perusing the pages… 50 in 52

someone gave me the idea of blogging the books i read. if you read one of my previous posts, you know i love books – they make great friends. so, the goal was to read and blog 50 books in a years time. i’m starting this today. hopefully i’ll come across one or two good ones that you might enjoy too. i’ve probably got a lot of travel coming up for work, which should give me ample opportunity to do 50 in 52.

no. 1
title: me and mr. darcy,
author: alexandra potter

i picked up this book thinking it sounded cute. like many girly bibliophiles, i love jane austen. i knew it was probably chick lit, but it sounded cute.

the book was ok. i would probably give it a 2.5, maybe a 3. the premise sounded great – main character, emily, is a bookstore manager with really bad luck dating recently. she gives up on love because she realizes no guy is as great as mr darcy. (note: i think we’ve all had at least one moment such as this – it may not be mr darcy, but there is always some person from the media or some character from a book/tv/movie who gets put on a pedestal and makes other seem unworthy.) rather than going on a drunken girls week in mexico emily decides to go on a jane austen tour in england. the story is set up to parallel jane’s own pride and prejudice. the flaw is that it doesn’t do a great job paralleling and the character development is slightly lacking. however, since it is a pride and prejudice parallel, it is a fun read – just not as fun as bridget jones’s diary.

it was fun, lightweight book. i didn’t have any great revalations while reading it. i did like the final point the author made – mr darcy might seem like a great date, but in the end, he isn’t real. we all need to come back to earth and find someone who we can love in spite of their flaws, which may even be what endear them to us.