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In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.
Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
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Julie wrote on 7/18/2007...
10 member(s) found this review helpful.
Quick fun read. Good for the beach, or a Saturday morning during the winter. Has synopsis' of Austen's books. Interesting, though simple characters. Guess the focus was on Austen more than the book club members.
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really enjoyed this book...six people are a part of an Austen-all-the-time book club. Through reading Jane Austen's six books, the book club members reveal more of themselves to the reader. As a lover of Jane Austen's work, I enjoyed reading this book...if nothing else, it made me want to read Austen's classics once again!
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Even though I've only read one Jane Austen book I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and the characters were likable.Unlike other books I've read centered around book groups the characters were easy to keep track of and their lives were interwined which made the book flow together.
Dory K. (
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was a fun quick read. Especially good if you happen to know all the Jane Austen books, but the author includes a synopsis of each book along with all kinds of interesting commentary.
Jessica M. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very cute and interesting for such a short read. I found that I was very invested in the characters extremely quickly. I love the conversations about Jane Austen's books too.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Even though I knew nothing about Jane Austen, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and the stories of the individuals portrayed within.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
A witty meditation on how the books we shoose, choose us too.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Fowler does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life that Austen's work falls away like a husk. It's an impressive feat of homage, since Fowler essentially borrows Austen's great themes...and makes them her own.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
A must read for any Jane Austin fan. I was disappointed with how little Jane Austin was really in the story, but it's a fun read anyway.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
couldn't get into it. might appeal to the more erudite types.
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Fluff, it's fine for summer reading. It did actually inspire me to read some Jane Austen which I really loved!
I wanted to like the characters but I couldn't relate to them and it seemed to go on and on without much happening. So many people loved this book...I couldn't get through it.
"Fowler's funniest fiction yet, a novel about how we engage with a novel. You don't have to be a student of Jane Austen to enjoy it, either...Lovers of Austen will relish this book, but I envy any reader who comes to it unfamiliar with her. There's no better introduction."
The story of several women and one man whose lives revolve around Jane Austen's stories.
Members of a book club read the works of Jane Austen and the author uses the club as a way to bring these very varied cahacters together.
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