This was a reread for me though it’s been more than a decade since my last read. Instead of going through the plot since I think most people are familiar with the bare bones of the plot, I’m just going to share a few random thoughts I had while listening to this novel. So doing Austen as an audio book is interesting. It was obvious when reading Persuasion that Anne Elliot was the only one with any common sense and that everyone around her was […]
37: Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her before.
It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a Jane Austen stan. For example: I just bought an Austen themed game that was advertised as a Kickstarter on Facebook (it arrived last week, and it is basically Jane Austen meets Settlers of Catan. SUCH A HOOT). Books about Jane Austen are almost always a matter of interest to me. Last year, I saw that Helena Kelly’s Jane Austen, the Secret Radical was published and making an enormous splash. I decided in a fit of the-school-year’s-almost-over […]
Now I Must Watch the Film
Best for: Anyone interested in getting swept up in a bit of period drama. In a nutshell: Two sisters deal with the loss of their father and the change in lifestyle that follows, while trying to sort out their love lives. Worth quoting: “I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” Why I chose it: The cover, honestly. This lovely cloth cover drew my attention in a bookshop a few weeks ago, and I figured why not finally […]
The video was better
I am not sure why, of all the recent books I’ve read, this one made me so angry. Especially that by all account it is not the worst book I’ve read recently, just possibly the laziest! Just a quick background, to those who are not familiar with the book, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was a 2012 transmedia project which was a modernize version of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. It was (at least in my opinion) one of the better (if not the best) recent […]