#JaneAustenBookClub
Just finished Persuasion. It took an extra month to do six Austens in six months (thanks to some big trips and reading distractions this year). But #JaneAustenBookClub has been a pocket of sanity in a word of chaos this year.
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
September is the month for Northanger Abbey. A but ill timed as we should have had it in time for Halloween. But a treat on our recent cold and stormy nights. You can feel the narrator having fun and I love it! #JaneAustenBookClub
September 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#JaneAustenBookClub made ramen from scratch and matched a Japanese whiskey for Emma. And of course, viewed the Eleanor Catton adaptation. And then Clueless.
August 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We watched TWO film adaptations of Mansfield Park this weekend for #JaneAustenbookclub. I will say we *needed* the whiskey match.
The Billie Piper version spent all their money on hiring Billie Piper and had no budget for Portsmouth - so that just cut that whole bit.
Bring on Emma.
July 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
My feelings on Mansfield Park are mixed. It feels ambitious but …loosely executed. And hard to gauge how to feel about Fanny. It feels like a step before the finely nuanced irony of Emma. Altogether soo serious. Too many … quite dull drips. Poor Fanny indeed #JaneAustenBookClub
July 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Mansfield Park is getting really juicy now. Such a different book. It’s drawn my awareness to how interested Austen is in parents and family dynamics. A lot more interior life to it than the others. And Fanny Price has an anxiety disorder eh? #JaneAustenbookclub
July 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
June concluded with a lovely 12yr Tamdhu, sherry oak cask, and of course Lady Catherine worrying that the “shades of Pemberley would be thus polluted” #JaneAustenbookclub

Bring on July and Mansfield Park!
June 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I read Pride and Prejudice last weekend. Still delightful, witty, page-turning good. Lizzy being so wrong about Wickham is a stronger line there than in the BBC adaptation, which we are now watching. Because it is the correct adaptation. #JaneAustenbookclub
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June 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“A friend told me recently that she’s rereading all six novels of Jane Austen as an antidote to these fractious times.”

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June 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On Friday we ended Sense and Sensibility month with a screening of the Emma Thompson adaptation. And matched this delightful Ardnamurchan AD Single Malt from Argyll. #JaneAustenBookClub
June 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It’s June! I can start reading Pride and Prejudice. #JaneAustenBookClub
June 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yawl, B is reading Sense and Sensibility now and she’s so engrossed I feel like I’m not even in the room these days. #JaneAustenBookClub
May 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It’s May. Which means everyone should be sitting somewhere comfortable with a nice cuppa and either commencing their reading of Sense and Sensibility, or arguing with their household about why they aren’t reading Lady Susan. #JaneAustenBookClub
May 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The backstory is long but the plan is reading 6 Jane Austen novels in 6 months, and watching a film/TV adaptation …+ a whisky match. Welcome to the #JaneAustenBookClub. May is Sense and Sensibility. Please join us.
April 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A little Friday night #JaneAustenBookClub 😁
January 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM