Thought I'd stay on the penguin theme...

This adventurous little chap is now in safety.

And here's another one!

Austen adaptations

New crossword here.

Article about the new Persuasion here.

A new novella series as a sequel to Northanger Abbey.

Help decide the promotional poster for 'Becoming Jane'.

And a quiz to round things off.

Austen-esque author finds her Mr Darcy

This is a lovely story.

What would your aristocratic title be?

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Countess-Palatine Charlotte the Contrite of Wallop upon Deane Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Penguins in popular culture

Here's a nice article about these lovable creatures - beginning with none other than Pingu, of course.

Jane Austen quotes blog

"Daily wit and inspiration from Austen, compiled by Lori Smith, author of A Walk with Jane."

Cute cat link

Stuff like this helps me feed my cat addiction, while I'm not allowed to have one...

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

Do any cat-loving readers have favourite sites?

Typography Generator

This is cool. Type some stuff, press the button, then... magic.

Star Trek meets Jane Austen

This is quite entertaining.

The classics straight to your inbox

Take advantage of this service, whereby you can have your favourite novels drip-fed to you by email.

Jane Austen crossword

A few of these are quite challenging!

Public expression becomes private interpretation

"The story the reader reads is probably never quite the story the writer felt they were writing, because the reader will bring all sorts of judgements and experiences which the writer can’t anticipate."
Margaret Mahy

From an article entitled "Margaret Mahy's Marvellous Mind" at Idealog.

Create your own modern art

How cool is this?

(from Miss Snark)

Austen tidbits

An interesting article on the origin of Halloween and whether JA would have celebrated it

A tricky quiz on movie adaptations vs the books

How ironic

It's a great concept for a shirt, but funny that it proudly proclaims "Made in the USA". Out of anyone, Americans are the worst murderers of the English language.

This and other gear for writers here.

How well do you know your Jane Austen?

Play Mastermind and find out. Apparently a score of over 20 is 'very good'... I scored 16.

Pride & Prejudice meets Harry Potter

My connection is a bit too slow to do this justice, but apparently it's very funny.

Beautiful books and deviant language

Click here to see gorgeous photos of the world's most grand libraries.

It seems companies want to control the way we use language. I don't know why Google has problems with us "googling" - I would have thought any publicity was a good thing.

Advice from a New York literati

All manner of tidbits for aspiring writers are liberally shared by an incognito New York Agent, Miss Snark, here. As you might expect from the name, each dose is injected with an amusing combination of satire, impatience and an unhealthy obsession with George Clooney. Quite addictive.

Can you spot a fake smile?

Take this test at the BBC website.

I scored 16/20.