Mary Ostler » Book http://www.maryostler.com Elizabethan Wood Butcher & Builder of Things Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls http://www.maryostler.com/2010/03/pride-prejudice-zombies-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls/ http://www.maryostler.com/2010/03/pride-prejudice-zombies-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:00:13 +0000 DirtyMary http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1800 In 2009 an unlikely NY Times bestseller hit the shelves. Somewhere between Stephen King, Dean Koonst, & V.C. Andrews sat and unlikely novel. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Well it’s a year later and Quirk  Books, out of the goodness of their Quirky hearts, have released on the unsuspecting public a prequel to the original book. Enter….
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies :D awn of the Dreadfuls



Once again The Bennet family children are coming of age, but this time its not all  balls & restoration society life. With the discovery that the deceased are not as dead as one might hope., Mrs. Bennets plans for favorible marriages for her daughteers take a back seat to Mr. Bennets need to equipe his children with the skills to survive.
Based loosely on Jane Austins beloved classic Pride & Prejudice, author Seth Grahame- Smith manages to warp and twist the original premise into something much more diverting.  The characters remain true to their original characters, yet at the same time learn what they are really capable off.  Flirtation, Society Status, and killing all mixed together into a frothy blood smeared slurry. What more could you want.
Is it a literary masterpiece…No. Will it be in demand 50 years from now…probably not. Is it a fun quick read that will keep you turning the page… quite possibly. All I know for sure is I enjoyed it a lot and will be talking it up at the local bookcrossing meetings.

Quirk Classics Contest
Quirk Classics are giving away 50 prize packages of a retail value of over $150. Visitors to their site that drop the name of of my blog (MaryOstler.com) are automatically entered into the contest.
Included in the prize packs
o An advance copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
o Audio Books of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
o A password redeemable online for sample audio chapters of Dawn of the Dreadfuls
o An awesome Dawn of the Dreadfuls Poster
o A Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Journal
o A box set of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Postcards

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Two weekends ago I was given a copy of  “Japanese Joinery”. Although not a historic based book, it gives a whole truck load of information on the “ART” of Japanese Temple building joinery. I am seriously intimidated by some of these joints, as they have a lot of angles, dado’s, mortise & tenon, lap joints with sliding  keys, and invisible wedging…and that can be on just one joint.

WOW… I got me a whole lot of learning to do

Thanks you Uilliam mac Fearchar mhic Gille Aindrias for the book. I am inspired and terrified all at the same time… Shiny.

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