A review by rebeccalm
Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House by Sarah Waters

Did not finish book.

This book was given to me many years ago as a gift, and I only just picked it up to try and read very recently. I hadn't realized that it was a compilation of short stories submitted for a prize competition and that they were to be written with a general theme of Austen in mind and that the book wasn't an actual full narrative...So I didn't quite realize what I was getting into when I started reading. I got through the first two essays and decided not to continue. I found them to be very short essays that didn't delve into much at all, covering an array of topics and themes - it felt more like trying to grade papers than reading a good book of short stories. Maybe someone else will love it for all the reasons I don't, but either way, I wasn't going to commit any more time to it. Not for me at all.