EPISODE 16 Opening Tech Notes: Cate is in focus limbo here. The features of her face are not in focus, which is a little weird because the background is also not in focus, but random things on the screen are in focus. It looks weird. So John just now knows that Cate makes videos? Or something had to have happened to make him care more now than before that she makes them? Was he really that oblivious to the small conversation that James and Cate had in episode twelve? It make

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Episodes eleven through fifteen. I thought about waiting and posting after episode twenty, but as we are actually getting into the story the reactions and reviews are getting longer. You can click on the "cmc" in the tag section of the post and find all of the posts on Cate Morland Chronicles. EPISODE 11 Cate is sick... Isabella video calls her... The set up for the mishaps with John has been created! Okay, I'm not excited about the stuff that is going to happ

AUTHOR NOTE: I decided to try to do an episode by episode reaction/review of the Cate Morland Chronicles. This is the first of many posts on this series. I don't know how many episodes have been created for the series, but I feel like if I actually waited until the end this post would be so long that unless you're truly interested in this series you'll probably not read all the way to the end. You still may not read all the way to the end. I don't know, I'm not you. In this p

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Janeite is always on the look out for new ways to experience Jane Austen's novels. Laura Riley and Jennifer Teska's The Jane Games is a reality style webseries that gives one story line of each of Jane Austen's novels in a modern setting. Through the completion of certain tasks, the contestants are given the chance to win her soulmate, a month long vacation, and $100,000. The contestants are: Pride & Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennett

Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid is a modernized adaptation of Jane Austen’s only gothic romance of the same title. Overall, I enjoyed this novel. It had the same essence that Austen’s novel had and I still liked and disliked the characters I feel like are meant to fit into those categories. Things I Did Not Like: Catherine Morland being a fan of Twilight. I am by no stretch of the imagination am I a fan of that saga. The fact that that series is how the author chose to po