Emily goes on a Jane Austen book tour to skip going on a booze fueled trip to Mexico with her friend Stella. Throughout the course of the trip Emily goes deeper into Austen’s works than ever before...
One thing I immediately liked was that it wasn’t about how Emily’s single and must find a man like so many other chick lit novels out there. Like Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet, Potter had Emily’s journey to love include a journey of self-discovery.
I figured out almost immediately that there would be story overlap with Price and Prejudice. It was charming in places and in other places it kind of beat you over the head. If someone is smart enough to read P&P, they’re smart enough to get the parallels without a lot of help.
In short, it’s better than your average chick lit. It goes a little deeper with its characters and gives them more in their lives but it’s not drastically smarter.
1) Fiction
2) Nonfiction
3) Sci-Fi
4) Fantasy
5) Mystery
6) Horror
7) Memoir/Biography – Data, A Love Story by Amy Webb
8) Chick Lit – Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter
9) Feminist
10) Teen
11) Holiday
12) Essays – What Was I Thinking? ed. by Barbara Davilman & Liz Dubelman
13) Short Stories
14) Library
15) Animal
16) Book about Books
17) New – Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin
18) Old
19) Pop Science
20) Near
21) Far
22) Graphic Novel – Love and Capes: Do You Want to Know a Secret? by Thomas F. Zahler
23) Reread – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
24) Wild Card
25) Otherworldly Creature
26) Free
27) Noteworthy
28) Bestseller
29) Themed Anthology
30) Steampunk
31) Movie-Book
32) Media
33) Travel
34) Food
35) Classic
36) Humor
37) Poetry
38) Past – Stasiland by Anna Funder
39) Future
40) Dystopia/Post-Apocalyptic
41) Zombie
42) Sports
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