Read: According to Jane: according to layD

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”


and congrats to myself..i started to read.. again.. and after browsing through my book collections in my mobile phone (yups.. its ebook.. what did u expect).. i chose ..

According to Jane by Marilyn Brant... :) usually i choose books based on
1) the cover =_= (lmao... graphic person???)
2) the title


i never read synopsis until I've read at least 1/5 of the book... let me put a little summary to it.. shall we...


"Fifteen-year old Ellie Barnett is a bookish geek. She excels at academics, but according to her caustic older sister, she is digging herself into a hole of permanent unpopularity with her scraggly hair, lack of make-up, and inattention to fashion. There is however, one boy who since kindergarten has paid her a bit more attention than she is comfortable with. Sam Blaine may be good-looking, athletic, brainy, and popular – but he is trouble – and just happens to sit behind her in English class taunting her with pokes in the back with his pencil and sexual innuendo. When she cracks open her next reading assignment, a copy of Pride and Prejudice, she begins to hear voices. Jane Austen’s British voice to be exact, interjecting observations and advice, specifically warning Ellie to beware of Sam Blaine. He is her Wickham, that charming scoundrel that wooed Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and then eloped with her younger sister Lydia. Ellie does not doubt the advice, just the whole hearing voices thing really freaks her out her out. Jane Austen’s spirit has somehow inhabited her mind, commenting in her acerbic early ninteenth-century sensibility on Ellie’s 1980’s life and romances and she does not know why. 


Over the course of twenty years, we follow Ellie through her life challenges as a single women looking for love and happiness in what Jane Austen deems to be a morally confusing world. Who of us could ever forget their own first love, the painful realization that you are being used, or the first time you were dumped? As Jane offers Ellie witty and wise advice on family conflicts, career choices, and a barrage of bad boyfriends that come and go, Ellie slowly realizes that she must learn some life lesson before she can move on. For Ellie, one painful lesson was bad-boy Sam who Jane advises to stay clear of yet she is still drawn too. As their lives keep crossing paths over the course of the years, they never seem to be at the right place at the right time to work it out. Ellie trusts and values Jane’s opinion. Who better to advise her than an author who is valued for her keen judgment of human nature and romantic insights? But with Sam, she holds strong prejudices. Could she be wrong? Is he really her Wickham, or could he be her Mr. Darcy? 


my English  is not that good ok.. i copied and paste it from some other reviewer... cause i haven't finish reading yet.. (malu).. but what i like the most about this book is.. it contains so many great quotes and advice that i could... use??? not that i need so many advice from a book... but at least i could remember or maybe re-quotes those sentences when i feel i need to.. :)


let me finish reading before i could do any summary (ceh.. dream on!... cause the will be no any summary.. lols.. ever?).. xpe.. let me enjoys this.. hiks..


(actually i nearly finished reading the abook.. or at least 2/5 of the book before i realize the ebook is not complete.. =_=.. so i delete it off and search for the new one... and re-read from beginning.. :) yeps.. i think this book worth to be re-read.. lols)


ciou.. kuci2... ;)