But not too close to bedtime, because nightmares.
Then one day I just said screw it and I picked it up and started reading. I let the scary cover keep staring at me as I consistently reached under it to read Pride and Premeditation (murder mystery), Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors (upscale romance), Eligible (book club), and An Assembly Such as This (alternative perspective).
I picked up the right book at a used book store and donated the wrong book.
(So far the answer to that is no, not especially.) This title floated repeatedly to the top of the lists of P & P retellings, so I reluctantly put it on my shortlist. But it kept popping up over and over, and one day I decided to read a bunch of Pride and Prejudice retellings just to wrap my mind around the genre and find out if I would enjoy reading more retellings/fan fic. (More on the movie, later.) I thought, Huh. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has been popping up in culture for the past fourteen years, first as a book and then as a movie. So was this good popular fiction? And was it too gory? Good popular fiction has become a part of my reading world. Secondly, this is not writing of the snootiest caliber, which you may have noticed I have tried to embrace to an extent-as long as it’s notable in other ways and, well, not terrible. Why is this remarkable (as in, worth remarking on)? Firstly, I hate zombies and don’t tolerate much gore. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Yeah, I did it.
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