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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Playing it safe
Early in the Hallmark Channel’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the recently bereaved Dashwood women stand on the front steps of...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 26, 2024
Not loving it
A lot of Austen fans refer to our beloved author as “Jane.” I do not. Partly, that’s because I don’t want to participate in a somewhat...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 12, 2024
Something very shocking
In late 2022, I attended the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting, held that year in Victoria, British Columbia....
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 5, 2024
Digital fan
My “digital fan kit” arrived the day before I was set to join the first of two online book club meetings promoting the Hallmark Channel’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2024
Jane-talk, sponsored
Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2024
Happy New Loveyear
New Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2024
The Emma Trap
What is the nature of inspiration? How elastic is its definition? How large a distance can stretch between inspiration and inspiree...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2021
Hold the hot chocolate
I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2020
Have another one
Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2020
Man and snowmen
My husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 2, 2019
Happy Christmas to all!
Disaster averted! Collision avoided! Christmas catastrophe curtailed! Last month, as blog readers will recall, it appeared that the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2019
Christmas mystery solved
Last month, as blog readers will recall, we jointly pondered a Jane Austen Christmas mystery: why a made-for-TV movie named Sense,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 2019
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