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Loading... The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennetby Bernie Su, Kate Rorick
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Lizzie Bennet, the heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is alive and well and living in America. Her sister has fallen for the rich new neighbour, Bing Lee, through whom Lizzie meets Darcy, Bing Lee's contemptuous and sharp-tongued friend. The retelling of Pride and Prejudice through this lens is based on a YouTube series with which I am unfamiliar, but even though I didn't have that background, I was pleased by the book. Although the novel would probably be classified as "chick lit", there is a lot of truth and a lot of feeling in this story about family and love. I recommend this novel for all Pride and Prejudice fans. ( ) A serviceable retelling of Pride and Prejudice, with some character deletion or re-arranging, but which include the standard P&P plot beats. With the exception of the central 'main characters (first) vblog is successful enough to base a business on" the modernization choices worked fairly well, though lack of Austen-like distance in the Lydia's resolution was not a strength. If you are a fan of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, you will like this book. If you were not a fan, you probably won't. If you had never heard of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, stop reading this review right now and go here and start watching. I listened to the audiobook of this, read by the talented Ashley Clements, and it was amazeballs. She got each characters' voice down perfectly. It was so awesome. This book complements the YouTube series, and I loved the behind-the-scenes looks to events that we did not see on-screen, while at the same time still including stuff that happened in the series. It was lovely and it made me want to marathon watch it all again. no reviews | add a review
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"There is a great deal that goes into making a video blog. Lizzie Bennet should know, having become a YouTube sensation over the course of her year-long video diary project. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries chronicled Lizzie's life as a twenty-four-year-old grad student, struggling under a mountain of student loans and living at home with her two sisters--beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. What may have started as her grad student thesis grew into so much more, as the videos came to inform and reflect her life and that of her sisters. When rich, handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck-up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennets--and for Lizzie's viewers. Suddenly Lizzie--who always considered herself a fairly normal young woman--was a public figure. But not everything happened on-screen. Luckily for us, Lizzie kept a secret diary. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet provides more character introspection as only a book can, with revelatory details about the Bennet household, including Lizzie's special relationship with her father, untold stories from Netherfield, Lizzie's thoughts and fears about life after grad school and becoming an instant web celebrity" -- No library descriptions found. |
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