by Carol Shields
I read this book as part of the Dead Writers Society's Genre Fiction Challenge for June 2016 and the Literary Birthday Challenge for 2016. At this point I am wishing I chose the other book for the genre challenge. I don't know what to say here besides this entire book read as someone who seemed to t...
I was drawn to Carol Shields' Jane Austin, A Life because I admire Shields' work as a novelist and because I am in the clutches of a severe attack of Austenitis. It hits me annually, sometimes accompanied by a far less pleasurable bout of gout. Thankfully the gout went away, but the Austen fever lin...
Amazing that so short a book could be so unsatisfactory for so many reasons. Just a few examples:Shields insists all throughout the book that Austen "longed" all her life to be married, and that any happiness she managed to find was because she learned to live with disappointment. (Shields also ment...
Short, concise, but fun and written with sparkle.
A very enjoyable and engaging biography of Jane Austen. I never fully realized how isolated Jane Austen was from any community of artists. She was fortunate to have a supportive family who read and encouraged her work and sympathized with her setbacks and frustrations, but as an artist, she was very...
An interesting look into the life of Jane Austen. Shields doesn't bother with making Austen's like rediculously romantic but, intead, looks to the novels to draw out questions and educated guesses about what happened in a life that is so ill-recorded.What I didn't like about this book is that it's q...
I read this book really fast. It was easy to read, and very interesting. The book contains a lot of information that was already familiar to me. The book takes a lot of time to go through the novels of Austen.I would like to give 3 and half stars, but it is not possible.
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