Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

And interesting line from this book... Be where you are now. Stop struggling to be somewhere else. That line is written for me. I have trouble living in the moment. My eye is always on the next brass ring. That should be my New Year's resolution. If I could keep that one I would have a much less stressful new year, next year, any year.

I enjoyed this book, it was a easy read. Probably not enough discussion to be a book club book. There were a lot of comparisons between a woman's lot in life now and in Jane Austin's time.

In this Jane Austeninspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austens time. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another womans life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her love of Jane Austen has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless seducers, and marriages of convenience. Enter the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who fills Courtneys borrowed brain with confusing memories that are clearly not her own. Try as she might to control her mind and find a way home, Courtney cannot deny that she is becoming this other womanand being this other woman is not without its advantages: Especially in a looking-glass Austen world. Especially with a suitor who may not turn out to be a familiar species of philanderer after all. - Google Book Search