Book Review: Georgiana Darcy's Diary

Summery:  

Mr. Darcy's younger sister searches for her own happily-ever-after...

The year is 1814, and it is springtime at Pemberley. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married. But now a new romance is in the air, along with high fashion, elegant manners, scandal, deception, and the wonderful hope of a true and lasting love.

Shy Georgiana Darcy has been content to remain unmarried, living with her brother and his new bride. But Elizabeth and Darcy's fairy-tale love reminds Georgiana daily that she has found no true love of her own. And perhaps never will, for she is convinced the one man she secretly cares for will never love her in return. Georgiana's domineering aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, has determined that Georgiana shall marry, and has a list of eligible bachelors in mind. But which of the suitors are sincere, and which are merely interested in Georgiana's fortune? Georgiana must learn to trust her heart--and rely on her courage--for she also faces the return of the man who could ruin her reputation and spoil a happy ending, just when it finally lies within her grasp.

My Thoughts (side note: no spoilers):

All right. Going to be very calm and tactful in writing this ... no silly fan-girl outbursts ... no overly emotional giggles that you all can hear from over the Internet ...

  But seriously this is one of the best books I have ever, EVER read.

  Yes, of course I was a little scared to read a sequel to marvellous Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (favourite book I will have you know) because Jane Austen did not write the sequal. 

But after reading this ... my opinion was changed. Or rather made. 

Georgiana Darcy from the BBC 1995 ... yes, she has blonde
hair and the girl on the cover of the book had dark hair. She
had dark hair in the book like her brother, Darcy.  :) Strange
they made her a blonde in the miniseries ...

  All right, if you have not read Pride and Prejudice, or watched one of the movies (I would heartily suggest the  BBC 1995 version) ... just go and read the book and then read this 'cause you not gonna get anything from this if you don't. :)

  *points finger at followers*

 Sooooooo ... how did I like this?? Well, seeing I stayed up last night until 3 o'clock (AS IN THE MORNING) I think one might say I enjoyed it. No joke.

  But back to the point.

  I guess you may have guess I liked this. Wrong!! Flat out loved this book. Read it on our family's IPad, could not put that IPad down, and I was having fan-girl antics all night. Very likely because I was going delirious ... or just because it was pure awesomeness.  

 All the characters from P&P which were mentioned were VERY true to the book. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy were giving me happy tears and giggles ... I am a HUGE fan of P&P and so what do I do?!? 

  This diary had so many funny, and happy, and sad, and wonderful parts in it. I was so rapped up into it. One of the funny parts was that Col. Fitzwilliam was following Georgiana because he thought "a certain rat" (you will know who I am talking about if you read the book   hint hint hint :) ) was going to try to approach her again after coming to Pemberly and demanding "something" from her brother (Darcy) and, well, he ended up punching a person who was NOT "the rat" in the face ... died half laughing and half crying. 

 I really love how Georgiana becomes more open and courageous. And I really love the way she slowly but surly gets her cousin, Anne de Burgh out of the shadow of her mother. Oops ... Don't guess that was a spoiler. Again you will just have to know the characters to know who I am talking about. 

  

  Wonderful book. The authoress outdid herself. :)

  I will be re-reading this defiantly. 

  As far as who I would recommend to read this ... well, certain parts tend to get a little ...  "roWWWWmantic" ! Try to read that in a swoony voice 'cause computers cannot yah know. ;)   

  So, I would suggest that you are in your teens before you read this.

 Anyway, very good book. Enjoyed every minute. A lot of twists and turns until it ends ... lots of suspense, too. It is definitely an attention-keeper There is a second book that goes on from the ending of this one ... must get!!!

  You can get the book free on your Kindle here on Amazon.com .

  But, anyway, thank you for reading.

Movie Review: Persuasion (2007)

 SIDE NOTE TO FOLLOWERS:  I am hopefully going to start a "Monday Movie Reviews" thing here on my blog. So keep your eyes peeled every Monday, peoples. 

 
  Well, after a good deal of thinking about it I finally managed to pluck up enough courage to grab a movie out of the "p" section of movies at our library.

  After trying out a certain version of Northanger Abby (I think it was the 2007 version) I have become very careful of which adaptations I look into and try out ... seeing that the Northanger Abby I tried to watch had some ... well, some downright objectionable scenes in it. But I was very impressed with this adaptation of Persuasion.

  And nothing will persuade me otherwise.

 All right it was not perfect, but very good all the same time.

Anne and Capt. Wentworth ... anyone getting goose bumps?
Kidding ... partly anyway.

  I cannot watch any movie with my dad without my dad making horrible jokes about everyone ... and there not bad jokes.  And to be quite truthful I die laughing at his jokes. He actually suggested the name "Captain Spit-curls" for one of the persons. No, this was not a name for Captain Wentworth! The idea! *rolls eyes*

  All right to tell you the truth I was going crazy over this adaption of Persuasion! It was so good from start to finish. The characters were great from Anne Elliot to Captain Wentworth to Anne's dreadful father. So good.

   Anne Elliot was portrayed very well. Though I did think she was a little old looking and her hair was not very complementing to her face. But she had so much sweetness and all and I really loved how forbearing she was toward her father and sister, and her sister Mary.

  Her character was portrayed very close to the book's description of her. I also like her bonnet and the choices of the colours of her gowns.

  She is not exactly my favourite Jane Austen heroine but she comes a close second to Elizabeth Bennet. All right, Elinor Dashwood. No, Emma Woodhouse.

Ah, yes, there him is in all his mightiness ... :)

 Oh, forget it.  *winks*

  I love his blue coat and vest he wears at the end! All right that is not the only thing I like about this Captain  Fredrick Wentworth.

   But this guy did such a wonderful job! I really like the way he was quiet but not too quiet. He was a lot like he was in the book. And my sister is in favour of his portrayal only because she was drooling over his horse in the scene where he and Anne, Mary, and the two silly Musgrove girls, and Charles were travelling to Lime. End about that ... because I was also drooling over his horse, too. :)  *fan-girl snort*

  Again, the horse is not the reason for me liking this Capt. Wentworth.  :)

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture. 

  Lady Russell was nice and a very motherly to poor Anne. I liked her both in the book and in this adaptation.

  But I have to say her trying to persuade Anne (again) into who she was going to marry was going a little too far. *spoiler*  I mean she already convicted Anne that Capt. Wentworth was a bad match years before and she was trying to push her and Mr. Elliot together. *end of spoiler*

But I guess that was her character so let me be quiet about her. 

Left to right - Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, Sir Elliot.

 All right, this was Sir Elliot to a T! Loved the part where he was tweaking his curl in the mirror! So, so funny! My dad started laughing and actually said, "Hey, look! It is Captain Spit-curls!". There, you see? It was not said about Captain Wentworth. :) Anyway, a very well-done "Captain Spit-curls".
 And I must say, I got a kick out of Elizabeth stuffing her face with strawberries. Also I have to admit I did love her gowns. She was very much like her character in the book. Pert and utterly conceited ...

Anne, Charles (Mary's husband), and Mary

   Mary was hilarious! Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice? All right she was not exactly like Mrs. B but all her snorts, and sniffs, and moans where great. Thumbs up on her peoples.
  Charles was about as silly as his wife ... all right a little bit more serious. He lives to torment her though, I think. I laughed several times at him shooting his gun off wherever and at whomever he wanted. He kind of reminded me of a little kid. :)

William Elliot ... the jerk!!

  All right guys, this guys seriously reminds me of Joel Osteen. Don't know who I'm taking about? Click this link.

  Anyway, as soon as my mom saw him stalk into the parlour of the Elliot's house she was laughing until she was red, and she was convinced that it was him before he became a preacher.

  Need I say anything else about him ... he was so vain, and silly, and completely weird sometimes.

  As for any "inappropriate" scenes. None. Imagine that peoples? No bad scenes whatsoever. Very much why I liked this movie. There a only few things, however, I really did not like. *spoiler*  Say Anne's running thing she does at the end ... nothing like that in the book, I will have you know. *end of spoiler* 

 And the kissing scenes are ... well ... they kissed in public in the first one. A little untrue for that time period. But they sure went around the cowshed about finally catching up with each other ... *HUGE SPOILER* like eight years! :)  *end of HUGE spoiler*
  But I do like Persuasion very much. The scenery was outstanding, when they did not show Bath and the beach/rocks ... but those places where supposed to be that way.

My rating - five stars all the way!!

Thanks for reading.

Awwww! just had to post this. One of my very favourite

scenes EVER! 

"Too bad Elliot had to bust it up..." ... my sisters line, not mine. :)

My other blog!

   So before I started this blog I wrote one on period drama, classic novels, and basically that was all. It was named Miss Emma Woodhouse. Inspired by Jane Austen's novel Emma.

  But I have changed the name and the theme. Also the overall idea of Emma is not there anymore. I hope you will check this new blog out. Right here. It is named "A Thing of Beauty" and I try to post things that give the thought of beauty. =)

  When I started that blog I wanted to only talk about Jane Austen. Anne of Green Gables. And other movies that have ladies in long gowns and men in top hats. Now I want to post not only about that, but also the most beautiful thing in the world. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

  For a while now I have been struggling with the assurance of my Christianity. My dad helped me more than I even know. I now am certain that the Lord is my saviour and lord. And I am more than willing for him to take the reins and lead my life.

  I just wanted to share that will you all. And please follow my new blog. :P
Thank you.