Currently Reading #33

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

My current read is Longbourn by Jo Baker. It's a fun book about the trials and vicissitudes of the servants to the Bennett household in Pride and Prejudice. It has nothing of Austen's delicacy of touch, where she writes something apparently innocent and you have to think for a moment before you realise she's just taken the most tremendous swipe at a character with a bear paw, claws extended. It does however read on occasion like it's the thoughts the author had while reading P&P, put into a servant's mouth.

But it's fun. And it doesn't just repeat the story of P&P--or add pointless zombies to it--but has a plot all of its own, interwoven with the original story but never impinging on it.

Good so far.

Comments

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Might try that one.

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

Worth a read. Although I was a bit surprised by what she did with Mr Bennet.