book review: Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
The basics: Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters is a humorous take on classic literature. Ortberg humorously imagines interactions between classic characters through text message. My thoughts: I have not read many classics, but I am moderately familiar with many, many classics. And even with the classics I was not as familiar (ahem, Daisy Miller), it was still easy enough to get the jokes. I found this book best to read in short spurts because I find text speak annoying and intolerable in large doses. Yes, I use complete sentences and proper punctuation in text messages, but I have fallen hard for emojis. And it is funny. It's sometimes silly funny and sometimes smart funny. It stretches from ancient Greece ( Medea ) to modern childhood favorites ( The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High ). Reading it made me feel super smart, because I almost always got the jokes. The verdict: Texts From Jane Eyre is a fun...