{"id":7897,"date":"2016-09-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:41:20","slug":"manga-classics-emma-by-jane-austen-book-review-matchmaking-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7897","title":{"rendered":"Manga Classics : Emma, by Jane Austen (book review) – matchmaking & secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookMatchmaking<\/a> – so satisfying!
\nSeeing friends happy – so delightful!
\nHer own future so dull – oh, dear…<\/p>\n

Emma is sure that her matchmaking will result in happy marriages for everyone in her social circle, but she will care for her elderly father instead of ever marrying. Of course, love has other plans, and secrets, too!<\/p>\n

Enjoy the first chapter of this lively manga here<\/a> free, courtesy of the publisher, then get your own copy at your favorite local library<\/a> or independent bookstore.<\/a><\/p>\n

Especially interesting are the information sections about adapting the classic text (available in full here<\/a>) for use with this graphic format and creating these manga characters as reflections of each personality.<\/p>\n

Another in Udon Entertainment’s great Manga Classics series, like Pride and Prejudice<\/em> (my review here<\/a>) and The Scarlet Letter<\/em> (my review here<\/a>), that will help first-time readers and long-time fans alike become more familiar with the characters and plots of classic stories while reading each author’s original words – back to front, of course. <\/p>\n

So, what matchmaking have you witnessed lately?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Emma \/ Jane Austen; adapted by Stacy King; art by Po Tse. Udon Entertainment, 2015.\u00a0 [series Facebook page<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Ensuring the happiness of her friends through matchmaking leaves Emma Woodhouse little time for dreaming of her own future through marriage, but secrets and changes add to the complexities of her social circle in the English countryside.<\/p>\n

Why is Mr. Fairfax so changeable around Emma?
\nWho sent Jane a piano as a gift?
\nWhat if Emma’s friends all marry and leave her alone?<\/p>\n

Jane Austen’s 1815 tale of matchmaking and misunderstandings gains graphic form through Po Tse’s manga art, while Stacy King selects just the right passages from the classic text as each character speaks and thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matchmaking – so satisfying! Seeing friends happy – so delightful! Her own future so dull – oh, dear… Emma is sure that her matchmaking will result in happy marriages for everyone in her social circle, but she will care for her elderly father instead of ever marrying. Of course, love has other plans, and secrets, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80,50],"tags":[22,7,4,11,5,16,32,18,40,44,39,49,111,31,15,21,35],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-historical","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}