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I really wanted to love this book. But I just couldn’t. It needs a couple of more drafts before really getting there.
This is a DNF–a did not finish–for me. Not a did not finish the book, but a did not finish the diet.
I am making an effort to read more YA literature. But then I read it and I remember why I don’t usually pick up books like this. And the worst of it is, I kinda liked it.
I’m a bit behind in reviews…for instance, I read this one some time last month. Part of this is procrastination on my part. But part of this is also that I wanted to let it digest in my brain.
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler was…a decent story just adequately written.
The first thing you have to know is not about this book, or about Willa Cather. It’s about me. I have an abnormal love of suspension bridges.
Will somebody please tell me what the Hell this is supposed to be on the cover of this book? I get that it’s supposed to be gold leaf and lapis or whatever, but what is it a picture of?
It’s possible that Jane Austen’s wit is at its height in Northanger Abbey. Those biting little sentences that describe characters, and their quips to one another ring throughout the walls of bath and the great house Northanger Abbey.
I give this three DVD set a solid meh. I espied it at the library and thought I’d give it a whirl for the Everything Austen Challenge. Having watched all 180 minutes of it last night, I want at least 120 of those minutes back.
The Seal Intestine Raincoat in the book’s title turns out to be exactly that: a raincoat made from seal intestines. It was made a long time ago by a now homeless old Inuit man in the Northern reaches of Canada. 