I saw The Jane Austen Book Club a little while ago and so Jennie and I started reading Sense & Sensibility together but we thought it would be fun to start a Jane Austen book club. So the initial premise of my thoughts are these: We will read the six published novels, the Juvenilia as it is called and the two works which were completed posthumously and then read/watch The Jane Austen Book Club. We also propose that we read a book a month, get together to discuss the book and, if available, watch the movie or BBC production of the novel and then as a grand finale for our book club -- I will get the Jane Austen cookbook and we will all get together for a final dinner with dishes made from that cookbook. The order we propose is:
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous)
Persuasion (1818) (posthumous)
Juvenilia
Sanditon, The Watsons and Lady Susan
The Jane Austen Book Club
Since all of her books are, for the most part, available free on the internet the expense would be minimal and we think it would be fun to get together and talk about Jane Austen and it would give me the incentive to read them all since I have only read three. There are no restrictions on who can join. So now the challenge to those who want to join is to read Sense & Sensibility by the end of October and we'll have a meeting about that book and watch the movie (one of Jennie and my favorites) in November. Everybody game? Let's do it!!
7 comments:
YES!!!!! I love Jane Austen. Though I have read several of them myself I am more than happy to read them again. I am SO in!
Excellent! I am already to Chapter 4 and Jennie is to like Chapter 42 or something but I was reading Emma and S&S at the same time and it got so confusing that I finished Emma and now restarted S&S.
I will give it my best shot. I already have a book to read this month. I wish I could read faster or with osmosis (how ever you spell it)
I'll try. I'm still reading #4 of Twilight. But I like all those ideas! Fun and bonding!! :)
Excellent! So far we are six -- you should see if some of your family would like to join Kellie -- the more the merrier!
I'd love to join (Thanks for (not) inviting me Kellie) I happen to jump over and saw this. I'm afraid I'd be left behind now. I can't even join my own ward's book club because of interfering conflicts! Do you barrow each others book or what? Maybe I should wait to read the next one?? It sounds like fun though.
If you don't own the books, like me, you can go check out dailylit.com to receive installments of the book into your e-mail. Others may have other suggestions, but that's what I do.
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