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“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

November 7, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner ·
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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” (CBR11 Bingo)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Rosamund Pike (narrator)

October 29, 2019 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I have absolutely no idea how to review this book. Instead, I’ll tell you the story of my relationship with it. In my sophomore year of high school we read Austen for the first time. I clearly remember our teacher (looking back he was young, with long hair) stalking around the room selling us on an author only some of us had heard of, and attempting to inspire in us the mental fortitude it takes a 15 or 16 year old to really battle with […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Back to School, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, reread, Rosamund Pike

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:50 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Back to School, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, reread, Rosamund Pike ·
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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Pride and Prejudice

April 15, 2016 by narfna 19 Comments

ETA 4/21/16: I messed up when I marked two reviews in a row as #46, so this review actually isn’t my Cannonball. That honor belongs to my dubious review of Captive Prince. Shame on many fronts. The mistake has now been noted on both reviews. This is the third in my series of reviews wherein I get weird and write them in the form of letters to the characters. I’m re-reading all of Jane Austen’s books in 2016, and it shall be glorious. One every two months […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: classics, comedy of manners, Jane Austen, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Pride and Prejudice, Regency, romance, Rosamund Pike, Satire

narfna's CBR8 Review No:53 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: classics, comedy of manners, Jane Austen, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Pride and Prejudice, Regency, romance, Rosamund Pike, Satire ·
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Amazing Amy is a “Cool Girl”

October 22, 2014 by xoxoxoe 1 Comment

I recently finished reading Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I wanted to read it before I saw the David Fincher film. In a way, I wish I had seen the film first, as the book was so fresh in my mind, and so riveting a read, that I may not have been as blown away by the movie as I could have been. Gone Girl is structured as a “he said,” “she said” novel. It would not be giving too much away to say that both the he and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR6, Ben Affleck, Books, David Fincher, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Kim Dickens, mystery, Neil Patrick Harris, Rosamund Pike, thriller, xoxoxoe

xoxoxoe's CBR6 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, Ben Affleck, Books, David Fincher, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Kim Dickens, mystery, Neil Patrick Harris, Rosamund Pike, thriller, xoxoxoe ·
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