The Calico Critic

My fellow Janeites and I are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. The media is buzzing this week,...

I don't talk about it too much here on The Calico Critic , but like many Americans, I struggle with maintaining a healthy weight.  Las...

From the back cover: Jane Austen is now what she never was in life, and what she would have been horrified to become—a literary celebrity...

A life of royalty seems so attractive...until you're invited to live it... Smart, ambitious, and career driven, Bronte Talbot started ...

From the back cover: Preventing his burning fighter from crashing into a neighborhood, Navy Commander Josh Logan ejects...too late.  ...

In association with the recent release of  Friends: The Complete Series Blu-Ray Box Set , Partners Hub is hosting a giveaway of a specia...

The holidays are almost upon us, and with our schedules heating up while the weather cools down, many of us may have less time for casual r...

Lace is a thing like hope. It is beauty; it is grace. It was never meant to destroy so many lives. The mad passion for forbidden lace has i...

Raised with four older stepcousins in a conservative, churchgoing family, Frannie Price teeters on the brink of adolescence in the summer o...

Welcome to the next stop on the Jane Austen Giveaway Hop, sponsored by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and vvb32reads .   Throughout this hop ...

Hey ladies! Has life got you harried and needing a little break?  Let me invite you to Women of Faith!  If you're able to get away o...

Summarizing thoughts from Goodreads.com: A life altering event inextricably links a fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Bennet to Fitzwilliam Darc...