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Monday book talk: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'

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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20041107
Author:Regina C. Davis

The polls are closed and the votes have been counted: Readers at Monday's Book Talk gave Karen Joy Fowler's "The Jane Austen Book Club" a thumbs-down. As one reader put it, Fowler just didn't do a good job of "Jane Austen-izing it."

Fowler's tale of six book lovers who gather once a month to discuss Austen's novels falls short of readers' expectations. As planned, discussion leader Carol Campbell began the talk by asking everyone their opinion of the Austen quote in the novel's opening pages: "Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; ...

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