What Ana Does

Audiobook : Austenland by Shannon Hale Ready by : Katherine Kellgren Genre : Chick Lit While strolling the shelves at the library, this audiobooks was sticking out a little and I remembered I had read they made this into a movie coming out this summer with Felicity, er, Keri Russell -- and that was all it took. Popped it into my bag. Kinda wished I hadn't. The idea is super. A women is so completely caught up in Mr. Darcy that no other man will ever stack up. So, her eccentric great-aunt bequeathes her a trip to the English countryside and a manor that recreates the Regency era, as a kind of therapy. I'm a Darcy-lovin'-gal myself, so I can get into this. And the manor is crawling with actors roll-playing to help "guests" believe they are in "Pride and Prejudice" or "Emma." But poor, pathetic Jane Hayes, cast as Ms. Jane Erstwhile niece to the residents of the Park, has a hard time relaxing into her role. It's all too fake. And i...

Every once in a while I get a quote so lodged up in my brain that it haunts me. I hear it over and over again, in the speakers voice, and I wrack my brain trying to come up with the name of the movie it comes from. The latest quotes was "...keen to be near you.." -- said in a low, melancholy British man. Of course, I assume Austen, but can't come up with the movie. I did more searching tonight and found the source of the quote. Hooray hooray! It is Austen. Well, movie Austen. From "Emma," the version with Gwyneth Paltrow. It's said by Mr. Knightly played by yummy Jeremy Northam. (Knightly being one of my fave Austen men, though the age difference grosses me out a little.) Watch the quote here  from YouTube. And from the script: Mr. Knightley, during the proposal scene: " So, I rode home anxious for your feelings, keen to be near you. I rode through the rain and I would ride through worse than that if I could just hear your voice telling me...