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fiveforsilver109. *Confessions of a Jane Austin Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (293)
When I think about this book, I think about three parts of it - the title, the story, and the end.
I like the title, it is in fact the reason I picked up the book in the first place, but it has very little to do with the story ('Jane Austen' is relevant, but the title as a whole? not really.).
The story. The story is about a 21st century woman, Courtney, who wakes up one morning and finds herself in someone else's body, in someone else's life, a life that could be straight out of one of Austen's books. For a long time, she thinks it's a dream, and she has trouble reconconciling her 21st-century thoughts and ideas - including ideas about hygine and privacy - with the standards of the day. It's an interesting story and the transition from 'it's only a dream' to 'this is my life now' is believably done.
Since I'm talking about the end of the book, I'll speak in as general terms as I can, but below will have some spoilers.
The end, however, was highly dissatisfying. Why did it happen? How did it happened? What happened to the 'real' Jane and to Courtney's 21st-century life? I'm not satisfied with a fortune-teller saying fortune-teller-y things like 'these things happen' and 'live your life as it is' and leaving it at that. I want answers - I don't need answers to everything, but to something would be nice, and there are none provided at all. I was very disappointed with the end.
109 / 110 books. 99% done!
50 / 75 *new books. 67% done!
3 / 10 ^non-fiction. 30% done!
30147 / 33000 pages. 91% done!
Audiobook time: 27h7m
When I think about this book, I think about three parts of it - the title, the story, and the end.
I like the title, it is in fact the reason I picked up the book in the first place, but it has very little to do with the story ('Jane Austen' is relevant, but the title as a whole? not really.).
The story. The story is about a 21st century woman, Courtney, who wakes up one morning and finds herself in someone else's body, in someone else's life, a life that could be straight out of one of Austen's books. For a long time, she thinks it's a dream, and she has trouble reconconciling her 21st-century thoughts and ideas - including ideas about hygine and privacy - with the standards of the day. It's an interesting story and the transition from 'it's only a dream' to 'this is my life now' is believably done.
Since I'm talking about the end of the book, I'll speak in as general terms as I can, but below will have some spoilers.
The end, however, was highly dissatisfying. Why did it happen? How did it happened? What happened to the 'real' Jane and to Courtney's 21st-century life? I'm not satisfied with a fortune-teller saying fortune-teller-y things like 'these things happen' and 'live your life as it is' and leaving it at that. I want answers - I don't need answers to everything, but to something would be nice, and there are none provided at all. I was very disappointed with the end.
Audiobook time: 27h7m
