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TadAD I agree with you regarding the book What Jane Austen Ate and Charles dickens Knew. It was delightful and very informative.

... to work, but to no avail. Another book that might be interesting to you if you're going to continue with Austen is What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. It was given to me as a gift and I started reading it after reading Pride and Prejudice. It makes reading ...

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist - The Facts of Life in 19th Century England by Daniel Pool

... I have a 2 book minimum for international mooches, except Canada. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears-gone What the Dickens-gone My Sister's Keeper A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian-gone The Sparrow-gone All are used from the thrift store.

#50 What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool A quick, interesting read. The early 19th century was filled with a bunch of silly society fools with a plethora of hyporcritical behaviours.

... A Countess Below Stairs this morning, I didn't really like it. Predictable and shallow I thought. Um... Reading What the Dickens? by Gregory Maquire, and then I'm to start on Kushiel's Dart I'm very excited about that last one, so I'm gonna get my other two read as fast as I ...

#27 the full title is What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens knew: from fox hunting to whist: The facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England

... the word 'fox' of which many are films by 20th C fox, or else published by Red Fox Older Fiction. However there is What Austin Ate featuring fox hunting. Hmmm Then we get Fantastic Mr. Fox I'll settle for that! Reading Fox brings up a few childrens books too. Again ...

The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern is fun if you read that series (and probably if you don't). What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew is fascinating either as a reference or just for reading through - what daily life was like in 1800's England. Most of my favorite obscure reference ...

How to Cook a Wolf, by M.F.K. Fisher Outfoxed, by Rita Mae Brown The Fox Woman, by Kij Johnson What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist, by Daniel Pool Cassandra by Christa Wolf

I finally finished What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Lots of interesting facts, but not a gripping book. I did buy a copy for my library for reference. Tonight I start Half-Blood Prince for the group reading and Northanger Abbey for an "I Love Jane Austen" group reading. Anyone ...

... else confused about what all these various positions mean? I'm going to have to go reread the chapter on the church in What Charles Dickens Knew and Jane Austen Ate.

... be a good idea as well. Blair is a small book, about 100 pages, so it's a quick read with suitable information. #23: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - Daniel Pool I've wanted to read this book for a few years, because I kept coming across it when searching information on Jan ...

46. What-the-dickens by Gregory Maguire.

... pg"> I finished Flush two nights ago. It got really good at the end and I couldn't put it down. Now I am reading What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. So far there are some interesting facts. I might need to buy it for a reference book. Book Count: 20 First Reads: 10 Rere ...

... Flush and really liked it. Can anyone recommend any of Carl Hiaasen's adult books? Kerian, I have starting What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. So far it is pretty interesting. I have read all of Austen's books but only a few of Dickens's. It includes information for ...

Compski, whenever you read What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, I would love to hear what you think of it. I have been very curious about that book. :)

... good. It was about a man who lost his site at three and had a chance to get it back again. Tonight I am going to start What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, How Many Miles to Babylon?, or Flush.

... The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin, Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas Basbanes (whose books I love!), What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pillar of Fire and At Canaan's Edge both by Taylor Bran ...

... the library on George Eliot, but haven't started writing them all down yet. Also, before all of this I started reading: What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, but I haven't finished it yet, with everything else in between.

Nickelini - have you read What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens knew; It's not bad - and actually quite good on economics and estate law.

... of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 4. Beatrix Potter: a journal - Beatrix Potter 13/03 5. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - Daniel Pool 7/05 6. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson 7. On Beauty - Umberto Eco 8. 8 books from the 501 must- ...

General Period sourcebook: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool More specific Heyer Regency sourcebook: Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester

... and finding the humour--the book went from "okay" to "awesome." And talking about references, one that I really like is What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox-hunting to Whist--The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England.

... These look like linked stories. I vaguely remembering reading one of them in high school. I opened up to a game of whist, a card game that people still played quite a bit in the town of my high school years (Mattapoisett, MA).

ha, yeah, I read your contributions to the other thread. Very interesting. Do you have a copy of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew? If not, I think it'd be right up your alley.

my fair lady by monica dickens pretties by scott westerfeld specials by scott westerfeld woman in white by emily dickenson mostly harmless by douglas adams ----> my personal fav =)

... roll again. 6. As A Favor by Susan Dunlap. Jill is dealing with her neurotic ex-husband. 7. Beware of Doug by Elaine Fox.Lily Taylor's love life is complicated by her 'noisy,nasty, match-mauling pooch, Doug'. A fun romp from Elaine Fox, who does it so well. 8.This Old Souse by ...

... pertaining to history and material culture. However, the ones that most people pull out and are interested in are: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew A Field Guide To Demons which sits right next to-- A Dictionary of Angels Edited for Touchstones

... Hodgson, guess it's just the perversity of me, tell me not to go there and I want to go, so this caught my eye too. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool, offers such wonderful tidbits of information that I've always wondered about, like what IS a 'beadle" anyways? ...

... for it later, anyone else out there have books they would heartily recommend yet do not own? For some reason I own What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew but not Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters which I thought was a far superior book. Encyclopedic formats ...

I finished my non-Romance book What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew this morning. It's an informative book with little tidbits about 19th century British society and every day life. Also started my first book this year --> Pride and Prejudice Julia

... to have that buy two get one free coupon, and I felt it was my duty... no, my obligation to use it. ;o) I came home with Jane Austen : A Life by Claire Tomalin and A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay. Too bad there are a few books ahead of them on my stack.

... toy for his son. Can't remember the English titel though). - 3 stars So an overall 4. I started the reference book What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool this morning. It explaines to you the many little thing from 19th century everyday life. From weight, money, ...

Nothing could be more fun, for me anyway, then when I opened a just delivered First Edition of Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit. I love reading old First Editions; they have such a distinctive fragrance. I opened the book right after I unwrapped the package, stuck my nose into the book and ...

... and their sense of right and wrong, their willingness to sacrifice for others, etc. I'm about halfway through the Dickens canon, which has been the main recent focus of my spare-time reading. I think he's wonderfully witty, and I strongly disagree with the typical criticisms of him. ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Gardenias For Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn

... Peter Ackroyd has written is excellent! I quite enjoyed London: the Biography and am slowly plodding through his Dickens's biography. Ackroyd is a very versatile writer, as you will soon realize... :-))

... Oliver Twist and Great Expectations back-to-back, and then moved on to Peter Ackroyd's extremely enjoyable biography Dickens. Actually, before I flew out of London, I had to purchase a larger carry-on to take back the books I had purchased along Charing Cross Road.

... book recently called what would Jane Austen do? - a guide to dating (?!!?) and it was quite fun. I also have one called What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew which is really interesting - gives contemporary information about things like marriage laws, currency, food, servants etc ...

Am currently reading Hemingway by Kenneth Lynn. Pretty good by my standards. Perhaps the best bio I've ever read was Dickens by Peter Ackroyd.

... these as recent bestsellers: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Incomplete Education The Covenant What Jane Austen Ate.... The Meaning of Tingo Being Logical Death in the Garden The Philosopher's Diet The Bibliophile's Dictionary Who has ...