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.

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

#JaneAustenBookClub made ramen from scratch and matched a Japanese whiskey for Emma. And of course, viewed the Eleanor Catton adaptation. And then Clueless.

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.

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

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

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!

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

“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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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

It’s June! I can start reading Pride and Prejudice. #JaneAustenBookClub

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

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

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.

A little Friday night #JaneAustenBookClub 😁