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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith

#zombie
#hauntsandhexes
I haven‘t read this one
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 🧟‍♀️ 5d

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willaful

Frankenstein | Ludworst Bemonster

Anyone who loved the ten little girls in two straight lines will be tickled by this parody version.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam

#Chocolatiers #OneSnackToRuleThemAll @Bookwormjillk

Bookwormjillk 🍫🍫🍫 6d

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JuliaTheBookNerd

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith

#Zombie 🧟

#HauntsAndHexes 🎃👻🍁🕸️🦇🧹🐈‍⬛🌙🪄

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🖤🖤 1w

Eggs Brilliant 🧟‍♀️ 6d

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Kerrbearlib

Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Search and Find Parody (Star Trek Fan Book, Trekkies, Activity Books, Humor Gift Book) | Robb Pearlman

Can‘t wait to read this one! @MelanieMoon

MelanieMoon Thanks! 2w

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MelanieMoon

Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Search and Find Parody (Star Trek Fan Book, Trekkies, Activity Books, Humor Gift Book) | Robb Pearlman

I recently received this wonderful gift! It‘s really fun! LLAP!🖖 #StarTrek

Kerrbearlib

Kerrbearlib I love it! LLAP! 🖖♥️ 2w

MelanieMoon @Kerrbearlib thank you! 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

Nonsense Novels | Stephen Leacock

so-so

Not quite the thoughtless diversion I first took it for, which actually makes sense, because the sharply satirical Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is the whole reason I picked up another work by Stephen Leacock.
I'll admit some of these entries - it's a collection of ten short stories - read a little goofier than others, but once you realize it's as much a commentary on different types of classic stories as it is a collection of individual 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? silly narratives, it's a bit more intriguing to pick out how Leacock is sending up the various genres: detective story, ghost story, chivalric romance, dramatic but not tragic gothic romance or is it?, country bumpkin corrupted in the big city, a series of diary entries pining over a forbidding love, a Scottish romance leaning a bit more tragic, a sailor tale, a Christmas tale - maybe poking a bit at Dickens?, and early sci-fi/time travel/ 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? social commentary.
These are genre send-ups, so the form is fooled with to the extent that most stories are actually a dark comedy of errors, many people are obviously made fools of by conmen or shown to be fools by their own actions, naming schemes are often ridiculous (which I fear wanders past stereotypical into xenophobic/racist when the tales have a clear cultural origin 😬), 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? and women come off looking slightly worse than men overall. The sci-fi story in particular, as sci-fi often does, comments clearly on the values of the time it was written in, and so you get a side order of hurray capitalism/puritanical work ethic, with a sprinkle of women are silly, whether because of how they choose to enjoy fashion or because they campaign for votes and equal rights and that means they want to be 'like men'. 😮‍💨 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 For the record, the casual mention of suicide and mistreatment of children seems to be inserted more carelessly into the text than it would be these days, so be warned.
I don't actually think this book offers enough to the modern reader that you need to seek it out, but it hasn't completely put me off checking out Leacock's other works either.

⚠️mention of suicide, cannibalism, child abandonment, infanticide, misogyny (edited) 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Nonsense Novels | Stephen Leacock

My new (old?) definition of a comfort read: a book which “may bring some passing amusement...or some brief respite when the sadness of the heart or the sufferings of the body forbid the perusal of worthier things.“

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