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Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood | Abby McDonald
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Abby McDonald gives L.A. the Jane Austen treatment in this contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility. Hallie and Grace Weston have never exactly seen life eye to eye. So when their father dies and leaves everything to his new wife, forcing the girls to pack up and leave San Francisco for a relative’s house in shiny Beverly Hills, the two sisters take to their changing lot in typically different styles. Shy, responsible Grace manages to make friends with an upbeat, enterprising girl named Palmer but still yearns for her old life — and the maybe-almost-crush she left behind. Meanwhile, drama queen Hallie is throwing herself headlong into life — and love — in L.A., spending every second with gorgeous musician Dakota and warding off the attention of brooding vet Brandon. But is Hallie blinded by the stars in her eyes? And is Grace doomed to forever hug the sidelines?
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The neighbors had all long since succumbed to big-money developers who put up luxury apartment complexes with wraparound decks; charging young #professional types half a million dollars or more for a one-bedroom condo with a view all the way to the bay. But Grace‘s parents had always held fast. The ramshackle, three-story Victorian sat squarely at the top of the hill, surrounded by an overgrown garden plot that was equal parts wild roses and weeds

Christinak and spelled death to any mower that tried to tame it. #QuotsyFeb20 5y
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This Austen-esque Sense and Sensibility retelling is cute enough. It is YA and angsty and not very realistic but I plowed through it in a few hours. Perfect for a quick beach read.
#SummerOfSwoon

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