#Janeites💙📚
LightNews LightNews
joannemerriam.bsky.social
Aaaaaahhhhh it's happeninggggggg

💙📚 #BookSky #AetherAndEgo #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #RegencyEra #ExceptInSpace #Janeites #Austenites #romance #spacefantasy #steampunk #imcoolitscoolimtotallycalm
A screenshot of my author photo with this announcement on Instagram from Inanna Publications: We are incredibly excited to announce the fourth of our Fall 2026 releases. @joanne.merriam's speculative fiction book “Aether and Ego” comes out with Inanna Publications this fall. Joanne Merriam is a writer and poet from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She is the author of the poetry collection 'The Glaze from Breaking' and her poetry and fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and journals, including Astropoetica, The Baltimore Review, Escape Pod, Pank, Per Contra, Pictura, and Strange Horizons. Aether and Ego: It is autumn 1845, and Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering in the new Regency society aboard a massive generation ship. Aether and Ego is a steampunk retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the addition of space travel, dogs, and accidental death. Follow to stay up to date on preorder announcements!
February 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
milliebot.bsky.social
[·_·[] My 2026 bingo card was not prepared for US political events, but at least I have my books. Definitely impressed with my starting numbers. We'll see if the momentum holds.
#booksky 💙📚
A stack of books is in front of a white door. Black text at the top reads "January 2026 Books: 22 - Pages: 6,515 DNF: 1 - Library: 9" The books are: Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler Spy x Family v15 by Tatsuya Endo The Way of the Househusband v15 by Kousuke Oono Housecat Trouble by Mason Dickerson Housecat Trouble: Lost & Found by Mason Dickerson How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn Beetle & The Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne Dark Dance by Tanith Lee In Guns We Trust by William Kole A graphic showing @milliebot_reads's January 2026 reads from Storygraph. The books are: How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn - 1 star Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler - 4 stars W1ll1am by Mason Coile - 4 stars A True History of the United States by Daniel Sjursen - 4.5 stars The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson - 3 stars War Is A Racket by Smedley Butler - 3 stars Fight Oligarchy by Bernie Sanders - 3.5 stars The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba - 3 stars Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe - 3 stars In Guns We Trust by William Kole - 4 stars Positive Obsession by Susana M. Morris - 3.5 stars Pilgrim by Mitchell Luthi - 4.5 stars We Will Rise Again by various authors - 4 stars Dark Dance by Tanith Lee - 3 stars The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw - 3.5 stars Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - 3.5 stars The Clackity by Lora Senf - 3.5 stars Spy x Family v15 by Tatsuya Endo - 4 stars The Way of the Househusband v15 by Kousuke Oono - 4 stars Housecat Trouble by Mason Dickerson - 5 stars Housecat Trouble: Lost & Found by Mason Dickerson - 5 stars Beetle & The Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne - 5 stars
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #Janeites #nonfiction & #literarystudies
📚💙

1 of 3

Rave review of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney

archive.is/qRCLF
Hardback front cover of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
March 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #Janeites #JaneAusten #biography #nonfiction #booklovers
📚💙

The Best Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Books.

anhistorianabouttown.com/jane-austen-...
September 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #literaryfiction #Janeites #classicfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙

Classic Appreciation: Will we ever know the real Jane Austen?

Rather than projecting our own concerns, we should look at what she was reading and how she engaged with the ideas of her time.

archive.is/TzhRX
Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.
May 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
marywyrd.bsky.social
RARE & OLD BOOKS FOR SALE

> handmade (and often hand-painted) books from the Tern Press
> 9 items of interest to Janeites / Jane Austen fans
> Arthur Ransome

All in these two catalogues from Jonathan Frost Rare Books Ltd

frostrarebooks.com/catalogues/b...

frostrarebooks.com/catalogues/b...

💙📚
An Arthur Ransome Assortment | Jonathan Frost Rare Books
frostrarebooks.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky fun for #JaneAusten #Janeites #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
📚💙

Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Can You Ace This Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz? (Gift Article)
This 12-question challenge will test your knowledge of all things Austen.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #Janeites #booklovers 📚💙

Two essays, two distinct approaches to Jane Austen, her work & impact:

Living Through Turbulent Times with Jane Austen: How her far-ranging novels carried me through eight years, two births, one death, and a changing world. By Rachel Cohen

archive.is/FTG5K
Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen
May 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #classicfiction #literaryfiction #Janeites #womenwriters #JaneAusten 📚💙

The NYT Book Club Podcast: On Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

open.spotify.com/episode/3Ycl...
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #literaryfiction #classicfiction #booklovers 📚💙

Five myths about Jane Austen (with apologies to #Janeites who never believed them anyway). Cont'd

wapo.st/41zRbmE
Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
notebookwitch.bsky.social
Attention all #Janeites of 📚💙 the Boston Austen Book Club will be celebrating the #JaneAusten #Sestercentennial (despite a late start to the year) with 5 meetings in 2025! Save the Date for the following, all online, with further details to follow...
Blue and white floral background with the words "2025 Save the Dates / Boston Austen Book Club / Austen turns 250"
June 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
ank2025.bsky.social
1 Day to 250: Blue Badges 2/2

@janeaustenshouse.bsky.social boasts historical markers not only for Jane Austen but for all her heroines (and Mr. Darcy), acknowledging that Austen brought her beloved characters to life for generations of readers! 💙📚 #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #Janeites
Round blue marker on red brick: “Emma Woodhouse [Emma] was formed here (with very little to distress or vex her).” Round blue marker on red brick: “Fanny Price [Mansfield Park] crept into the world here, ‘exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice.” Even the badge tries not to be the center of attention! Round blue marker on red brick: “Catherine Morland [Northanger Abbey] was ‘in training for a heroine’ here.” Round blue marker on red brick: “Anne Elliot [Persuasion], with her ‘elegance of mind and sweetness of character,’ was crafted here.” Accidental but appropriate that the badge for the undervalued Anne is in shadow!
December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
ank2025.bsky.social
1 Day to 250: Blue Badges 1/2
@janeaustenshouse.bsky.social boasts historical markers not only for Jane Austen but for all her heroines (and Mr. Darcy), acknowledging that Austen brought her beloved characters to life for generations of readers! 💙📚 #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #Janeites
Round blue marker on red brick: “Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Novelist, Lived in this house 1809-1817” Round blue marker on red brick: “Elinor Dashwood [Sense and Sensibility] learnt to be rational and restrained here.” Round blue marker on red brick: “Marianne Dashwood [Sense and Sensibility] learnt to be ‘sensible and clever; but eager in everything’ here.”
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #literarystudies #booklovers 📚💙

A delight for all #Janeites and highly recommended: Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Keymer

bobbygw.com/2025/02/27/j...
Paperback front cover of Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Keymer Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.
February 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ank2025.bsky.social
Happy 250th, Jane Austen! 1/2

It’s the big day and we’ve finally arrived at our destination, @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social in Chawton! #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #Janeites 💙📚
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
bobbygw.bsky.social
#booksky for #womenwriters #literaryfiction #classicfiction #Janeites #booklovers 📚💙

Classic Appreciation: On Emma (from a new Vintage Books edition forthcoming in July). By Jennifer Egan, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist.

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
First edition of Emma, in three volumes, by Jane Austen.
June 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
ank2025.bsky.social
Happy 250th, Jane Austen! 2/2
As we enter the dining room @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social , we might not see the chair in the corner, but at that small table Austen wrote 6 novels that made us see ourselves. #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #Janeites💙📚
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
ank2025.bsky.social
Standing in the room where it happened at @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social
#JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten #Janeites #literature 💙📚
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM