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Blog tour: Review and giveaway at AtticGirl.com

05 Thursday Jul 2012

Posted by lori in Giveaways, Reviews, The Jane Austen Guide to Life

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Shelly Dixon is hosting a giveaway on her blog, AtticGirl.com. Lots of great stuff there for moms!  Eight more days to enter the giveaway.

She posted a sweet review as well:

Lori has a gift with words; reading them is like sitting down and having a conversation with your best friend. (read more)

And allowed me to guest blog about Jane Austen’s Fresh Perspective:

In her writing, she loved to skewer the ridiculous, to isolate and display the character flaws of people at every level of society—the bombastic nature of Pride and Prejudice’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the faithless grasping of Northanger Abbey’s Isabella Thorpe, even the vanity of her dear Elizabeth Bennet.  Which is why, if she were here today, she just might rejoice at the sheer amount of absurd behavior on display. (read more)

So check out Shelly’s blog and enter to win a free book!

World Magazine review

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by lori in Reviews, The Jane Austen Guide to Life

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World Magazine published a short review of The Jane Austen Guide to Life this week.  The article is subscribers-only, but I don’t think they’ll mind if I reprint the review here:

Lori Smith knows her Jane Austen. She draws from Austen’s fictional characters, as well as from personal letters and prayers, insights into the human condition and practical advice for young women today. In chapters ranging from “Finding a Good Man” to “Saving and Spending,” Smith mines Austen and finds gold. She grounds practical advice—”don’t let your vanity blind you” or “be the right woman”—in Austen’s novels, showing how characters like Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse had to grow and change to become women of substance. Readers will enjoy this refresher course through the novels, and the counter-cultural advice this Austen-based “guide to life” offers.

A new review for Walk with Jane

14 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by lori in A Walk with Jane Austen, Reviews

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I was thrilled to read this review earlier this week.  I reached out to Rachel, a book blogger and fellow Christian and Austen lover, on the off chance that she might be interested in the new book.  She was interested in the Guide, and also in A Walk with Jane Austen. And, as it turns out, we appear to have been living eerily similar lives.  She immediately connected with Walk with Jane, and wrote the kind of review every writer dreams of.  This is the thing that makes writing worth it, when you really connect with someone, someone you’ve never met before, who just happens to have your book in their hands.  Thank you, Rachel, for this beautiful — and beautifully written — review.

There are certain books that tug your heart strings and catch your throat and make you squeal aloud at every moment where you realize that the author has taken words and thoughts out of your mouth and heart and slapped them on a page. A Walk with Jane Austen is very much A Walk into Rachel’s Psyche.  It is Smith’s blatant and commendable honesty, her frustratingly poignant stream-of-consciousness and her willingness to spill her thoughts and pangs like a tipped-over inkpot that make this story the most poignant caption of a literary infused life I think I have ever read.  (read more)

Thankful for the unexpected blessing of connecting with a new friend.

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