I cap off my month of Pride and Prejudice with Jo Baker’s Longbourn. I had read several favorable CBR reviews already, and I was eager to see what the fuss was all about. Can I just say, I would like to see this as a PBS special over Death Comes to Pemberley? Because I just did. If you *have* to make a fanfic, do it right: give us something new. We all know the plot to Pride and Prejudice. But we often don’t think about […]
Mad at Helen Fielding
So. I finally read Mad about the Boy. I don’t know what to do with it. But I know that I didn’t love it. After two books, in which Bridget was navigating life as a 30-something Singleton, we skip right over her married years to Mark Darcy and skip ahead to 2013, where he’s been dead for five years, and she’s left to think about dating again with two young children. There are numerous dating hijinks and misunderstandings and a refried Elizabeth-and-Darcy relationship, to boot. […]
A genuinely good mystery besides “Why do we like Logan so much?”
[Disclaimer: the Pride and Prejudice project has been placed on hold temporarily, due to a one-week library loan moving this book in the queue. I will return with more Jane Austen enjoyment temporarily] I want to enjoy the mystery genre more than I do. Truly, there are few things I enjoy more than a delicious, intellectual mystery. But I become discouraged by the overwhelming amount of hopelessly dense, insipid, or lazy mystery novels out there, and I just don’t wade into them. Sometimes, I even […]
A more contemplative Bridget Jones? v.v.good
I had forgotten how many ties Edge of Reason shares with another Austen novel, Persuasion. In fact, some of the sly references made the reading that much more enjoyable. As a sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is v.good, but as a Persuasion contemporary adaptation, it does quite nicely. Not like the movie. In fact, let’s never mention the second movie, shall we? This novel finds Bridget Jones knee-deep in a new relationship with Mark Darcy, enjoying the highs and lows of new relationship, […]
Pemberley Has Problems
I make it a point never to read sequels of Pride and Prejudice. I mean, why bother? They’re either breathlessly fangirling or pedantically written. Or, in the case of Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife, BOTH. One can only read about Mr. Darcy’s bulging pantaloons so may times before it gets redundant. Or the endless euphemisms for penis. I only made it through ten chapters, when I gave up in a huff. Okay, ten chapters and a few sex scenes I deliberately searched for (and yes, […]
A book I ardently admire and love
It’s a universally-acknowledged truth around my house that a bit of Austen is a refreshing palate-cleanser. It’s been a few years since I read Pride and Prejudice, so I thought it high time for another visit with an old friend. Plus, I have cooked up this scheme for the next month: read Death Comes to Pemberley (especially since the adaptation is coming to Masterpiece!), Longbourn, and the Bridget Jones’s Diary set (I’ve read the first two and have finally overcome my reluctance to read the […]
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