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Personalized Classics: You Be the Classic Character!

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So this is pretty sweet. Choose up to six names from classic books and replace with you and your friends. Awesome possum! Available with Dracula, Alice, and Romeo and Juliet. Which classic would you put yourself into?

I guess I choose Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, because that is the only one that isn’t sold out.

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#Alice In Wonderland

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What’s Old is New Episode 4: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Introduction

0:20 In which we wonder whether people will allow us to continue having a classics podcast

1:30 Jen’s issues with Jane Eyre

2:40 Nicole’s issues with Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre-related books

3:30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

4:45 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    6:50 Jen’s theory about people loving v. not loving Jane Eyre

11:35 The House of Moreys by Phyllis Eleanor Bentley

13:05 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

14:50 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

16:40 Other Jane-Eyre related books:

  • Jane by April Lindner
  • Charlotte and Emily by Jude Morgan
  • Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
  • Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael
  • The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James
  • The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore

Chat with Erin Blakemore, author of “The Heroine’s Bookshelf

19:30 Introducing Erin

20:00 Erin’s history with Jane Eyre

22:25 What makes this book so great?

24:10 Jane’s steadfastness

26:00 Jane’s like-ability and character

30:30 Erin questions our objections to Jane Eyre

33:30 The last 1/3 of the novel

40:10 The first 2/3 of the book (are we doing this backwards?)

41:20 Jane Eyre’s place in the canon

49:20 The wrap-up

Thanks for joining us! Feel free to comment below, or email us at oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com

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What’s Old is New Episode 2: Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Introduction

Nicole introduces today’s topic, “Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle

0:51 Arthur Conan Doyle’s hatred of his character

2:20 Holmes’ character and how he changed over the course of Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings.

4:50 What makes Sherlock Holmes enduring?

7:35 Sherlockian societies and inconsistencies between stories

  • “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes” by David Grann
  • “The Sherlockian” by Graham Moore

14:08 Sherlock Holmes and HOUSE

15:50 Our Sherlock Holmes book list

  • “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie R. King
  • “The Sherlockian” by Graham Moore
  • “The True Crime Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” by Stephen Hines
  • “Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Reopening the Case of Hound of the Baskervilles” by Pierre Bayard
  • “Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes” by Martin H Greenberg, John Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower
  • “Sherlock Holmes the American Years” edited by Michael Kurland
  • “Dust and Shadow” by Lyndsay Faye

Chat with Heather from Age 30+… A Lifetime of Books, Sherlock Holmes lover extraordinaire!

20:00 Our first experiences with Sherlock Holmes

23:45 TV and film depictions of Sherlock Holmes

26:37 “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” series

Chat with Graham Moore, author of “The Sherlockian

28:25 In which Graham makes Jen feel unaccomplished

29:09 The premise and historical background of “The Sherlockian”

32:30 Conan Doyle and authors who hate their own work

35:30 Why Graham wrote “The Sherlockian”

36:00 Jen quotes “The Sherlockian” as to why Sherlock Holmes is an enduring character

37:15 Why were people so crazy about Sherlock Holmes while Conan Doyle was writing the stories?

Thanks for joining us! Feel free to comment below, or email us at oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for further reading on Sherlock Holmes, check out this reading list from Once Upon a Bookshelf.

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