Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #7: A Book About BooksI like Jane Austen and have read all but one of her novels ([book:Mansfield Park|45032] -- but I'll get to it!) Still, somehow there is something about me that seems to be fundamentally different from the scores of Austen's devotees, as se...
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first-century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler’s fiction, and in The Jane Austen Book Club, the complex dance of modern love has never been s...
I decided to read this book when I saw it in a second-hand bookshop and realised that it had the same title as one of my favourite movies. I couldn’t wait to jump back in the world of Jane Austen fanatics, only this time in the written manner.The Jane Austen Book Club, as the name suggests, is a boo...
3 - 3.5 starsThis review contains MINOR spoilers. Nothing that will give away anything about the story itself - i promise. 1. I liked how in April the last part was about Austen and her strugles to be published. I had no idea that Pride and Prejudice's original title was "First Impressions". 2. Prud...
I read this book after seeing the movie made from it. And while I enjoyed the book, this is a rare case where I think I prefer the movie. Of course, they are by nature very different, a story expressed in two different mediums. But I think the movie pared down some of the narrative that seemed to ...
Don't let the title fool you; this isn't really a book about Jane Austen. In fact, Jane Austen and her novels only serve as the structural frame for this story; the outlining that allows the characters to meet, to interact - and the glue that binds the plot together. The core of this novel is really...
Though I haven't read much adult fiction as of late, after this delightful read, I will definitely be adding Fowler's other works to my to-read list. Though I've tried unsuccessfully to read Pride & Prejudice (it's still on my to-read list, though!), entering the world of Austen and her readers was ...
This is one of the few cases where I like the book and the movie equally, but for different reasons. I suggest starting with the film first, to get into the basic premise of the story. Reading the book after the film (or before and after it), you can appreciate how the author and the director have m...
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