Cannonball Read 18

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A classic I don’t care to remember

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

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This is a part of my quest to read those books I feel like everyone had to read in high school, but somehow I didn’t. My goal? To know what people are talking about when they reference this book, and to hopefully understand the source material for some pop culture references. Well, now that I’ve finished the book, I realize I overestimated the pop-cultural currency this book contained. I don’t feel like there were moments where I said, “THAT’S where that came from!” And I […]

“He is a person, complicated and confused. Just like you.”

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

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Ayesha at Last is a retelling the story of Pride and Prejudice featuring the titular Ayesha, a Muslim woman in her late twenties who has put aside her dreams of poetry and just finished a career change to become a teacher, financed by her wealthy uncle who has been financially supportive of her family since her father’s death including moving them to Canada and giving them the house they share with her grandparents. She is single and being passed on the proverbial marriage mart by […]

There’s Something About Mary

Mary B: A Novel by Katherine J. Chen

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Cbr16bingo fanfic  As I have mentioned in previous reviews, I love Pride and Prejudice. It’s one of my favorite novels of all time. I have read and enjoyed several re-tellings of the novel, such as Jo Baker’s Longbourn, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible, and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I guess those are “fanfics,” but when I think of fanfic, I think of stories like All the Young Dudes, which use a famous novel as a jump off point to imagine life beyond the original […]

Jane Austen fan fiction with murder!

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

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Mr. Knightley and his wife, Emma (formerly Miss Woodhouse), have been happily married for several years. They are inviting a number of friends to a houseparty; Mr. and Mrs Darcy of Pemberley with their son Jonathan, Colonel and Mrs. Brandon (no children yet, as they are very newly married), Captain and Mrs. Wentworth,  Edmund and Fanny Bertram and Miss Juliet Tilney, daughter of  Henry and Catherine Tilney. Unfortunately, they also receive an unexpected and unwanted addition to the party, Mr Wickham, who has unfinished business with several of the members there. The Knightleys would […]

The theme this year is to have fun, so have fun With Jane and stickers!

Sticker Jigsaw: Pride and Prejudice by Joy Laforme

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CBR16SweetChallenge #Cozy This year I said  to myself, “We are going to do some fun books this year.” and Myself replied, “Sounds like a great idea, Me!” And so I did. Sticker Jigsaw: Pride and Prejudice was a fun book. It is a very abridged Pride and Prejudice with stickers. It is an activity book that has a few pages of highlights for the story and then you get to put stickers on the pages. Now this could work for an older adult who needs […]

like passing notes in high school English with your nerdy, austen-obsessed friend

The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by David M. Shapard, Jane Austen

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Goodreads really wants to slot this in with a regular copy of Pride and Prejudice, and to be fair you are reading a copy of Pride and Prejudice when you read this. In my case, it’s been so long since I’ve read this book and I have watched so many snippets of the 1995 BBC version and the 2005 Keira Knightley version since that there were multiple, multiple times that I thought I was reading some sort of “newly discovered passages!” version of the book. […]



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