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| "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict takes the
familiar arena of Austen's empire-waist muslin, afternoon tea world
and tweaks it in a clever, cheeky way." -- St. Petersburg
Times -- 09/23/07 |
| "...quintessential fantasy fulfillment for any Jane
Austen aficionado ... ...It's a frothy page-turner..." --
Philadelphia Inquirer -- 09/02/07 |
| "From the opening page when Courtney Stone wakes up
in a strange bed to be confronted by a man and woman wearing clothes
that look as if they were "cast-offs from the Merchant-Ivory costume
department," the cleverness never stops..." -- Orlando
Sentinel -- 08/12/07 |
| "...a shine of originality..." -- St. Louis
Post-Dispatch – 08/05/07 |
| "...[Rigler] knows her Austen, and her heroine
Courtney Stone lives it." -- Boston Herald -- 08/02/07 |
| "A devotee of all things Austen… discovers the
reality of life in Regency England: rampant body odor, sexual and
class repression and a style of medical care involving
bloodletting.…Rigler does a perceptive job in contrasting the
different eras. Despite the smells, little in Courtney's current
lifestyle — including most of the men — can compete with the erotic
charge of dancing in a candlelit ballroom." -- USA Today --
08/02/07 |
| "...Read all the "sequels" and still want more? Try
this latest riff, in which a 21st-century gal dumps her cheating
fiance, only to wake up as an 18th-century lady with a romantic
crisis of her own. Moral: Compared to ours, Regency-era plumbing was
very bad, and its courtships very good." -- Good Housekeeping
-- 08/07 |
| "This is a delightful comic romp: Modern readers are
forced to consider life with chamber pots and without hand sanitizer
and cell phones. And imagine what those "curative" waters at Bath
really were like. Last, but not least, Jane Austen makes a cameo
appearance that is pure pleasure." -- The Times Picayune --
08/01/07 |
| "...You don’t have to be a rabid fan of Jane Austen
to enjoy Laurie Viera Rigler’s entertainingly funny love story. A
fun read that will thrust you into a world sans our modern luxuries.
Can a single, contemporary city gal make it in a world of chamber
pots and horse-drawn carriages?" -- Social Life Magazine --
07/09 |
| "...breezy debut novel... ...Fans of the
ever-expanding inspired-by-Austen-lit garden party will find a
winner here..." -- Publishers Weekly -- 06/04/07 |
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