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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 |

“I am glad I am done being in love with him….”

Emma by Jane Austen

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So I don’t think I have anything generally meaningful to say about Emma by Jane Austen. The novel is 200 years old, is arguably her best (which is something you can say about pretty much all of her books), and is more or less number 3-4 on my list of my favorite of her novels (For me it’s Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility/Emma, Northanger Abbey — and I still need to read Mansfield Park). So I will just make some stray remarks. –This book feels longer than her other ones (again, minus Mansfield Park, which I think is […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:100 |

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible”

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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Reading Jane Austen feels like coming home. Every year I tell myself I’m going to reread more, but this year I decided to be more honest about that goal and acknowledge that what I really mean is I’m going to reread Austen. She’s just the literal best. Like actually. The best. Full stop. Every time I go back, I’m just like holy shit Jane, you’re a fucking genius. Northanger Abbey falls in the middle for me in terms of favorites. Probably 4th favorite? I haven’t reread Sense and Sensibility for a few years, so I can’t say for certain. In […]

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1/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a sucker for a decent Austen retelling.

Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

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Newsflash: I’ll pretty much read anything that is tangentially related to Jane Austen. Unofficial sequels. Modern retellings. Historical fiction. Whatever. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn’t. But I’m usually game to give it a go. I really enjoyed the books that were part of The Austen Project a few years ago. There was Emma, driving around her little town in a Mini Cooper. Cat and Henry, with lots of references to Twilight. Liz and Darcyand a dating reality show in Cincinatti. And a social media fueled version of Sense & Sensibilitythat was fun but definitely a product […]

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1/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Good, eh, okay, and sweet

A Very Austen Christmas by Robin Helm, Laura Hile, Wendi Sotis, Barbara Cornthwaite

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So I was inspired by my lovely book exchange gifts to attempt to read through all of the Pride and Prejudice variations I currently own.  I say “attempt” because it’s a lot.  I started off with A Very Austen Christmas, an anthology of Christmas stories, because it’s seasonal I guess.  And the wifi is broken at my house, so that means more reading at home instead of noodling around on the internet! “Her Christmas Gift” by Robin Helm This is a Pride and Prejudice story, and it’s delightful. It’s one of those “what if one thing changed” stories, and in […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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