{"id":5687,"date":"2011-01-16T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2011-01-16T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:37:36","slug":"are-you-watching-downton-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/are-you-watching-downton-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Watching Downton Abbey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I launch into <strong>Downton Abbey<\/strong>, I have more exciting news to share. I made a bestselling list! Okay, it&#8217;s not the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>USA Today<\/em> or even Bookscan but it&#8217;s a list and I&#8217;ve never made a list, so I will take this with both hands out quite happily. I&#8217;ve posted the verbiage and link below!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Nine days after the release of her second novel, Beverley Kendall has  made it onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksonboard.com\/index.html?ebooks=ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BooksOnBoard\u2019s<\/a> <strong>Top Five Romance Authors<\/strong> list; <strong>A Taste of  Desire<\/strong> debuted at number seven on last week\u2019s <strong>Bestselling Romance eBooks<\/strong> list, and this week has attained the number one slot. \u201cKendall\u2019s debut  novel, <strong>Sinful Surrender<\/strong>, also did well when it hit the virtual shelves  on January 1, 2010\u2014but <strong>A Taste of Desire<\/strong> has blown <strong>Sinful Surrender<\/strong> out  of the water,\u201d said Project Manager Mindy Erickson. \u201cThere are going to  be a lot of impatient fans out there if Kendall takes another full year  to release her next novel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=129847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=129847<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, I got nothing done on Saturday, save doing very necessary food shopping after been holed up in the house all week with my son. \ud83d\ude42 The joys of snow and ice in Georgia.Good news always means I need to give something away. Since I&#8217;ll be chatting about the new <em><strong>Masterpiece Classic<\/strong><\/em> series <strong>Downton Abbey<\/strong>, <strong>one prize will be the DVD<\/strong>.\u00a0 And since it was<strong> BooksOnBoard<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksonboard.com\/index.html?ebooks=ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>that made my Saturday, the other prize will be a <strong>$15 Gift Certificate<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksonboard.com\/index.html?ebooks=ebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BooksOnBoard<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<strong> Two winners, two great prizes, just comment to enter to win!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now speaking of <strong>Downton Abbey<\/strong>, talk about love at first sight! It&#8217;s now my new obsession&#8211;and I can&#8217;t tell you how much I absolutely<em> love it! <\/em>You can stream the first episode on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/watch\/downtonabbey_ep1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS.org Masterpiece.<\/a> I&#8217;ve embedded it below if you&#8217;re interested in taking a sneak peek.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"512\" height=\"328\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"video=1724131531&amp;player=viral&amp;chapter=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/video\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;\">Watch the <a style=\"text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/1724131531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full episode<\/a>. See more <a style=\"text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/masterpiece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masterpiece.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the summary I&#8217;ve taken right off the website. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton \u2014 change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family, in spite of the best efforts of the noble and compassionate Earl, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville, Miss Austen Regrets); his American heiress wife, Cora (Elizabeth McGovern); his comically implacable, opinionated mother, Violet (Maggie Smith, David Copperfield); and his beautiful, eldest daughter, Mary, intent on charting her own course. Reluctantly, the family is forced to welcome its heir apparent, the self-made and proudly modern Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens), himself none too happy about the new arrangements. As Matthew&#8217;s bristly relationship with Mary begins to crackle with electricity, hope for the future of Downton&#8217;s dynasty takes shape. But when petty jealousies and ambitions grow among the family and the staff, scheming and secrets \u2014 both delicious and dangerous \u2014 threaten to derail the scramble to preserve Downton Abbey. 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