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 […]
Thar be dragons
[Sidenote: This book is only $1.99 right now!] I always love it when a fun book falls on a cannonball milestone. Although, I have been having a pretty good reading year in terms of quality, so maybe not too surprising. I heard of this book when it first came out in 2017 and I was fairly sure I was going to love it, so I was saving it as a comfort read during a bad week. I should really do that more often because it […]
3: The Making of Jane Austen
If you have ever read any of my CBR Reviews the last several years, you know that Jane Austen is my literary ride or die. I don’t typically read Jane Austen fanfic (with the marvelous exception of Longbourne), but I *do* read a lot of scholarship and intellectual thinkpieces that are not mansplaining Austen to wimminfolk. And that is how fate led my husband to point out The Making of Jane Austen to me at our local library and caused me to glint with recognition. […]
I would like to drown everyone in this book in a vat of eggnog. (Featuring bonus gifs to make me feel better.)
I was super excited when I saw this at my local bookstore. One of my all-time favorite classics, modernized and gender-swapped, set at Christmas, and with a cute cover. This was going to be great. SPOILER: THIS WAS NOT GREAT. This was absolutely awful. The worst. The writing was terrible and amateurish. The plot points were forced, like they were simply following a checklist of things that Jane Austen originally wrote. Every single character was a horrible human being that I never wanted to know. […]
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