February 20-21, 2016
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Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books
Cee @ The Novel Hermit
Hazel @ Stay Bookish
Mel @ The Daily Prophecy
Along with reading, listening to music and watching movies are currently big to-dos for my entertainment. I love when I find crossovers with favorite books into these other media. Below are some interesting finds for my all-time favorite classic book...
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READ it in daily calendar format...
READ a retelling...
A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
(The Austen Project #4)
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Release date: April 19, 2016
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From the “wickedly entertaining” (USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife, comes a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. A bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the twenty-first century.
This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help—and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.
Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master’s degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won’t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane’s fortieth birthday fast approaches.
Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip’s friend neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . .
And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.
Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible both honors and updates Austen’s beloved tale. Tackling gender, class, courtship, and family, Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.
IN audio (sampler clip)...
read by Rosamund Pike (available here)
IN Japanese manga...
(Manga Classics)
by Stacy King, Po Tse (Illustrations), Jane Austen
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IN Kpop...
Pride and Prejudice by Zico (feat. Suran)
IN food...
Anniversary Notions Sampler
from Bingley's Teas (here)
IN lingerie (ahem)...
lingerie at Hot Topic (here)
AND of course, currently in theatres...
Based on book by: Seth Grahame-Smith
which is based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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