Enthusiasm

If you are a Proper Book Nerd (and we’re assuming you are), then you’re almost certainly hoping to find your fairy-tale style, happily-ever-after ending with a fellow Proper Book Nerd to match. Though we can’t promise you’ll find your bookend this year, we can offer something almost as good: a list of nerdily bookish love stories […]

From the genius that is Pride and Prejudice to the snark that makes up Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen is pretty much my literary hero. She’s smart, she’s funny, and she tells an amazing story—which is why I love reading/watching all the Jane Austen retellings I can get my hands on. (Lizzie Bennet Diaries, anyone?) Luckily, there are […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you write a contemporary YA novel that references Jane Austen, I’m going to want to read it. This rule also applies if your book is a science-fiction space opera or an alternative history novel taking place in the prehistoric era. Fact is, if you tell me you were […]

Home, as we all know, is where the books are. A few things they bring along with them: love, magic, romance, adventure, and mystery. Books, man, they do it all. This is why many wise authors understand that, to capture the full human experience, a novel should showcase the awe-inspiring wonder of reading, the world-opening […]