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The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet
by Bernie Su, Kate Rorick
So ... I'm a huge fan of P&P and the oodles of re-imaginings of the story. When I discovered the Youtube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, I binged the whole thing and adored it (a modern take, Lizzie is pursuing a degree, a video blog is part of a school project. Jane and Lydia - just the three sisters, Mary is a cousin, Kitty is ... a cat). So OBS, TOTS (Lydia-isms) this book is connected to that, in audio, narrated by the gal who played Lizzie (and she re-creates the voices of Jane and Lydia quite well ... the others, not so much).
The author's note states that the enhanced e-book features links to the episodes. I went with audio, so I didn't see that (and had already watched the episodes). The author also states that this was written "with the intention of being able to be enjoyed, with or without knowledge of the videos" ... and I think I agree that someone could come in to just the book, and still understand. I feared, having watched the videos, that this might be a little repetitive ... but it was good, giving us more background than was in the videos, with only a couple scenes repeated verbatim. Of course, having watched the videos, I already knew the basic path the story was going to take, but that was okay, I still very much enjoyed this!
Written in journal style, except that as Lydia would say (in the next installment of the series) "who writes diary entries that perfectly describe events and conversations in a linear way, no one, that's who" (she's talking about the book Dracula for her college class) but that IS my main "really???" for any of these "diary" books. Who writes dialog in a diary? I keep a journal, and here and there I'll repeat (to the best of my memory) a statement or conversation ... but I don't write it out like dialog in a novel. Yet Lizzie does say "and yes, this dialogue is verbatim. I forget nothing".
1st person/past tense (as would be true of a diary). The "chapters" are just the daily diary dates.
This had several of my "words I track" ... deign, smirk, supercilious, rifled/riffled (this was the former), snuck (as opposed to sneaked). It also, I hate to admit, said "I COULD care less" ... that one is a pet peeve of mine. I would say, I COULDN'T care less, that's how little I care, I can't care any less about whatever it is than I do. Could be substituted with "I didn't care at all" ... But I "could" care less? How much less? If we switched that out to "I cared, but not that much, but I did still care some" ... grrrrr, you can tell this IS something I care about!
No proFanity, a little more sex, nothing at all explicit ... (I don't think these are really spoilers, but ... just in case, heads up) of course there's the sex tape of Lydia and GW, but here, Jane and Bing are getting busy, as do Lizzie and Darcy eventually. If someone is opposed to any premarital sex, our characters are not ... sometimes it's a little harder for me to accept it in beloved P&P characters, as it seems out of place, even in a modernized version.
The author's note states that the enhanced e-book features links to the episodes. I went with audio, so I didn't see that (and had already watched the episodes). The author also states that this was written "with the intention of being able to be enjoyed, with or without knowledge of the videos" ... and I think I agree that someone could come in to just the book, and still understand. I feared, having watched the videos, that this might be a little repetitive ... but it was good, giving us more background than was in the videos, with only a couple scenes repeated verbatim. Of course, having watched the videos, I already knew the basic path the story was going to take, but that was okay, I still very much enjoyed this!
Written in journal style, except that as Lydia would say (in the next installment of the series) "who writes diary entries that perfectly describe events and conversations in a linear way, no one, that's who" (she's talking about the book Dracula for her college class) but that IS my main "really???" for any of these "diary" books. Who writes dialog in a diary? I keep a journal, and here and there I'll repeat (to the best of my memory) a statement or conversation ... but I don't write it out like dialog in a novel. Yet Lizzie does say "and yes, this dialogue is verbatim. I forget nothing".
1st person/past tense (as would be true of a diary). The "chapters" are just the daily diary dates.
This had several of my "words I track" ... deign, smirk, supercilious, rifled/riffled (this was the former), snuck (as opposed to sneaked). It also, I hate to admit, said "I COULD care less" ... that one is a pet peeve of mine. I would say, I COULDN'T care less, that's how little I care, I can't care any less about whatever it is than I do. Could be substituted with "I didn't care at all" ... But I "could" care less? How much less? If we switched that out to "I cared, but not that much, but I did still care some" ... grrrrr, you can tell this IS something I care about!
No proFanity, a little more sex, nothing at all explicit ... (I don't think these are really spoilers, but ... just in case, heads up) of course there's the sex tape of Lydia and GW, but here, Jane and Bing are getting busy, as do Lizzie and Darcy eventually. If someone is opposed to any premarital sex, our characters are not ... sometimes it's a little harder for me to accept it in beloved P&P characters, as it seems out of place, even in a modernized version.