Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Price is Right, or, Untainted Love

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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It is a bold move from Jane Austen to introduce the first proper conflict by the two-thirds mark. I’m referring, of course, to the moment when Fanny Price commences her journey of becoming an individual with agency: her refusal to marry Mr. Crawford. Even if it displeases the mighty Sir Thomas, her uncle. Prior to this event the name of the book, Mansfield Park really was accurate: Jane Austen was writing about the place, people that live there, and events that occur. However, the heroine […]

Kiss and Make Up

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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It’s always such a pleasure to visit dear old friends, to be instantly on the same wavelength. That’s Pride and Prejudice – which still manages to surprise me positively each time I read it. It is a page-turner; it is superlative. I’m concentrating on a couple of issues only, so this is not a comprehensive review. Discussions. In the previous novel (chronologically), Sense and Sensibility, the discussions were mostly subdued, pokerfaced (by Elinor to hide her knowlegde and to shield Marianne or he mother, for […]

Romance’s Big Mama

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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The ultimate romantic novel, now read by Indira Varma. I don’t think I really need to write a summary for this, we all know the story, be it from reading the book or watching one of the gazillion adaptations. (Or, you know, trying to read the novel all ambitiously as a teen, but failing spectacularly because English no good yet, watching the 1995 BBC production at 20 and being obsessed with Colin Firth for 2 years, then reading the novel again to somewhat greater success). […]

Violently in love

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

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Cbr13bingo Old Series Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) is the first book in a trilogy that centers around Elizabeth Bennet and the zombie infestation of England. The second book, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, is a prequel, and the third book, Dreadfully Ever After is a sequel. The second two books in the series were written by Steve Hockensmith. Those familiar with Jane Austen’s novels will recognize expressions such as “violence of affection” and “violence of love” as they crop up frequently in her writing. […]

The GOAT

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Cbr13bingo Self care Pride and Prejudice is my favorite novel of all time. As I believe I have related before, it is the first and only book that I’ve read which, upon finishing for the first time, I immediately returned to page one and read it all over again. For many years, I did a reread around the holidays as a gift to myself. My first ebook download was Pride and Prejudice. I’ve seen a couple of the adaptations (the definitive A&E/Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle series, […]

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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Cbr13bingo/People At some point in my teenaged years, I think I might have read Northanger Abbey. I know I went through an intense Austen phase after reading Pride and Prejudice, and that I had a collection of all Austen’s novels, but I certainly didn’t remember the particulars of this one upon re-reading it, which simply added to the delight in this encounter. Northanger Abbey was one of Austen’s earlier novels but it was not published until after her death. It’s a rom-com/coming of age story that […]



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