Note: Did you know that they made one of these without the sea monsters? By the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I apparently have cultivated a reputation with my girlfriend that I don’t like Jane Austen novels. But really, I do. I just happen find them a little tasking when I am starting out, just like I do with anything that is more than 100 or so years old. I just have to work at them a little more than others. It didn’t […]
Oh, just grow up, Marianne!
4.5 stars After their father dies and leaves pretty much everything to their older half-brother, the three Misses Dashwood and their widowed mother have to find a new place to live, which isn’t exactly easy with the meagre income they have. After some searching, a cousin of Mrs. Dashwood’s offer them lodging in a little cottage on his estate in Devon. The eldest daughter, Elinor, admonishes them to make the best of it, but the middle sister, Marianne, is determined to be miserable. Then she […]
Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Sense and Sensibility
A couple of years ago for CBR6, I re-read Jane Eyre, and because I was overwhelmed with the task of writing a review for such a classic book, I decided to get weird and write the review in the form of letters to the characters. Since then, with an eventual plan to re-read all of Jane Austen’s books, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’d do the same with as many future classic books that I could. So. This is me […]