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David McK (3576 KP) rated Shanghai Noon (2000) in Movies

Jul 23, 2023

Shanghai Noon (2000)

2000 | Action, Comedy, Western

7.8

(6 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Easy-going martial arts Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson (and Lucy Liu) film, with Chan portraying the party of a Chinese Forbidden City Imperial Guard soldier who travels to the Wild West of America to rescue the kidnapped Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), and falls in with outlaw Roy O'Bannon (Wilson) along the way.

As a Jackie Chan film, you pretty much know what to expect: lots of martial arts slapstick in his own inimitable style (and pidgin English, which is still a lot better than my non-existent Chinese!) and a few 'that's a terrible name for a cowboy' puns along the way!

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) created a post

Jun 30, 2024

My June 2024 reads!

19 reads this month! Taken my time this month reading has definitely been a therapy.

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
1 ⭐️⭐️
0 ⭐️
2 DNFS

My favourite book of the month was High Moor this was an old fashioned English werewolf story set in the 80s and current day so good!

My least favourite was Zombie Insurance this was an arc and I honestly don’t know how I finished it

My DNFS were at 2 which was great for me

Book of the month High Moor

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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Unmarriageable: A Novel in Books

May 7, 2019

Unmarriageable: A Novel

Soniah Kamal | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

9.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

One of these days I really need to read Austen. I enjoy so many retellings - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Bridget Jones' Diary, and I know I have a copy of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre around here somewhere! (And now that I pulled up The Lizzie Bennet Diaries to link it here, I'm sorely tempted to sit down and watch the whole thing again but I have books to read!)

Anyway. Austen. I've read a bunch of retellings but believe it or not, I haven't read the original. I really need to get on that, but instead, I read Unmarriageable, which is Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan! It's SO GOOD. The themes of family honor, class structure, and rumors damaging reputations translates incredibly easily into Pakistani society, which is why Soniah Kamal wrote it. In her Afterword, she writes:

"Was there any worry more Pakistani than the concern about what might bring a family honor or dishonor? .... Was there anything more Pakistani than [Charlotte's] calculated, 'arranged' marriage? ... Was there anything more apropos to Pakistan than class issues, snootiness, and double standards?"

She goes on to say she was already reading the book as if it was set in Pakistan, so why not write it that way for other Pakistanis? Kamal explains that Pakistan is very much a mix of Pakistan and English culture, and that the emphasis on learning English and English culture comes at the expense of their own indigenous culture, something forced upon them by colonizers. Unmarriageable is her way of melding the two cultures.

I really enjoyed this version of the classic, and it has me even more interested in other versions, such as Ibi Zoboi's Pride and Sonali Dev's Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors. Book Riot actually ran a short list recently on diverse Austen retellings, and I've added every one of them to my To-Read list!

You can find all my reviews (and links to the things mentioned above) on my blog, http://goddessinthestacks.com