pickLiked learning more about Korean words, cultures, immigrant experience in NYC.
Felt the book was a bit long and some parts cringey.
I have not read Jane Eyre recently enough to remember it 😳 but a loose retelling.
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Re Jane: A Novel | 
pickLiked learning more about Korean words, cultures, immigrant experience in NYC.
Felt the book was a bit long and some parts cringey.
I have not read Jane Eyre recently enough to remember it 😳 but a loose retelling.
pickThanks, @debthmpsn and @TerriGreen for a great #BeauTEAfulBooks read! This modern re-imagining of Jane Eyre is one that I wouldn‘t have picked up in my own, and I really enjoyed it! The titular Jane is looking for a job after graduating college in NYC in 2000- she accepts a position as an au pair but as she becomes accustomed to this new family, it‘s easy to see theirs isn‘t a #HappyMarriage-plus Jane‘s own relationships need work too! #JazzyJune
so-soWhat a lot of modern adaptations of “Jane Eyre” fail to do or even attempt is something done quite well in this book: how creepy and awkward Jane and Edward‘s relationship would be, especially in the 21st century.
My friendMaria bought this for me and I finally got around to reading it. Loved the characters, dynamics, cultural and lingual articulation. Felt right to take a picture reading it from the 7 train.
Sunshine on a rainy day ☀️
pickA truly inspired reworking of Jane Eyre, Re Jane kept me guessing as it wound in and out of the Brontë novel like the 7 in and out of Flushing. The view that emerges is luminous and expansive and nuanced when it comes to ethnicity, class, feminism, immigration, family, and love. Patricia Park is visiting our shop on the 15th, and I can‘t wait to meet her!
1. Yes (but only for my mother-in-law‘s beefy cheese dip). 🏈
2. 47 😭 Punxsutawney Phil can eat my shadow.
3. Re Jane, tagged! Patricia Park is visiting our shop later this month! 😍
4. I‘m happy going anywhere with my partner, but I studied abroad in Spoleto, Italy and would love to share that city with him. Also the UK because I bet we could find some excellent old books! 📚
5. ✋️✋️✋️ #friyayintro with @jesshowbooks
pickListened to this on audio and the narrator was so good. Really enjoyed how the author retold Jane Eyre, I liked what she did to update the story.
My friend @CynthiaF.Buck gave me this book because she knows I love Jane Eyre and retellings. She also gave me this Tom Hardy portrait because she is the best friend. Happy birthday, @Liberty #LIBERTHDAY
pickConfession: The moment of after I read the last word of this book, I kissed the cover. I can't say that it is *better* than JANE EYRE, but I will say that I enjoyed it more. This, dear reader, is what a re-telling is supposed to be!
#books #recommendedreading #bookclub #janeeyre #rejane #PatriciaPark
pickI picked up this book knowing almost nothing, other than it was one 3 books recommended by Sherman Alexie at an event introducing literary debuts. Patricia Park spoke about growing up Korean in Queens. This book was her attempt to write the Great American Novel, set in a community filled with people trying to fit in while still remaining true to their family's values, norms & traditions. The voices in the audiobook really brought the story alive.
GIANT Margarita, Tacos, and Re Jane this lovely Sunday afternoon in Memphis! #booksandbooze
Sharing my list for the @EclecticReaders #ERMadLibs. I hope to keep to the list as best I can since I really want to read all of them. #BookChallenge
Weekend TBR: I am going to finish this one as my last book of 2016 and then onto #LitsyAtoZ and a #MountTBR challenge for 2017. Aloha Friday and Happy New Year! 🌅
"Reader, I left him." ??????
I really enjoyed this one, especially when I stopped thinking of it strictly as a Jane Eyre retelling because I kept forcing myself to root for Jane and Ed even when it was clearly not working. Who knows if original Jane and Mr Rochester would have worked out in the long-term (maybe bc they were both such weirdos ?), but I'm glad this story does not force them together.
pickThis was a great coming-of-age story in which Jane learns some hard and real life lessons. Having recently moved back to my hometown (which I NEVER thought would happen), I found myself agreeing w/ Jane as she realizes that life does not turn out how you think it will and that is okay. I love reading about families, so I enjoyed seeing Jane's relationship with her family evolve as they began to understand each other better. Enjoyable read!
"I was caught in a no-man's-land—the gulf between English and Korean felt wider than the East River and the Han combined.
I was lonely, my linguistic loneliness echoing the dull ache that tugged continually at my heart."
I think the problem w this book is how it's marketed as a Jane Eyre retelling. When you hear that you immediately have expectations. At least I did. Instead if you come to this book expecting a story about a young Korean-American who takes on a job as an au pair as a way to escape her miserable life working at her uncle's store in Flushing, then I think it is far more enjoyable a read than constantly wondering, is this really what Jane would do?
I was thinking of eating a bite of dinner and reading Re Jane while the kids were watching their Netflix (so I could eat in peace for a change) but they declared they were hungry. I think it's cos they knew they were having hamachi kama (yellowtail collar) and a potato carrot salad. Now some two hours later, having put them to bed I finally can crack the book open!
I was excited to see the news that Patricia Park's delightful retelling of Jane Eyre (set in modern-day Queens and featuring a Korean-American protagonist) will be adapted for television!
pickMy post for @Liberty 's #bibliogiveaway! I read this over Labor Day weekend. It wasn't my favorite but I really enjoyed it. I liked learning about a different culture and experiencing Jane Eyre again! #biblioweekend
I can't wait to start reading this ??? It seems to be a retelling of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". I must finish "A Clash of Kings" by George R. R. Martin and "Empire of Storms" by Sarah J. Maas first though. Both are amazing reads! ? I've been so blessed with my reading choices lately ?
Imagining where our coffee table will be with my latest library haul.
pickOne of my favorite passages from this very interesting book. I really enjoyed the fraught but nuanced family relationships portrayed.
pickIt's #Recommendsday! What are you recommending? "A very fascinating, absorbing Jane Eyre retelling about Korean American orphan Jane Re, set in the early 2000's. Pick it up for an empowering, contemporary take on the Jane Eyre story!" - @TirzahPrice
pickI didn't dislike this book, but it ended up not being what I thought and I think it took too long to end. I enjoyed the characters, settings, and identity struggles, and the Jane Eyre homage was nicely done. But this is not a romance!
The Jane Eyre story is not an easy one to adapt to a modern context but this retelling is immensely enjoyable so far. I can wait to see how it ends.
It's a beautiful day for book buying! Rioter @TirzahPrice picked these up today - have you read any of them?
Not pictured: at least three other books I also bought while at residency at VCFA. Yeah, I had to check my bag but the books are in my carry on.
pickJane is a Koreanish orphan of sorts living in Queens who becomes an au pair for a Brooklynite odd couple and their adopted Chinese daughter. Within this seemingly light coming-of-age novel, Park also packs in the human side of immigration, adoption, and families of all kinds. -Melinda
so-soI'm a sucker for a modern retelling. I loved this concept... But it wasn't great.
I might be biased because of the way the novel treated an ambitious academic woman. I might be biased because I love Jane Eyre.
Plus, there are parts that just cringe-worthy.
On the whole it's just a "meh"z
To continue my real time reactions to this traumatic sex scene.
THE SOCCER SHORTS RETURN!
😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
IT GOT LESS SEXY!!!
I literally said "gross" out loud while reading.
This is supposed to be sexy...why did I just suffer a full body cringe?
Soccer shorts...
A book is starts in New York in the year 2000
A book mentions the World Trade Center in the first chapter
As a book reaches its midway point it's almost September 2001...
Now I'm not a fancy, big-city writer, but that sounds like someone is telegraphing their protagonist's life-changing moment.
pickA contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre set in New York & Korea with a women's studies professor as the Bertha character what's not to love?
pickI'm a sucker for a modern retelling of a classic and this one didn't disappoint. Set in Flushing, Queens, Korean orphan Jane is every bit as engaging as the original. The strength of the novel is its originality, a narrative which draws you in on its own merits.
Just started and loving this modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Jane Re is a half-Korean, half-American orphan from Flushing, Queens. 50 pages in it has grabbed my attention ✌🏻️
