This is your Brain on Books. (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith)

I am a terrible blogger! I want to apologize for the delay, I have been incredibly busy going to Zac Brown Band concerts, balloon races, and getting ready for my impending move to Georgia for graduate school. But somehow, in between all of that, I managed to read a couple of books.

First up: a satirical take on Jane Austen's masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. A few years ago, a non-fiction writer named Seth Grahame-Smith decided to take his life into his own hands (those Austen fans can be a rabid bunch) and write a rather different take on Austen's book. The result? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

For the record, I hate zombies. They're rather stupid, aren't they? And not at all hard to kill, like say, vampires. Or werewolves. Or Lord Voldemort.

But back to the book at hand. It's definitely funny! And this coming from a girl who has read P&P several times, notably on the L going into downtown Chicago when I was in 7th grade...but I digress. I love Austen, but this is a really fun and interesting take on her book. Lizzy and Darcy are both badass, and Jane is not quite so annoying with all her "oh, I'm so in love with Bingley" stuff that she throws out every few pages. It's like a feminist take on Austen, where the ladies in the book are not such ladies that they can't kill a few zombies (and ninjas too. Did I mention that? Lady Catherine de Bourgh has a squad of ninjas as protectors.)

But it is a really fun book to read, it just took me a few days. The basic plot of the book hasn't changed much, but the characters do read a little differently and there's much more action. Check it out if you have some free time, and you like Jane Austen, or Zombies, or both.

Until next time (later today), Happy Reading!