Jane Eyre

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Sense And Sensibility And Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters (Quirk Classics, tpb, 344 pp, $12.95, out September 15)
This Jane Austen lady just May have a promising future as a genre writer. Her earlier volume, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (co-written by Seth Grahame-Smith), was a Quirk bestseller and quite a fun read with its gaggle of young British women searching for husbands while battling rampaging zombies and (occasionally) ninjas in Regency England. Actually, I thought that book could have used More zombies. One scene expostulating about local farmers harvesting extra zombies for profit and the inevitable bounty hunters tracking down zombies to earn big bucks might have served as the entire premise of someone else’s book.
However, this volume is a whole other kettle of fish (literally) as it subtracts zombies and ninjas from the Austenian formula, substituting rampaging marine life and (arghhh! »
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Tanner Hall is a "vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England town, the knot of adolescent complexity is unravelled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls."
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- - - The NY Times' The Moment wrote a very interesting piece that offers more than a background of the filmmakers and the direction they decided to take to come up with this coming-of-age film:
"Tanner Hall" is the first feature film by Tatiana Von Furstenberg, the daughter of the fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, and Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. The two women, who became close friends while attending Brown University, wrote and directed the coming-of-age story about a group of friends at a New England all-girls school. Von Furstenberg and Gregorini knew instinctively that making a »
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Tanner Hall is a "vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England town, the knot of adolescent complexity is unravelled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls."
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- - - The NY Times' The Moment wrote a very interesting piece that offers more than a background of the filmmakers and the direction they decided to take to come up with this coming-of-age film:
"Tanner Hall" is the first feature film by Tatiana Von Furstenberg, the daughter of the fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, and Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. The two women, who became close friends while attending Brown University, wrote and directed the coming-of-age story about a group of friends at a New England all-girls school. Von Furstenberg and Gregorini knew instinctively that making a »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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