The Jane Austen Book Club

The story which takes place near sacramento california centers on a book club consisting of five women and one man who meet once a month to discuss jane austen s six novels.

The jane austen book club. The jane austen book club offers a sparkling rumination on the act of reading itself and how beloved books can serve as refuge self definition snobbish barricades against other people or pathways out of the old self to a wider world. The screenplay adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by karen joy fowler focuses on a book club formed specifically to discuss the six novels written by jane austen. However i thought fowler s book was scattered and poorly written and i couldn t finish it. A modern day book club that reads all of jane austen s novels and the participants lives become entangled and resemble some of miss austen s famous plots.

I like the story. The jane austen book club is one of those books. The jane austen book club is a 2004 novel by american author karen joy fowler. Flag 45 likes like see review.

Though i read it from the perspective of someone who has read the austen novels i m not sure that it is a prerequisite to enjoying several of the many layers of experience this book dishes up. I thought it was mediocre fan fiction. The jane austen book club based on karen joy fowler s bestseller offers a distinctive vision of hell a plane of being where there are only six novels that matter and they re consulted like.