Second Impressions and 2005’s Pride & Prejudice, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Back in 2005—a year that will live in infamy (Hurricane Katrina, anyone?)—I took my wife to a screening of Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice (also known as P&P‘05 and P&P3). My reaction to the film? Let’s just say my first …
We’re all talking about inspiration this month at Austen Variations. Or anti-inspiration, as the case may be. The inspiration for my books is usually a vivid idea for an emotionally intense scene. My next book is the exception. It started with a setting, or rather an anti-setting. You’ve heard of invasive species. Well, I’ve been …
The Cajun Cheesehead Critic loves 1980’s Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Here’s why. By Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. I’m just gonna lay it on the line: 1980’s “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice” is the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice ever filmed to date. Period. Oh, wait? You want proof? I …
Thank you for opening the third “window” on the Jane Austen Variations advent calendar! Today is the final chapter of my Pride and Prejudice based short story Mr. Collins’s Last Supper – the tongue-in-cheek tale of how that pompous clergyman learned (too late) why gluttony is considered one of the “seven deadly sins.” In case …
Thank you for opening the second “window” on the Jane Austen Variations advent calendar! Today’s prize is part two (of three) of my Pride and Prejudice based short story Mr. Collins’s Last Supper – the tongue-in-cheek tale of how that pompous clergyman learned (too late) why gluttony is considered one of the “seven deadly sins.” …
Do you remember the days – before the internet and everything digital – when a simple Advent Calendar added joy and excitement to the weeks leading up to Christmas? Every day you would open up a new window to discover something special inside. Well, we’re doing our own version of that Advent Calendar here at …
No, this is not really a post recommending reading side-by-side with another person, enjoyable as that is. This is about the concept of reading two books side-by-side. Not just any two books, though, but a pair especially made to go together: “companion” novels. Allow me to explain. I wrote my fifth novel, Miss Georgiana Darcy …
The Cajun Cheesehead Critic takes on 1995’s Pride & Prejudice, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Sorry for the long absence, but I had a spinal condition that prevented me from writing. Thanks to the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals, I’m back in the saddle and working on PERSUADED TO SAIL and ROSINGS PARK. …
It’s Halloween tomorrow, so I’m guessing you’ve already carved the pumpkins and stocked up for Trick or Treat. If you’re anything like me, that stash must be awfully tempting, so let me entice you to sneak away with a chocolate bar and think with some compassion of our Regency forebears, who had never tasted such …
Darcy and Elizabeth alone – That is my favorite story to write. Get rid of all the noise created by the secondary characters so that I can have a closer look at our favorite couple. In The Carriage Ride, Darcy and Lizzy meet by chance at The Bell, the coaching inn at Bromley (recommended by …
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