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M-----l

M-----l posted Stuff I've Been Reading: A Monthly Column (11/09) | Dec 2, 2009

I started off the month with two books that got their own posts, The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens and My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Then I settled in and read four additional books before the month ended. Here are my quick thoughts on those: Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen After...

janicu

janicu posted Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice by Kate Fenton | Nov 29, 2009

Vanity and Vexation: A Novel of Pride and Prejudice Kate Fenton I couldn't really recall what books I was planning to borrow from the library for Everything Austen and I'd stumbled on this book online while idly perusing sales on Bookcloseouts (50% off certain fiction titles, I eventually resisted,...

vtpanther

vtpanther posted “’Quite Happy’ is not the end I want to write for my story” | Nov 6, 2009

Miss Austen Regrets tries to tell the story of a human being who cannot find a counterpart but nevertheless, feels the need of one. Ironically, it is the story of one of Western Literature’s most formidable Romance novelists, Jane Austen. It is a movie that asks questions but leaves the answers to...

M-----l

M-----l posted Stuff I've Been Reading: A Monthly Column (10/09) | Nov 2, 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--Jane Austen The problem I had with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn't the fact that some hack added zombies into a classic; my problem is one of logic and storytelling. According to the book, the zombie uprising began over 50 years ago. And yet, hordes of fresh...