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.
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