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Cargando... My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Parkpor Cindy Jones
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What kind of a punk ending was that? Ugh. I didn't enjoy most of this book but the ending really disappointed. The main character wasn't super likeable and there wasn't a whole lot of light-heartedness to balance out the negativity at every turn. Just when the MC began to redeem herself by pulling her head out of her hindquarters, just when the happy ending I was hoping for started to reveal itself, Bam! The end. Not a happy me. I've attended the Jane Austen Festival in Bath three times as a reenactor. For the most part, I'd say the author has got those characters down pretty good. Much as I love them, the Brits are usually the snooty ones who act more important than they should and the Americans are usually the snivelling ones who wish we could be just like them. Ha!! Trigger warning: the main character deals with some pretty heavy emotions regarding her mother's recent death. This is hinted at nowhere on the back page teaser but should have been. I don't know if I've ever been so disconnected to the characters in a book as I was in this one, and the plot in general just depressed me. If I read an Austen-inspired book, I want some of the same pleasure that I get from reading actual Austen writing. I wanted to like this book, but it just didn't happen- and the writing itself was not bad! Hopefully it's someone else's cuppa, since it isn't mine. Being a big fan of Jane Austen myself, I enjoy books like this. A fun read. FROM PUBLISHER: Lily has squeezed herself into undersized relationships all her life, hoping one might grow as large as those found in the Jane Austen novels she loves. But lately her world is running out of places for her to fit. So, when her bookish friend invites her to spend the summer at a Jane Austen literary festival in England, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself. There, among the rich, promising world of Mansfield Park reenactments, Lily finds people whose longing to live in a novel equals her own. But real-life problems have a way of following you wherever you go, and Lily's accompany her to England. Unless she can change her ways, she could face the fate of so many of Miss Austen's characters, destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. My Jane Austen Summer explores how we fall in love, how we come to know ourselves better, and how it might be possible to change and be happier in the real world.
When we first heard about Cindy Jones’ debut novel, My Jane Austen Summer, we were excited to read it. Despite our joking about His Lordship, we really do admire Mansfield Park, and found it refreshing to have an Austen-inspired novel feature MP. Fortunately in this case our anticipation was rewarded with a fun and intelligent novel in which love of Jane Austen’s work, especially Mansfield Park, shows in every word.
"When one has read the six great Austen novels...and then reread and then reread the six again, one's only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Cindy Jones's My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine." --Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the inimitable Austen--not to mention fans of more contemporary delights such as The Jane Austen Book Club. Jones's My Jane Austen Summer is a delightful, funny, poignant novel in which a contemporary woman--an obsessed Austenphile--learns much about life, love, and herself during one magical summer in England spent re-enacting Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Lily continues to make the same mistakes, regarding men and her life, up until the last twenty pages. Any revelations or epiphanies she comes to through the course of the novel tend to be forgotten in her exhausting hunt for her Jane Austen Hero. ( )