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Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whilst it makes for a nice framing device, and a nice opportunity for satire, I enjoyed the sections relating to the TV show ‘Eligible’ (think ‘The Batchelor’ but…worse somehow) the least – but that’s probably because I’m really not a fan of reality TV. Of course, there are a few minor niggles. a bit like another Alexander McCall Smith novel. As for McCall Smith’s ‘Emma’? Whilst I like his writing well enough (especially his warm and gently Mma Ramotswe detective series), there is an element of McCall Smith’s writing that leaves everything feeling well…. McDermid’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ was, alas, a DNF as soon as I realised I was supposed to buy the idea that a modern teenager with a smartphone would genuinely believe vampires existed. I read Trollope’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and, for what it was worth, enjoyed it in spite of the fact that it changed very little of the original – which works absolutely fine in Austen’s nineteenth-century but arguably less so when transposed to the twenty-first. So far, Joanna Trollope has tackled ‘ Sense and Sensibility’ to modest reviews, Val McDermid’s ‘ Northanger Abbey’ received a somewhat controversial reception and Alexander McCall Smith’s ‘ Emma’ was warmly received but flew a little under the radar. ‘Eligible’ is the fourth book in The Austen Project, a HarperCollins published pairing of six bestselling modern writers with six of Austen’s classic works. ![]()
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