March/April Book

I know we are all crazy busy, so I decided to give us 2 months to read the next book. This one I think will be a fun one. I have never read the original Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. Shocking, I know! A former English major. It's shameful, so I think this is a good pick. Now, if you are a die hard Austen fan, I have been told that you need to read this book and take it for the humor it is imposing on this classic. So friends, without further adeux,




Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahme-Smith.

"This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves?" --Mary Ellen Quinn