by Joanna Trollope
I'm just not sure about this one. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. But then again I had no trouble finishing it. I think that Trollope would have got a lot more bang for her buck if she allowed herself greater deviations from the original story. I recall that the movie Clueless was insp...
I was lucky to receive this copy from @writingatrosys via Twitter and am grateful to them and Harper Collins for allowing me an advanced copy. This review first appeared on Mrsbbooks2011/blogspot.co.uk I’ll start by saying I love Jane Austen. Hers are the books I turn to when I don’t know what to ...
Warning: I'm assuming you've read Austen's version of Sense and Sensibility as I write this review. I won't spoil how this book ends but I'll talk about actions and events that happened in the original. Austen's Sense and Sensibility (S&S) was the first of her books I ever read...seventeen years ...
This is less an adaptation than a straightforward updating of Sense and Sensibility. All characters have the same names, act in the same fashion (more or less), and follow a modernized version of almost the exact plot of the original. Although I love adaptations and appreciate it when they are fai...
Twice upon a time, there were three Dashwood sisters, though no one took much notice of the youngest one. Their father died far too young, and they and their mother were forced by their cruel sister-in-law and weak half-brother to leave the home they'd grown up in. _Sense & Sensibility_ -- the first...
From the review desk of Adm. Croft: "It won't set the Thames on fire, but there's no harm in it".
Two Sisters who could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere, as she dreams of going to art school. But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved h...
There are two kinds of re-tellings. There are those which use the original as an inspiration and which become awesome by using the original material in creative new ways. Cinder is one of my favorite examples of that kind of re-telling. This is not that kind of re-telling. This is the other kind, wh...
Fashions, technology, and protocols of society may change, but the human heart remains the same. Joanna Trollope proves that in this witty, warm, and thoroughly enjoyable update of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. It manages to stay largely true to Austen’s story even as characters text each o...
Modernised versions of Jane Austen's novels are always cropping up in current books, TV shows, films and even youtube series, so I did not approach the first offering from The Austen Project with total righteous indignation. Nevertheless, an official modern reworking of an Austen novel by a contemp...
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