I want to thank all of you for your submissions to this week’s carnival. A reminder that the Tenth Edition of the Literature Carnival will fall one day before William Shakespeare’s birthday. For the April 22 edition of the Carnival, please submit your Shakespeare-themed posts, and let me know if submissions received well before then should be saved for the Shakespeare edition.

In book reviews this week, we have Grrlscientist’s thoughts on Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life at Living the Scientific Life, Jonathan Dresner’s review of The Apprentice by Lewis Libby at Frog in a Well and my own review of Lev Grossman’s Codex here at Much Madness is Divinest Sense.

Did you know the Internet had a patron saint?  Check out Sylvia’s series on St. Isidore of Seville starting with “Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi: Patron of the Internet” at Bookworm.

Tanya Abramovitch talks about her weekend reading in “Weight” over at the Library Girl.

Edward Champion reports that Joyce Carol Oates is “hang[ing] up the boots and giv[ing her] wrists a rest” at Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant.

I couldn’t resist posting this link to Austen Blog’s outing of Miami Heat guard Dwayne Wade as a Friend of Jane.  I want a poster for my classroom.

Just a reminder that the LitBlog Co-Op will be announcing the Spring 2006 Read This! selection a week from today.  Be sure to stop by and check it out.

David Weinberger of Joho the Blog is wondering how we sort our books.  Do piles count as sorting, I wonder?

Lucy Tartan takes a look at the divergent reading habits of men and women at Sorrow at Sills Bend.

OK, folks, see you in two weeks with the tenth edition devoted to William Shakespeare. Don’t forget to make your submissions for inclusion.

Finally!  I apologize for the carnival’s long absence.  Hopefully we can get this thing back on a bi-weekly schedule now.  Because I have limited time (I have a lot of essays to grade this week), I am limiting this week’s carnival strictly to submissions I received.

The Library Girl discusses the joys of enjoying one’s favorite hot beverage along with a good read.  I heard there used to be apparently still is a good bookstore in Atlanta called the Cup and Chaucer.  I live about a mile away from Coffee Buy the Book.  There’s just something about a nice hot cup of coffee or tea that goes so well with reading.  I can almost feel my IQ points go up when I go inside a coffeehouse or tearoom.

Grrl Scientist of Living the Scientific Life (Scientist Interrupted) reviews Michael Ruse’s The Evolution-Creation Struggle.  Very interesting book review — I would like to recommend Ed Larson’s books on the subject, mainly because I’ve heard him speak and he didn’t win the Pulitzer for nothing.

I read Jacob I Have Loved by Katherine Paterson in college as part of a course in Young Adult literature.  It’s a wonderful book.  The Autumn Rain thinks so too — read her review “When the Angst is Worth the Beauty.”

I’m afraid those are all the submissions I received — all very good ones!  I encourage you to submit your literature-related entries to the carnival now that we’re back on track.  I believe I received two other submissions that didn’t come through properly due to problems with my form.  When I invited the authors to resubmit, I didn’t hear anything.

If you would like your blog post to be featured in the next Literature Carnival, please use my carnival submission form.  Hope to see you in the next edition!

I promise not to do this every time, but rather than focus on posts written within the last week, I decided to focus on posts written about a particular author. I chose Jane Austen. I suppose it’s because I read most of her books my first year teaching, and I love her sense of humor. I have been thinking over the last week that I’ll pick up Persuasion, which I never finished all those years ago when I read her other books.

First of all, I was surprised to learn that Ms. Austen blogs. Sort of. At any rate, you can learn about all things Austen and truly call yourself an F.O.J. if you regularly visit AustenBlog.

Neil Gaiman points his readers to a Jane Austen font. That’s funny; I’d never have pegged him for an F.O.J. Can’t tell I learned a new term, or anything, can you?

With a new version of Pride and Prejudice, Austen movies are being discussed a bit more than books. If you’ve seen the new movie, you’re aware of the not-quite-F.O.J. ending (OK, I promise, I’ll stop — perhaps Janeite?), but what you might not have heard is that even though the Jane Austen Society of North America hated it, it seems that men like it. Shocking.

There are five reasons why you should watch or read Austen if your marriage is going into the toilet. I personally like number two best.

Jen Rouse takes a look at Northanger Abbey.

Jane celebrated a birthday on December 16. You can read about it at Ready Steady Book, Ron Schuler’s Parlour Tricks, and happytrails!.

To submit literary blog posts for next week’s carnival, e-mail dana @ huffenglish.com with the subject line Carnival. Please include a link to the item and the category for which it should be considered. Deadline is 10:00 P.M. each Friday. And it doesn’t have to be about Jane Austen.