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It’s time for another Bloggy Giveaways Carnival, and I’m hosting a series of Jane Austen-themed giveaways. If that’s right up your proverbial alley, subscribe to my feed to find out about additional contests this week!
(My second giveaway, two Jane Austen audio books, and my third giveaway, the A&E Pride and Prejudice 10th Anniversary Edition DVD Set are posted now, too.)
Tony, my contact at Sourcebooks, has sent me children’s books to review; being a Jane Austen fan, I couldn’t help but notice the extensive collection of Austen sequels that they publish. As a matter of fact, the folks at Sourcebooks are such Austen fans that they created the site Austenfans.com out of love and admiration for Jane Austen’s life and works.
I not only received two Austen sequels, but two to giveaway to a lucky reader, too!
First, is The Pemberley Chronicles: “The weddings are over, the saga begins.”
Second, is Women of Pemberley: “The Women of Pemberley follows the lives of five women, some from the beloved works of Jane Austen, some new from the author’s imagination, into a new era of post industrial revolution England, at the start of the Victorian Age.”
How do you win?
Leave a comment to enter, telling us something about why you love Jane and which book is your favorite!
Winner will be chosen randomly from comments on Friday. This contest is open to both bloggers and non-bloggers, but please use a valid email address when leaving your comment in order to be contacted.
I love Pride and Prejudice-I just love the language and the wittiness of the banter between Darcy and Lizzie!
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July 29th, 2008 at 1:47 am
I love Mansfield Park, I love the fact that she had a life long love of writing, she wote as a child and continued into adulthood.
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July 29th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Pride & Prejudice is my favorite book of all time as it is, and I just love how I get lost in her books! It is also fun to find other Jane fans (such as my Mother in law and sister in law) and we share books and watch movies together and discuss. Love it!
Steph
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July 29th, 2008 at 7:25 am
i love jane austen! did you watch the jane austen season that came on masterpiece a few months ago? absolutely adored it. i love P&P and S&S the best.
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July 29th, 2008 at 7:37 am
I love P&P! And I’m so excited to read these sequels! I love the strong women characters Austen creates!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Pride and Prejudice is my fave. I’m hoping to get started on Sense and Sensiblity soon, though. Such beautiful visual imagery.
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July 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Oh my goodness! “Talented writer” doesn’t even begin to describe Jane Austen. It seems lacking some how… I love Pride and Prejudice.
Thank you for offering this give-away. 
July 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Pride and Prejudice is my fav. The language is what I love–the rhythm of it and how politely everyone spoke.
smilingsal55[at]yahoo[dot]com
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July 29th, 2008 at 8:55 am
My daughter and I both love Jane Austen. In fact we are having a Jane Austen Birthday party for my daughter who will be 15. She even sewed her own Pride and Prejudice dress to wear to it. She is currently doing a homeschool study on her and her books. This would make a lovely addition to our Jane Austen library.
Blessings,
Kim
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July 29th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite Jane Austen book.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:24 am
There are so many reasons why I love Jane Austen. I think that one of the biggest reasons is that she has a wonderful writing style.
My favorite book is Persuasion.
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July 29th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Sounds interesting! Please enter me.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I loved Pride and Predjudice. I love how I was entirely swept away into this other world when I read it.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Jane Austin was such an independant women, just love her books.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I just love Pride & Prejudice. While the confab between Lizzie and Mr. Darcy is quite enjoyable, Mrs. Bennet just makes me laugh as she goes squawking about, trying to set her daughters up in a good life.
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I think my favorite book is P&P, with Emma and Persuasion coming in a close second. Reading Jane Austen takes me back to a simpler time, and I so enjoy how she captures human nature so humorously.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I would love to read these books! I didn’t even know about them! Thanks for the giveaway.
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July 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Thank you for bringing these books to my attention Dawn! My DD and I are such huge fans of Jane Austen’s literature. We’ll surely buy these books even if we’re not one of the lucky winners. In fact I already added them to my Amazon wish list.
I have to say Pride and Prejudice is my favorite because it was the first one I read and fell instantly in love. I love the richness of the characters and language. So many lively personalities to love. Jane’s independent side is very alive in her books too which I’ve always loved.
Blessings,
Melissa
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July 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Her writing is timeless! I love P & P especially when Darcy says, “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” I love it every.single.time. Great giveaway.
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July 29th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I love all Jane Austen’s books… I think I’m just in love with that Era. And her sense of humor is great! My favorite book would be Emma!
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July 29th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I was so excited, I tried to sub again and it wouldn’t let me! I’m actually at a disadvantage here - cuz I haven’t read any of her books (for shame, I know). That’s why I need them. Her movies are my favorite ever. I love the romance and wit of the English language back in her time. Such poetry!
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July 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Persuasion, although you can’t get a better character then Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Predjudice.
Thanks!
Jennifer
pavier@telus.net
July 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. Mr. Darcy makes me sigh.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
They’re great classics! I love Pride and Prejudice.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I just love them cuz they make me think of my sister, who is ALL about Jane!! These would make a wonderful surprise for her!
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July 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
What DON’T I love about Jane Austen. I’ve been trying to get my hands on any book that might remotely resemble a sequel of sorts to an Austen book.
As for my favorite? That would be a tough one. I really do love them all, but as of late, my favorite would have to be Persausion.
Well, today it is.
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July 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Pride and Prejudice is my very favorite. I love the way she uses language. I love herstrong female characters. I love the humor. I love how she managed to capture time periods and personalities.
I love that Jane Austen is one of those rare authors through whose books you can really find yourself transported to another time and place.
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July 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Austin is so REAL! Her characters are sweet and so full of detail. My very favorite character is Fanny of Mansfield Park, which is also my favorite book. The way she portrays the “false” lover is amazing–she had me fooled along with everyone but down-to-earth and true-hearted Fanny!
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July 29th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Seriously … is there anyone out there who doesn’t LOVE Mr Darcy?
I love Jane Austin for her strong female characters. I just reread Persuasion - loved it …again!
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
sagirl2(at)gmail(dot)com
July 29th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I love these stories. I have the movies but not the books.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
My daughter is the Jane Austen fan in our house. She is a romantic at heart and I love sitting and watching the movies with her. The characters are just so real, you can’t help but relate to them, despite the difference in era and setting. My most recent favourite has got to be Persuassion.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
You want me to choose a favorite?? Impossible. But I’d have to go with the first, Pride & Predjudice. Her books are real and timeless themes. LOVE her.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I love Jane Austen!! My mother in law just took all us ‘girls’ on a trip to Europe and you know Bath had to be a stop to go to the Jane Austen sites there! I think my favorite Jane Austen book for today is Pride and Prejudice but Persuasion is a close second.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
What a fabulous giveaway! I love the way Jane Austen turns a phrase giving a pinch of humor with a bite of wry. She is the mistress of tongue in cheek.
My favorite is probably Persuasion, which I know is untypical P & P being most often picked. But Persuasion to me was about the sweetness of second chances and later seasons of life. When dreams you thought were past are now realized.
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July 29th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
That is so great!
I would love to check these out. I am ashamed to say that I’ve only read one that I really remember, Northanger Abbey, and it was good.
I’m going to read P&P this month with our new bookclub at http://www.5minutesforbooks.com
July 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I love jane because she is the kind of person I’d be friends with! I love pride and prejudice!
July 29th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I love Jane Austen’s style of books there amazing! I love Pride and Prejudice and would love to win these book! I love anything from the Victorian era!
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I love her books as I can not put them down…
July 29th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
My dd is a Jane Austin fan. She loves, loves Pride and Predjudice.
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July 30th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I adore Jane Austen! I own P&P and S&S, and my fav P&P is the one with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle! My daughter and I have watched it over and over. Emma is another good read. I bought another author’s version of what happens following the wedding, which was captivating, and helped to quench my thirst to know more about their lives together! I so enjoy this author! I only wish she were still around to write more for her readers!
July 30th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Thanks for the great giveaway!!! Please include me!
gerijones64@hotmail.com
P&P Jane is a woman to aspire to.
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July 30th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Ha! I just watched Pride & Prejudice today. The Kiera Knightly version. Jane Austen movies are about the only chick flicks my husband will watch with me.
dbstout[at]juno[dot]com
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July 30th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I love Lizzie’s strength in Pride and Prejudice!
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July 30th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Sense and Sensibility is my all time favourite! I just love the FEEL of Austen’s writing (does that make sense?)… her books transport me to another time.
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July 30th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Come by my blog sometime and type “Austen” into my search box, and you will see! LOL
I guess the main thing that I love about Jane is that her books are truly timeless. They made sense 100 years ago, and they’re just as moving now. And after rereading one of her books my English improves dramatically.
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Jane is my long lost twin! i would LOVE to win these!!!! i can’t express that enough.
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I love anything related to Jane Austen!
Please do enter me…
Thanks!
Angie
quillysilly(at)yahoo(dot)com
July 30th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Her heroins are so whitty and clever. Thats what I love the most.
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July 30th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I love how well spoken her heroines are and my fav book is Mansfield Park (but not that awful movie).
July 30th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I love how empowered some of her heroines are, particularly Elizabeth Bennett- which is also the heroine of my favorite book- Pride and Prejudice. Thanks!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I just love the language used in the books! My favorite is Emma! Thank you for the giveaway!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I like Pride and Prejudice best! Thanks for the chance!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
*drool* I love the humor that Jane Austen writes with. That subtle sarcasm is brilliant! My favorite book……It’s a toss-up between P&P and Persuasion. This is an awesome contest - thanks!
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July 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Who could not love Jane? I like how she has independant women in there who think about more than just boys. I have no idea what my favorite is. I like them all! I do really enjoy Emma though. thanks for the opportunity to win!
July 30th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Pride and Prejudice - just takes me to a more romatice slower paced time.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I love Jane because she was a ground-breaker and a powerful woman writer when women didn’t have much power. My favorite book of hers in Persuasion.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I love Austen, especially her sharp sense of wit. People who don’t read her books don’t realize how funny she was and how great she was at characterization.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
i heart jane’s independence . . . her A-mazing writing ability!
i heart persuasion!
thanks, kristen
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July 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
My favorite is Pride and Prejudice - so fun and fiesty and clever!
July 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Pride and Prejudice, hands down. I read it at least once a year! Austen was so witty and real with her observations; she was believable.
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July 30th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I love her subtle humor, it is laugh out loud funny after you think about it a bit.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, by far. I think that Jane Austen makes her characters live outside of the scenes they are written in. We know the characters well enough to know how they’d react in other situations. They just really live.
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July 30th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
P&P for sure. I like Emma too, but P&P is just more my style.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:03 am
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite because when i first read it i was so swept away by the story and couldn’t put it down and wanted to find out what was going to happen next. It also opened doors to all the other wonderful Jane austen books.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:07 am
I would love to win these for my neice…she really has a love for Jane Austen…so much so that I am thinking that I should pick up some of these myself.
owatz (AT) telus (DOT) net
July 31st, 2008 at 12:46 am
Pride and Prejudice is definitely my favorite of Jane Austen’s work. Jane Austen does a masterful job of transporting us to that time and place. Thanks for the contest!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:20 am
Pride and Prejudice or maybe Sense & Sensibility…hmm…
Thanks for a great giveaway!
kathy
eller@ilovejesus.net
http://www.handfulofellers.blogspot.com
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July 31st, 2008 at 1:40 am
I love how Austen’s subtle humor. I like to think that I am like that.
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I love Pride and Prejuidice. I love the rules of society, the fleeting glances and I absolutely love the story of Darcy and Lizzie.
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I am a new lover of Jane Austen. I intentionally ignored the classics in highschool (I was WAY too good for the classics). Now, I’m trying to read every Jane Austen book I can get my hands on. Love her.
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:10 am
I’m sad to admit, but I don’t think I’ve read any of her books. I’d really love to though and it’s been on my list for a long time. This is a great opportunity!
Thanks so much!!
Michele(CA)
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July 31st, 2008 at 7:57 am
My daughters read her books. That’s why I love Jane. They also like the old films of her books.
Kathy
bigfamily8 (at) yahoo (dot) com
July 31st, 2008 at 9:27 am
Love Jane Austen. Love Pride and Prejudice. I really started liking Jane Austen’s stories more while watching her made for TV movies on PBS with my husband. My girls watch them with us and they just love the drama and the costumes.
Thank you for this opportunity. My girls would love this.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:46 am
I love Pride & Prejudice! I’m excited to hear about the sequels!
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:08 am
I’ve never read Jane just watched the movies. I would love to get into the books though!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:14 am
P&P is my favorite. I love Austen’s writing style.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:06 am
I haven’t had the chance to read any of her books yet, but I would love to start!
July 31st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I liked Persuasion best. I like Jane because of the way she skewered the polite society at the time.
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July 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Pride & Prejudice is my favourite- I love the way Austen writes the banter between characters.
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July 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Love Austen because she’s so witty — still funny today. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, possibly because it was the first one I ever read as a teenage.
shaunjoy(at)juno(dot)com
July 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Jane was one of the first successful female authors and her books have stood the test of time.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I love Jane’s work. Just the fact that her books have stood the test of time, and probably will continue to do so is amazing. I love how funny her work is, while at other times she has me in tears.
AS for my favorite work? Hard to say, but I’ll go with “Pride and Prejudice”, like many others. Who couldn’t love Mr. Darcy?
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July 31st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Pride and Prejudice has touched many lives. For a while I was the only one who had never read the book.
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July 31st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I love Emma! Ok, I love them all;)
I love how Jane is able to captivate audiences of all ages in the first chapter, and keep you intrigued to the end!
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July 31st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Jane Austen was a master at creating meaningful dialog with superb subtilty. I dream of being that tactful.
P&P is my favorite.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Jane was ridiculed a lot of being a female writer and her was not taken seriously. She kept writing in spite of that. That’s why I love her.
alexandra dot hancock at gmail dot com
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July 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
pride and prejudice is also my favorite it’s just so amazing i love everything about it! my favorite thing about jane is that no matter what she stood up for herself even if she was a female writer and she didn’t let anything get in the way of her writing i find that to be extremely amazing, her life was somewhat sad though
July 31st, 2008 at 3:05 pm