false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168281885m/31677.jpg 31677 3 Anne Ehrlich is a lovely and dedicated guidance counselor who has never been married; she let the love of her life slip away when her snobbish Scarsdale family disapproved of penniless Ben Cutler from Queens. Anne hasnt seen Ben sincebut when his nephew turns up in her high school and starts applying to college, Anne starts to wonderCan old love be rekindled and past mistakes be put right? 522366 2006 Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs total:456|5:29|4:140|3:185|2:85|1:17| 456 1447 619 126 3 1 false false Fri Nov 28 14:30:30 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 14:38:32 -0800 2008 Persuasion, this is a nice novel and a somewhat sobering look at the crazy world of the college admissions process. Really, my kid is just three and I am seriously freaking fright now. Anyway, that seems to be the problem . . . too much of that and not enough about th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 20 17:15:24 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 17:52:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 16:22:21 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 16:30:02 -0700 2007
A guidance counselor at a moneyed school meets a man she once loved but threw over because of money and family. Their situations are reversed now, he is engag...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 11:35:15 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 11:38:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Aug 26 17:13:15 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 27 19:10:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Aug 28 11:16:44 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 13:18:18 -0700 2009 Unfortunately, my expectation was not met. There was certainly ...more...]]> 5 0 true false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 11 07:58:09 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 07:58:09 -0700 2009 Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs, by Paula Marantz Cohen, is one of the best Jane Austen-paralit novels I've found. I picked it up in a used bookstore for a few bucks based on the name alone, and now I really want to read Ms. Cohen's other books. Jane Austen in Scarsdale is an ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 14:25:28 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 14:31:41 -0700 2007 Persuasion a couple of weeks ago so this was an excellent pairing. This novel, set in the current ultra-competitive world of getting-into-college in the New York City suburbs, does a great job satirizing this society while sticking wi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 27 03:42:40 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 16 06:47:45 -0800 2008
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This is part of my reading for the Everything Austen Challenge, hosted at Stephanie's Written Word. I wanted to read this one because it's set in Scarsdale, New York, which is very close to where I live, and I wanted to see how Westchester County...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 07:24:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 20:04:48 -0700 2009
I was so suprised to find that it is a well written, fun and engaging book! It is supposed to be a modern day telling of my favorite Jane Austen (at lea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 01 06:06:41 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 06:55:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 20:27:13 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 21:47:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 19:27:33 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 27 21:08:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 14:21:56 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 17:25:05 -0700 2008
Anne Ehrlich is a guidance counselor at Fenimore High School. Anne’s former love Ben Cutler come...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:05:07 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 20:51:49 -0700 2009 Persuasion -- but there is so much more than that. This Anne is a high school guidance counselor and as a school employee myself, I found it quite funny and very pointed on the topic of heli...more...]]> 2 0 false true Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 21:18:35 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 21:27:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Feb 08 21:19:22 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 19:45:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 21:19:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:54:59 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 09:22:44 -0700 2008
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