I hope you enjoy my postings and reviews and share my blog with friends. There will be no advertising since I'm not interested in making money, just sharing. All discussions will be related to books and reading. Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.For 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian.
“We are neither of us the people we were then. My unconscious hope was for them to still be as special to me six years after their wedding, but they weren’t. I wanted more of the sexual tension between Lizzie and Darcy, which, of course, after six years of marriage will have waned or disappeared all together. I would have loved it more if I did not love Pride and Prejudice the way that I do. Honestly, the book is authentic and Austen may have enjoyed it herself. New characters are introduced, and James did a lovely job of making it seem like they should have been there all along. Darcy and Lizzie are still in love and Jane and Bingley are as sweet as can be. Bennett is still a calming presence among chaos. Wickham is still a jerk, Lydia is still a loudmouth, Mr.
She is true to the characters of the original story. My disappointment is by all means more my fault than the author’s. The title tells us that is what is within the pages of this book.
All of these took a back seat to a murder mystery in this book. I love Jane Austen, I love Lizzie and Darcy and Jane and Bingley, and I love Pemberley. Like I said above, I did enjoy reading this book, but I think my sights were set too high.
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