Friday Bookblogging: Janeites Doin’ It For Themselves Edition
We’re kicking off a new feature at AustenBlog today: Friday Bookblogging, in which we hope to concentrate on new and notable books of interest to Janeites, blogging about Jane Austen’s novels, and other literary endeavors related to Jane Austen.
We’re still thrilled with our copy of Gothic Classics Volume 14, which includes a graphic novel treatment of Northanger Abbey as well as The Mysteries of Udolpho. We don’t have much to add to Heather L.’s excellent review, other than to assure our Gentle Readers that it is as delightful as we had hoped. As Catherine herself might have said, ”Oh, Mr. Tilney, how frightful! This is just like a movie! Well, what then?”
Moving on to non-graphical novels, Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter, one of the plethora of Time-Traveling Modern Chick ISO Mr. Darcy hitting the beaches this summer. We have not read this book yet, but a couple of litbloggers have shared their opinions. Jemima was a trifle put off by it.
Originally, when I heard the title to this new book by Alexandra Potter, I had a thought - Why isn’t it called ‘Mr.Darcy and I’? That’s more musical, I thought, and more polite. One doesn’t say, “Me and Darcy are going for a walk.” One says,”Darcy and I are going for a walk,” both for grammar reasons and for those of politeness. But I didn’t realize that the title was the least impolite thing about this book.
Ouch! (more…)
