Talkie Tuesday: Pride & Prejudice

 

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in 

possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So initially I had a very different plan for this week's blog post, but then this past weekend happened, and this was an actual conversation in our house.

 

"Ice hockey runs all afternoon."

 

"Yep."

 

"You know what we should watch in the meantime?"

 

"What?"

 

Movie theme song plays.

 

It's been absolute AGES since I've seen this movie to begin with, and it's always a pleasure watching it with someone who's more than fine discussing certain issues that crop up or that are being argued about on screen.

 

Without further ado then - let's time travel back to 2005 and Pride & Prejudice.

 

Tome Thursday: DH Beauty from Ashes

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm picking up a slightly different book this week, one I stumbled over VERY randomly - I don't even know how or where, to be honest, just that I really liked the blurb and figured I could give the story a shot, so that's how it ended up on my shelves.

 

But then it took a bit for me to actually get to the reading of it part, and so I forgot how it got there.

 

Oops.

 

ANYWAY.

 

If you know me, then you'll know I'm also a sucker for anything and mostly everything related to either WWI or WWII as I firmly believe we should remember (though not to the detriment of making progress and taking huge leaps forward). So naturally, seeing that one of my favourite stories was tweaked to fit into a WWI timeline, that caught my interest.

 

Jane Austen is a favourite of mine and has been for a while, but I will say that seeing Elizabeth and Darcy in a different setting is also quite amusing.

 

So let's go ahead and have a look at Darcy's Hope: Beauty from Ashes, which is a WWI Pride and Prejudice variation story!

 

Pride and Prejudice (Booktober)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in

 possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

 

Who didn't see this one coming? Of course you can't really have any kind of autumnal read without a Jane Austen novel. In this case, Pride and Prejudice is pretty much the author's most read and known work, and it also happens to be my favourite (sharing the spot with Persuasion). The timeless classic that features Lizzy Bennett marching across the wet fields to give Mr. Darcy a piece of her mind is one of those you can't miss out on during a long, rainy autumn afternoon.

Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

(from Goodreads)

xx

*image not mine

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Talkie Tuesday: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie 

in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

Hello everyone!

This blog post is LONG overdue. 

And I mean, extremely overdue.

The thing is, sometimes when I'm typing things up and posting them on here, what happens is that I want to get the most obvious (and usually the most novel at the time) choices out into the open, which doesn't include some of those that are left in my little notebook.

So, accordingly, I reach some much longer after I should have, I suppose.

That being said, it really is a shame that I've only just gotten to this particular movie as I can well remember LOVING it when I saw it. I was hugely skeptical for a majority of reasons (all of which have to do with how the production houses handle the undead nowadays) but insanely glad when I got over that and made myself sit down, and watch it.

I'm talking about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, of course.