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A review by shogins
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Daniel M. Lavery
4.0
(I received this this as a giveaway from Goodreads.)
Mallory Ortberg is really really funny. The Toast is probably my favorite thing on the internet. This book was good - it was funny, I enjoyed reading it, but by very nature of what it is it files trifle-y. This is not a book I'll probably ever reread, but I did thoroughly enjoy the hour or so I spent reading it!
I actually thought the ones about classics were on the whole, funnier than some of the ones about say The Hunger Games and Sweet Valley High. There are MUCH funnier things to point out about how everyone in Sweet Valley High is a murdering sociopathic narcissist. BUT, the ones about classics like Wuthering Heights (which ugh) and Dickens and Austen? Pretty great. The Prufrock one was probably my favorite!
Mallory Ortberg is really really funny. The Toast is probably my favorite thing on the internet. This book was good - it was funny, I enjoyed reading it, but by very nature of what it is it files trifle-y. This is not a book I'll probably ever reread, but I did thoroughly enjoy the hour or so I spent reading it!
I actually thought the ones about classics were on the whole, funnier than some of the ones about say The Hunger Games and Sweet Valley High. There are MUCH funnier things to point out about how everyone in Sweet Valley High is a murdering sociopathic narcissist. BUT, the ones about classics like Wuthering Heights (which ugh) and Dickens and Austen? Pretty great. The Prufrock one was probably my favorite!