Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters Audiobook

Quotes

• “I ate it like it was candy coated in crack cocaine, it’s the best, and I need to give it to everyone.”

  — Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Signature of All Things

• This is the best kind of English-major humor. There's not a weak point in the book; it's terrific, snicker-inducing fun throughout.

  — Library Journal Starred Review

• “Ortberg finds a way of lampooning the ridiculous characters of the past thanks to her endless knowledge of and passion for western literature and history and her sharp humor.”

  — BUST magazine

• “What if the greatest characters in literary history all carried around smartphones and typed out messages to each other?…[A] highbrow yet subversive sensibility.”

  — NPR

• “Each [text conversation] brings a contemporary sensibility to timeless publications of yore. Be prepared to LOL—literally.”

  — Los Angeles Magazine

• “This makes me laugh…Cliff’s Notes seem so wordy now, don’t they?”

  — Houston Chronicle

• "[A] splendid and wry work of humor writing…Texts from Jane Eyre is to literary culture what The Daily Show is to politics: both use satire to expose the contradictions and absurdity enabling powerful figures.”

  — Los Angeles Review of Books

• “This is the best kind of English-major humor. There’s not a weak point in the book; it’s terrific, snicker-inducing fun throughout.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Humorist Ortberg offers a side-splitting take on famous literary characters from Gilgamesh to Hermione Granger by peeking into their imagined text messages, replete with emoticons, misspellings, and irregular punctuation.”

  — Publishers Weekly