In her short life Jane Austen wrote six novels; 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride And ... more
Prejudice', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma' and 'Persuasion'. These well loved English classics may have once been regarded as the province of the literatu...
Advantages: It's a reasonable chick flick. Disadvantages: It's very predictable.
When Sylvia's husband leaves her for another woman her friends rally round and start a book club to take her mind off her troubles. None of them are lucky in love. Jocelyn has decided she doesn't need love and fills the void with breeding dogs. Prudie is a high school French teacher ignored by her husband and tempted to have an affair with a student. Bernadette has been through several marriages and has decided she's entitled to be eccentric. Sylvia's lesbian daughter Allegra is having problems with her lover and Grigg, the only male member of the group is pining after one of the women but is unable to articulate his love. As the book club reads through the work of JaneAusten, they find themselves drawing ever closer parallels between their lives and the stories.
Writer-director Robin Swicord knows her audience. She sticks to tried ...
Advantages: Unputdownable Disadvantages: Too short!!
I discovered this book one bleak afternoon in the school library during my A' Level year. A new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by the BBC had increased my interest in JaneAusten and pushed me to read all of her work, including her unfinished novels. Pride and Prejudice seems to have gained all the glory due to the numerous adaptation and seems to have eclipsed the slower paced and gentler novel that is Persuasion.
Persuasion is by far and away the best romance I have ever read, and a year does not go by without re-reading this wonderful story.
It is a true romantic story in that the characters fall in love, are separated, due to obligation, and are re-united 8 years later. For true romantics, the thought that there is someone out there who thinks of us everyday and has loved no-one else, even after all the hurt and resentment that ...
teacher who is battling an attraction to one of her students while her marriage slowly falls apart, and Grigg, a science fiction enthusiast who is attracted to Jocelyn and accepts to join the club in order to get to know her better. Unfortunately for Grigg, Jocelyn recruited him into the club in an attempt to hook him up with Sylvia, who, incidentally, is still in love with her ex-husband.
Deciding that the club will be concentrating their efforts on JaneAusten's classic novels, the group meet up once a month in order to discuss one of the novels. During these discussions, the comments of the members begin to reveal their true natures, and friendships solidify and spill out into the 'real' world - a world devoid of JaneAusten.
In between the book club meetings, life goes on as usual with Sylvia's ex husband constantly popping in to ...
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