As the inaugural post of my self-proclaimed 'favorite blog' ever - I want to break the cyber ice by explaining the title and why I choose to write as I do.
craving{Jane} is an homage to my personal obsession, the object of my literary affection - Jane Austen.
Most people ask if she's a tv host and as if a hole has been punched through my chest, I can only sigh and say "No, she's an author" "Oh, she writes romance novels?"
This is the point in my day when I begin to wonder if I like people at all.
I first read Austen when I was 15 and my mother, an avid Janeite herself, introduced me to the wonderful, sarcastic world of Pride and Prejudice. I fell slightly vegetative during the three hour span of the original BBC version and when the credits rolled, I woke from my trance to see the world as a much prettier place knowing that people like Mr. Darcy and Lizzie existed in it. Ever since then, my bookshelves have been filled with every canonical novel, short, biography, and research journal on/around/or pertaining to the world of Austen.
She is chaotic and lovely in her stories of fairy tales gone astray. She writes about a time when men stood as a lady entered the room and when ladies acted as just that.
I fell hard for her and her world and ever since, she has captivated my life like a beautiful quotation in the middle of an ugly story.
My blog won't always be about her, I couldn't possibly believe that people would want to read about her as often as I do, but it will always be inspired by her.
As a man tells his stories, a woman tells her secrets.
Here are mine.
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