This was a really sweet, romantic book. It's slow moving but kind of grabs you at the end. I liked also that I know most of the spots she talks about (Davis is about 1/2 hour from me).
There are few books I would call elegant - this is one of them.I was more than pleasantly surprised by the constructed simplicity of The Jane Austen Book Club. I had seen the movie - which was perfectly enjoyable - and had taken a look at the chick-lit cover, and thought I would be in for a very lig...
The book is divided into six sections, preceded by a prologue introducing the characters, and followed by an epilogue. In each section one of Jane Austen's novels is read and discussed by the six members of the book club, but very little exploration of Austen's novels really take place. Instead, eac...
It is difficult to give my opinion about this book, because when I just started reading I was not sure I wanted Jane Austen’s work analyzed, but a bit further down the road I wished there was more analyzing of the books. It now seemed for me the book club could have read books by any author,...
I have to say that there were a number of sentences and paragraphs in this book which I enjoyed tremendously. However, as a novel I don't think it hung together very well, and the connection to Austen was tenuous at best.
I remember reading "The Club Dumas" by What's His Name (too lazy to look it up) and thinking, "What the hell is going on?" This is because I was too lazy to read the books referred to by the obvious titular intertext. Thankfully, with this one, I have read the obvious titular intertexts, so I wasn't...
As much as I wanted to like this book, i had a bit of a hard time with it. I kept trying to keep up with the Austen references, but I wasn't that familiar with Jane Austen, though I have read all her books. i assumed that the author was mirroring the book club characters with Austen characters, but ...
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