tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post6732582853225999041..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: Confessions of a Jane Austen AddictFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-19097281917638872302009-05-09T17:55:00.000-07:002009-05-09T17:55:00.000-07:00Dear Ellen,
Confessions of a JA Addict is a fun r...Dear Ellen,<br /><br />Confessions of a JA Addict is a fun read, a kind of wacky time-travel Bridget Jones. I don't really know the Jane Austen sequels, but I'm definitely reading the sequel to Confessions! <br /><br />I imagine Karen Joy Fowler is in a bind: say something nice or nothing at all? Perhaps that's the way writer/reviewers feel these days. But it's too bad JA Out of the Blue was disappointing. It's a strange industry, isn't it?Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-23797455312435865062009-05-08T19:47:00.000-07:002009-05-08T19:47:00.000-07:00Dear Kathy,
It's so hard to tell if the Austen se...Dear Kathy,<br /><br />It's so hard to tell if the Austen sequel is witty new fiction or drek. I thought _Jane Austen out of the blue_ had a decent premise, but it turned out that Joy Fowler made it sound a lot lot better than it is. It's hollow inanity. Reading the story summary of _Addict_ it didn't sound as if it made any sense. Your comment that it mixes genuine reflections of the author's life in LA with Jane Austen regency matter makes it sound interesting.<br /><br />EllenEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-64607221459976505422009-05-05T18:19:00.000-07:002009-05-05T18:19:00.000-07:00Postscript:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is sh...Postscript:<br /><br />Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is shelved in the "teen" section at B&N. It wasn't on the Jane Austen table, nor were the Jane Austen mysteries, so I looked them up on the computer. The Austen table seems to be reserved for Austen's own books and for sequel historical novels. The mysteries and the zombie book are excluded. No idea if this is a corporate or management decision. <br /><br />All the books looked like fun, but I have to finish my Georgette Heyer before I move on to more Jane sequels.Kat at Thornfield Hall Reduxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525125671217787722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-67909863642822354622009-05-05T08:12:00.000-07:002009-05-05T08:12:00.000-07:00Tell me if it's good! I haven't seen a copy. I w...Tell me if it's good! I haven't seen a copy. I was wondering the other day if they shelved it in fiction or science fiction. Usually best-sellers end up on the front tables, but not this one. <br /><br />"Mash-up" sounds like an apt description. <br /><br />If I get hooked on Austen sequels, I'll have to join the Janeites. I wonder what they think of the zombie thing. <br /><br />How great to go to the London Book Fair.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-74810069073861857772009-05-05T03:52:00.000-07:002009-05-05T03:52:00.000-07:00At the recent London Book Fair, Mark Thwaite of Th...At the recent London Book Fair, Mark Thwaite of The Book Depository enlightened me to the existence of a new genre of literature. The idea of this new form is to fuse widely disparate genres together to form a new literary product, and I think Mark called it 'mash-up' writing (an expression favoured by the youth of today, I believe). The example he mentioned was <B>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!</B>, published by <B>Quirk Books</B>. Unable to resist, I've obtained a copy, but haven't read it yet.David Birketthttp://thecapuchinclassicsblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com