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I gotta tell ya, with all this summer theatre going on – not to mention the new network scheduling of new shows at this time of year (Rookie Blue, Combat Hospital and Murdoch Mysteries, to name a few) – it’s been a challenge to find time to read.

So I’ve been trying extra hard this week, now that SummerWorks is over, to get back to a novel that I started reading at the end of June. I know. I’m bad. The book, however, is most decidedly not. Here’s the opening line:

It is a truth most universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

For those of you who are Jane Austen fans, you will recognize this as a re-write of the opening line of Pride and Prejudice – in this case, it is the opening line of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a delightful genre mash-up by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Grahame-Smith also penned the mash-up Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which I have yet to get my hands on.

At this point, I’m now three-quarters through P&P and Zombies – and thoroughly enjoying it. Before I’ve even finished it, I highly recommend it.

Have you read Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter – what did you think?

p.s. – Very happy to see (on Wikipedia) that both books are being adapted into movies!

One response to “Jane Aww-sten”

Tina

August 24, 2011

Yeah – “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is great – I read it shortly after appearing in Christina Calvit’s stage adaptation of “P&P” a couple years ago, and LOVED it! Such a clever integration of Austen’s original plot and recognizable dialogue with the new stuff. Elizabeth Bennet makes a kick-ass zombie hunter, and Charlotte’s degeneration was heartbreaking, but also hilarious. Must get hold of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” – I’ll try anything about vampires.

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