Her entry begins:
I’m having a glorious time listening to the audiobook of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End (read by Steven Crossley). When my brain hits a wall with the writing (I get up in the wee hours and work till mid-day), I’m hungry to read, but find being read to an absolute tonic, letting a book wash over me and rewire my brain. And because I have a terrible memory, and had forgotten so much of the story, this is like reading it for the first time. Forster is an absolute genius with language. I’d forgotten how utterly funny he can be, how he can send up big and difficult subjects (class, capitalism, imperialism), by making fun of his characters, drawn so distinctly. There’s this brilliant...[read on]About Sometime This Century, from the publisher:
A riotous rom-com meets a swoon-worthy Regency comedy of manners in this heartfelt time-travel story about sisters, love, identity—and how Jane Austen just might change your life.Visit Samantha Silva's website.
Annabel Blake was born in the wrong century. An Austen-loving book nerd, she dreams of being a writer herself, with a just-penned Regency novelto prove it. Her hopes sink when her hot author crush rejects her: The novel reads like she’s never been in love. Ouch.
Annabel sees a chance to rewrite it when her ex-pat boss sends her to England to sort out her family’s “crumbling old pile” of a country house. Tempted by an invitation tucked in an antique writing desk and a “period” coachman at her door, Annabel’s whisked away to a local Regency Society ball—cue candlelight, costumes, dancing—that might be just the inspiration she needs. There’s even the achingly perfect—and wildly out of her league—Henry Leighton D’Evercy.
When Annabel’s audacious influencer sister crashes the party with her super-chill ex-boyfriend, the unlikely trio wake to find themselves trapped in the actual Regency era. No Wi-Fi, lattes, cellphones—just a world where manners, money, and marriage rule.
As Annabel falls deeply for D’Evercy, she must decide: write her perfect love story…or live it.
Q&A with Samantha Silva.
The Page 69 Test: Sometime This Century.
Writers Read: Samantha Silva.
--Marshal Zeringue
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