S CHILD... at another place on "our" blog. (I love your post about finding the title). Take a look.
I just ordered ToxiCity...the Georgia Davis prequel and decided to read a few reviews. This is not a...
Kathy, I've only read one Georgia Davis, P. I. novel...but this fourth one sounds really good:
A bloodstained note left for PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. Her sister, Savannah, is pregnant and begging for Georgia’s help. Determined to...
Well, I have to start reading Stuart Neville's RATLINES. Maine did a nice review of it for READ ME DEADLY some months ago...and my hardback copy is sitting on top of my TBR file. Stuart is a Facebook "friend" of mine and gave this link http://t.co/uucLgI5WVP for this press release:
The...
Sorry, Carolyn, it's the sc on the end of a post name! How are you?
You're the gal that was always looking for something for your dad to read, aren't you?
What are you two reading?
Jane
Welcome back, Lisa.
I talked to you briefly in comments on my review of John Connolly's THE WHITE ROAD. Are you still in South Carolina?
What are you reading?