Becoming Jane will be released on 12 February, 2008. It is currently available for pre-order on Amazon at a sale price of $17.99 (reg $29.99). I have no idea if the price will go up after release, but if you pre-order the sale price is guaranteed.
I've seen The Jane Austen Book Club but not Becoming Jane. I enjoyed JABC, but it doesn't make the buy-it-to-watch-it-again cut for me. I did grudgingly add Becoming Jane to my Netflix queue last week after watching The Princess Diaries and deciding that Anne Hathaway** isn't the antichrist. I haven't seen The Devil Wears Prada either, but after seeing JABC I now have a grrlcrush on Emily Blunt, so it's in the Netflix queue too.
The Masterpiece Theatre 2007 Jane Austen films are also on sale at Amazon, and they are available now (in stock, not pre-orders): Persuasion
($16.99), Northanger Abbey
($16.99), and Mansfield Park
($18.69). (They are also for sale at the PBS store, but are closer to $20-25 each, plus shipping. Also, they are on backorder for 2-4 weeks! At least that means they are popular...?)I am thinking of buying the last two, since I haven't seen them yet and missed taping the reruns. If they don't strike me a "keepers," I imagine I can find someone to pass them along to in my bookclub or on this blog!
*Full disclosure - I have an Amazon Associates account, so if you click through and order something, I get like a 4% credit. Eventually I may get build up enough to get a $10 gift certificate, but at the rate I'm going it will be another year! *Meh*
**That's a stage name, right? Or does the actress just coincidentally have the same name as Shakespeare's wife?
2 comments:
Anne Hathaway may be the only reason to watch "Becoming Jane".
I'm not a big Anne Hathaway fan but I've always wondered about her name too. :) Lol, I've been an Amazon Associate for a bit longer than you, I think, and I'm still working my way toward my first $10.00! Good luck!
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