I am hosting a Jane Austen bookclub at the library. We started in January with an introduction and meet once a month. This month we are reading Pride and Prejudice. I find that I really have to set aside time to read Austen - I enjoy it but each book is like a friendship - it takes time to build it up to feel comfortable with the characters. Austen doesn't give everything away at first, and only the reader who is will to commit the time will find the books marvellous.
As a result of the time commitment, I have only 4-5 others in the group - but they are committed and of course we are loving the conversations around the characters. By the end of the hour, they seem like real people we all know.
A few patrons have asked for a Agatha Christie bookclub. Christie, like Austen, was born and bred in England. Perhaps all this stems from my great love of British mysteries. Ah, the heady love of the literary anglophile!
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