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by jane austen this is actually the second time i ve read this book though the first time was exactly 13 years ago and didn t leave me with a very positive experience a link to my previous book review will be at the end of my current thoughts jane austen s witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud mr darcy and the prejudiced elizabeth bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eigtheenth century drawing room intrigues this book is definitely a look into the life and society of england in the late 1700s early 1800s and i think it s a world that current me would have found absolutely infuriating the good news is that current me does not have to live in the world described in this story and it provided me vast amounts of entertainment to think about how current me would interact in this society if i was randomly teleported back in time to this era i would have started many scandals by simply speaking my mind without having a thousand different social cues that are supposed to mean something but only if you know and understand them i would also have worn men s clothes and avoided societal expectations of marriage i also would have struggled with calling everyone by their last names or trying to keep up with which ms bennett we re talking about since gossip was a primary entertainment function i would have been even more of a nusance to them and that society than i am today to my own with that said i do see why so many people list this book among their favorites i very much understand the appeal to the reading tastes of england at that time where this story would have functioned exactly like the happily ever after and wish fulfillment fantasies i m sure many women had at that time and maybe even have today you ve got your very average family with too many people and not enough resources to support all of them so someone needs to get married into a rich household so that you and all your sisters will be supported for the rest of your lives no matter what era you live in most people who are starving and on the streets don t have the resources to live their best lives and part of this average family is an intelligent father with a good enough job and a personal library a mother who is maybe a little detached from reality the perfect daughter who truly is a very good and positive individual the wild and crazy i will happily love all men daughter the two youngest daughters who emulate the others in their life because they don t know any differently and then the protaganist who is intelligent but very judgmental and then enters the rich men we re introduced to fitzwilliam darcy because of his association with charles bingley and fitzwilliam definitely spends a good portion of the book very full of himself when he admits his feelings to elizabeth his comments are some of the most pretentious words strung together in paragraphs he clearly feels superior to literally everyone he interacts with and he basically tells elizabeth that she s super inferior but you know he totally digs her anyway it s no surprise at all that she tells him to get lost i mean it s a surprise to him because he s clearly never been rejected before but to the readers and to elizabeth his only positive trait is that he s rich there s learning and growth for both elizabeth and for fitzwilliam and i found that truly admirable that both of them admitted their faults at the very least to themselves if not to others or expressed through massive letters i read this book because i m working on making this a special edition bookbinding project and it seemed like a good idea to familiarize myself with the text in order to provide appropriate artistic insight into the book design as much as this book is not something i normally read there are no dragons magic systems aliens or knights in this book i did enjoy the cultural aspect of reading this story with the idea of making art out of it and you know past me was really prejudiced and full of pride it s kind of interesting how much a person can learn and grow in 13 years and how we learn to look at things through different lenses i can say i appreciate this book a lot more now that i m older with more life experience but it s still not a book that i need to reread so it s going to stay as a very low two on my rating scale my previous book review is here https cajacobs com 2013 01 16 review pride and prejudice by jane austen austen jane pride and prejudice random house inc 1996 posted in book reviews tagged book review books jane austen pride and prejudice leave a comment movie review the lord of the rings the return of the king extended edition posted on january 20 2026 by c a jacobs finishing the story to remember hope in this world i rewatched the lord of the rings the return of the king extended edition this is not a spoiler free review the final battle for middle earth begins frodo and sam led by gollum continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of mount doom in order to destroy the one ring aragon struggles to fulfill his legacy as he leads his outnumbered followers against the growing power of the dark lord sauron so that the ring bearer may complete his quest something festers in the heart of middle earth yeah that s an understatement both in this movie and in our current world the beginning of each of these movies was such a solid way to continue the story while giving the smallest reminders to the audience about what might be happening now so in the return of the king we start with smeagol s story and his turn into gollum a story so far in his own past he probably hasn t even thought about it in lifetimes and i say in lifetimes because smeagol gollum is very very old hundreds of years or more what a strange use of long life to have no goal no purpose no true joy for hundreds of years and to just focus only on survival and eating fish in a dark cave maybe that s some sort of lesson for all of us as much as it s feels maybe better for our mental health especially these days to just hide from the world while it burns down eventually the world will come for us and when it does it won t be pleasant but if you fight for your world even when it all feels hopeless you can bring hope to others and buy enough time for others to gather enough strength to save the world in whatever small ways they can the interesting part about this story is how it s not the typical heroes who save the day in the two towers merry and pippin are responsible for isengard s fall because they convince trebeard to rally the ents it s pippin who lights the beacon which brings rohan to the battle it s ewoyn who destroys the witch king on the battlefield here it s not isildur s heir who saves the day yes he gathers and leads the armies of men but he functions mostly as a distraction to keep sauron s eyes on away from frodo and sam and it s frodo and sam and even gollum who ultimately save the day though gollum saving the day is absolutely accidental as his only goal was to get back his precious which leads to his death and the destruction of the ring when frodo s strength finally failed him overall this movie continues the trend of being a solid five on my rating scale i m very glad i bought the special extended edition three pack on blu ray and dvd i have rewatched these movies frequently and will continue to do so in the future the lord of the rings the return of the king directed by peter jackson performances by elijah wood ian mckellen liv tyler viggo mortensen sean astin cate blanchett john rhys savies bernard hill billy boyd dominic monaghan orlando bloom hugo weaving miranda otto david wenham karl urban john noble and andy serkis with ian holm and sean bean new line cinema 2003 and 2012 posted in movie reviews tagged lotr movie review the lord of the rings the lord of the rings the return of the king leave a comment book review trickster s queen by tamora pierce posted on january 13 2026 by c a jacobs i was extremely excited when the library notified me about the interlibrary loan of trickster s queen young adult fantasy 444 pages by tamora pierce aly no longer just a master spy but a master of spies can she balance her passion for justice and her compassion for others and at what cost sarai beautiful dramatic and rash will she fulfill the role chosen for her by destiny dove she has always stood in sarai s shadow can she prove to the world that she herself is a force to be reckoned with nawat half crow half man he wants aly for his life mate but will the revolution make that impossible as they step into new roles to change the future this is not a spoiler free review i was maybe a little surprised that this book skipped the entire winter at tanair castle on lombyn island but it does make sense from a publishing perspective because there really isn t much plot relevant conflict the family mourned everyone did chores and found ways to amuse themselves during the winter aly trained other spies and sarai refused to continue sword lessons those last two points are fairly important to the rest of the story for character development purposes and i m not really sure if someone who didn t read the prologue would have the same experience i only mention this because i do actually know people who don t read prologues there were two paragraphs in this book that really struck me because this is a fantasy book published in 2004 and these paragraphs could easily be used today idiots whispered dove contemptuously don t they realize the whole city knows what it means when they put men in plate armor on the palace walls why not paint a sign that says we re frightened and hang it on the gates pierce page 55 and did the regents understand how much they revealed by ordering their men to break up gatherings surely they d been around government long enough to know it was a bad idea to let people know you feared them in groups that were not even very large pierce page 117 i guess for the context of this post in the future when it s possible someone might not be living in these interesting times of 2026 with us in the united states of america for the last year the immigration and customs enforcement has become an armed armored and masked entity using force and intimidation to assault u s citizens immigrants and non white people on the streets of u s cities this entity continues to upgrade their personnel equipment adding body armor assault rifles and helmets and driving unmarked vehicles the parallels in some of the sections of this book and the current world in which i live are extremely interesting to me especially farther into the book when the rulers behave in more and more unstable ways this is one of the many reasons why reading science fiction and fantasy stories is actually crucial to how we develop has humans even though we don t necessarily live in a world of magic and fantasy we ve all seen tyranny we ve all witnessed or experienced ourselves the plights of workers against the wealthy we ve seen starvation and deprivation and when we read these fantasy and science fiction stories we see people who see others suffering and do something about it we see justice served to greedy evil people and kindness and compassion win the day these stories give us hope that every small kindness can work towards a bigger goal a goal where we can create and live in a world governed by compassion and selflessness dove is the prime example of what truly caring about your people looks like she isn t flashy and beautiful like sarai but she does genuinely care she goes into the market and talks to everyone about how their business is doing their families what might impact their ability to live and she listens she pays attention when the merchants show concern about bad harvests and upset trade routes she pays attention to book sellers and cloth merchants and workers on the dock even more interesting to me is that dove spends all of the previous book and over half of this book believing sarai will be the trickster s queen but i ve felt this whole series as though dove was a much better fit for the role as it turns out my feelings were correct i didn t want anything bad to happen to sarai but i also didn t expect her to elope to carthak with a healer i m glad she did though because it means she ll get to have a happy life instead of the trap of royalty this was a good book and the series was a satisfying read though i m still not thrilled with how a happy ending for women means marriage and children because aly and nawat do wind up married and expecting at the end of the book overall i m going to rate this probably as a high three on my rating scale while i did borrow it from the library i might see if i can find a used copy to pick up somewhere and i am probably likely to reread the series again pierce tamora trickster s queen random house inc 2004 posted in book reviews tagged book review books tamora pierce trickster s queen leave a comment movie review the lord of the rings the two towers extended edition posted on january 12 2026 by c a jacobs continuing my need to remember hope in this world i rewatched the lord of the rings the two towers extended edition this is not a spoiler free review the fellowship has broken but the quest to destroy the one ring continues frodo and sam must entrust their lives to gollum if they are to find their way to mordor as saruman s army approaches the surviving members of the fellowship along with the people and creatures from middle earth prepare for battle the war of the ring has begun this is definitely the dark part of the story frodo and sam are lost in the misty crags merry and pippin are captives of the uruk hai aragon legolas and gimli have been running for three days with no food gandalf and the balrog fought through the center of the world like nothing is going okay directly from the beginning of the movie gollum apparently lives to be dramatic so much drama but it s obvious from frodo s first interactions with smeagol gollum that frodo sees his own future in gollum frodo sees how the one ring drove gollum to obsession and madness he s seen how the one ring impacts literally everyone around him from bilbo s lapses to lady galadriel s terrifying dark queen routine and then boromir s change from protector to almost thief enemy he s seen the wraiths of the nine kings of men he s seen how horrible everything is for everyone who interacts with the one ring but he knows that if he doesn t do something the world he loves the world of song dance and comaradarie will die as well everyone he knows and loves he also maybe hopes that by treating smeagol as a person with kindness perhaps if he becomes that far gone someone will in turn treat him with kindness so yes it s pity that stays frodo s hand and doesn t kill him but it s also understanding the lack of women in this entire story really does bother me i know it s a product of the times from when j r 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