Gathering Our Thoughts

Ladies, any opinions on how we can have some fun with this blog?  What should it be a forum for?  We obviously don't want to get into too much detail about the books, which would spoil our meetings or give away details for first time readers.  We don't have quite the same type of things going on in our lives as the five women and one man in The Jane Austin Book Club that we need to be reporting.  We don't have dashing men riding up to us on white stallions in top hats and breeches, offering their chivalrous services for our every need at the next country ball, after which we would share the story here.  So what shall we do?

-Katie

Commencement.

I have literally been sitting here for the better part of a half an hour typing and then backspacing. Typing. Backspacing. Typing. Backspacing. Typing. Backspacing.

I could write on Emma, all 81 pages I have read so far. I could tell you that she annoys me more than I remember. She is manipulative. She is cunning and conniving. And I really hope that I'm not like Harriet.

But more than Emma, or Jane Austen, I am excited to dive head first into this book club. Because for one year we will not just be immersed in books, but each other's lives. The good. The bad. The ugly. Perhaps, it will be a little like all of those dinner parties the Woodhouses seem to have.

So here's to one year of Jane Austen and her sometimes less than tolerable heroines!

Kayla

(And can I say that I cannot wait to bring drinks to a gathering...I have a great recipe for crockpot pumpkin spice lattes?) 

Let's Get Reading, Ladies!

What happens when you let a group of lovely young Central Illinois Ladies loose with six Jane Austen novels and myriad of film adaptations?  We're about to find out!