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Even more mannered than most

Persuasion by Jane Austen

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  First off, may I say how incongruous this cover is for this book? Anne Elliot WOULD NEVER with that red harlot dress. Of all of Jane Austen’s protagonists, Anne Elliot is the mildest doormat to be found. Fanny Price endured a fair amount of abuse but took it because she was poor and relying on the kindness of others to have shelter and food. Anne Elliot gives up her fiance because her family thinks it is a poor match, and then she watches as her family spends themselves in to financial straits. She allows herself to be treated as […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

It is a truth universally acknowledged that giraffes aren’t all that sexy.

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

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I was excited to read this, as it is a well documented fact that I am a total sucker for any and all Austen retellings. I recently enjoyed Unmarriageable, and was hoping to ride the wave of fun Austen stories here. I began to read, hoping for a fun, gender-swapped modern version of one of my favorite stories. AND THEN I REMEMBERED THE BOLLYWOOD BRIDE. (Oh my. I really despised that book. Remember that #cannonbookclub? Yikes.) Ugh. The good news is that this story is better. And I think the bulk of the credit for that can go to Jane […]

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6/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A Flynn

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What if, in a future not long from now, time travel was a real, government sponsored thing? With a competitive selection process for its various missions – some successful, some not – would you be willing to risk your actual life, as well as the life as you know it, in order to participate? Strangely, in this future, in which almost all animals are extinct (something called the mysterious “die off”) and all food is created via 3D printing technology, officials are using this amazing time travel technology to go back to 1815 and find out what’s up with Jane […]

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6/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Did Not Really Like the Title Character Until Almost the End

Emma by Jane Austen

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I always feel so guilty when I am just so-so about a classic. I really tried to like “Emma” but in the end I didn’t like the character or her father. I also laughed at her being called a matchmaker when she supposedly only got one person together (Mrs. Weston with Mr. Weston). I also didn’t like Frank Churchill and thought Mr. Knightley was too good to be true. The ending with the resolve about what to do in order for him to be with the woman he loved made me shake my head. The writing was fine, I just […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:117 |

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Emma by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen famously described Emma as “A heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.” and I might agree. Emma Woodhouse is a rich young woman in a society where not much happens. She entertains herself by fancying herself a match maker and she takes on a protegé, of lower social ranking, intending on making her a match. Her friend Mr. Knightley warns her of this endeavour, but Emma is headstrong and believes a little too much in her self to listen to advice from anybody else. Also Emma doesn’t know what love is. She finds a match for herself […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

“In my humble opinion, pride is a fairly common sin, because everyone thinks very highly of themselves.”

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

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As anyone who has been part of the Cannonball Read for a while knows, I simply do not have the power to resist a Jane Austen retelling. Even if I’ve heard terrible things about it, I’m probably still going to read it. Unofficial sequels, modernizations, books told from alternate points of view? I am ALL IN. I recently saw an article talking about how Jane Austen is all the rage right now with Southeast Asian writers and readers, and how there were a slew of upcoming books that were Jane-adjacent but told from the perspective of a young woman from […]

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4/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Time travel + Jane Austen Historical Fiction + Romance & Spycraft = This book.

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

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SO. I was actually a bit nervous going in to this since most of my friends on Goodreads who’ve read it didn’t like it very much, if at all, but I liked it quite a bit! I acquired it when a friend was moving a while back and basically let me have free reign on her bookshelves (such a good haul), and then ignored it until I pulled it out of my TBR Jar for February. Though I shake my head at the way the time travel works in this book, the actual mechanics of it, the focus is really […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Every Pride and Prejudice retelling is an excuse to post Firth gifs

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

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Two Pride and Prejudice retellings in a row that I’ve enjoyed! It’s a February miracle. I actually liked this one a bit better than Pride, but they’re both good and worth reading. The draw of Unmarriageable isn’t in the way the plot points are reinterpreted because all in all, it sticks pretty closely to the original story. The draw is in the early 2000’s Pakistani setting which is similar enough to the original English setting for the plot points to make sense and different enough in tone to breath new life into a well known story. The Binat family used […]

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2/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |


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