On one of those rare moments of watching TV, i saw 'Becoming Jane' - from the cricket match onwards, on Sunday. I stopped watching when the 'elopement' part was being aired though. Somehow, i did not feel right. That cannot be Austen, i thought and made a note to myself to check it up in wiki. Well, now that i have checked wiki, it looks like i could have watched it till the end:( *groan* The chemistry between Austen and LeFroy was great, although i would have prefered someone else (similar-looking to Austen) playing Austen to Anne Hathaway.
Never mind, i can still give this a try (apart from being lucky again with the movie being aired again on TV) - read the book, Becoming Jane by Jon Spence on which the movie is based. The book is based on the letters Jane wrote to her sister Cassandra. Now this is one other project that i should take up - there are FAR too many books out there that are Austen-related. I know there are innumerable sequels to Austens' works and also fiction that connect to Austen. What i would like to do is do some internet research on both the varieties, and pick up the most near-to-Austen sequel of P&P, and pick up a couple of the latter. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen is one book that i wanted to buy - but could not get a copy of. Today i checked the ratings in amazon (7 1-star ratings though out of 56 reveiws, i do not like that) and not sure if i should still buy it. Probably not. If you are a Jane Austen fan/addict(!!!), do let me know your favorite Austen-based work, and i will look that up. Thanks in advance.
My immediate action item is to read (courtesy internet) her letters to Cassandra and derive my own meaning:D
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