Jane Austen Book Club.

limajean · 07-16-2009, 08:07 AM

Book one, Persuasion

All the details can be found here:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=45750

Night_Lamp · 07-16-2009, 05:10 PM

In second semester, I'm taking an Austen class at school. I've read all of them before, some several times, and would be interested if I could squeeze it in. After Christmas when my class starts, I'll have even more to add to the conversation.

Virgil · 07-16-2009, 10:03 PM

I'm reading Persuasion starting in a week or so. I would love to talk about that. However I can't promise I can keep up with another book club. When I can join I would love to participate. I wouldn't mind doing an Austen novel per year.

JBI · 07-16-2009, 10:04 PM

I'm up for it, I think, but which book?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Night_Lamp

In second semester, I'm taking an Austen class at school. I've read all of them before, some several times, and would be interested if I could squeeze it in. After Christmas when my class starts, I'll have even more to add to the conversation.

You at Western? - I was supposed to take one at U of T, but it filled up before my course enrollment start time, so I had to take something else.

limajean · 07-16-2009, 10:07 PM

Hey JBI, well, considering Virgil said he's going to start Persuasion in a week, maybe we could start with that?
and then i'm keen to move on to Sense and Sensibility.

Niamh · 07-17-2009, 03:44 AM

Sounds good to me. count me in.
I would however like to point out that it is kinda unfair on the majority of the forum if you keep it exclusive to ten people. I know it is easier in the long run, but if people dont participate, well then they dont. If they throw there opinion in, than let them. They can always read back over discussions any way.

limajean · 07-17-2009, 06:11 AM

Agreed.
10 people idea, canned. It was just an outline anyway.

prendrelemick · 07-17-2009, 06:42 AM

I am between books at the moment, and was thinking of reading P&P again anyway. But Persuasion is good, when do we start? Where do we post?

limajean · 07-17-2009, 06:50 AM

Well, up to all of you, i' just created this thread today ( i think? )

Let's vote on the first book we should read

Niamh · 07-17-2009, 07:12 AM

we could kep the discussions to here like they do in the Lawerance thread and Checkov threads.

And it seems people are already up for Persuasion.

Of course, I have no problems reading it! Its my fav.

limajean · 07-17-2009, 08:16 AM

We should pick a date that we start reading it, but.. when it comes to moving on to another book, do we just move on, even if someone hasn't finished?

Niamh · 07-17-2009, 09:56 AM

could give about a three month period for each book then to insure that everyone has gotten to read it and discuss it.

limajean · 07-17-2009, 11:29 AM

Agreed - gah, i need more participants!

Niamh · 07-17-2009, 11:31 AM

Advertise it in the litnet town crier.

BeccaT · 07-17-2009, 11:33 AM

I'm in.

View Poll Results: What book should we read first?
Sense and Sensibility	3	20.00%
Emma	1	6.67%
Pride and Prejudice	2	13.33%
Mansfield Park	2	13.33%
Persuasion	7	46.67%
Northanger Abbey	0	0%
Voters: 15. You may not vote on this poll

07-16-2009, 08:07 AM	#1
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	Jane Austen Book Club. Book one, Persuasion All the details can be found here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=45750 __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com Last edited by limajean; 07-20-2009 at 09:07 AM.

07-16-2009, 10:03 PM	#3
Virgil Vincit Qui Se Vincit Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New York Posts: 18,220 Blog Entries: 92	I'm reading Persuasion starting in a week or so. I would love to talk about that. However I can't promise I can keep up with another book club. When I can join I would love to participate. I wouldn't mind doing an Austen novel per year. __________________ LET THERE BE LIGHT "That day I shall always recollect with grief; with reverence also, for the gods so willed it." - Virgil, The Aeneid (V, 49) Distracted from distraction by distraction

07-16-2009, 10:07 PM	#5
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	Hey JBI, well, considering Virgil said he's going to start Persuasion in a week, maybe we could start with that? and then i'm keen to move on to Sense and Sensibility. __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com

07-17-2009, 03:44 AM	#6
Niamh The Fairy Thief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: sitting by the Black Pool of Faerie, thinking of a celt by a lake. Posts: 12,751 Blog Entries: 143	Sounds good to me. count me in. I would however like to point out that it is kinda unfair on the majority of the forum if you keep it exclusive to ten people. I know it is easier in the long run, but if people dont participate, well then they dont. If they throw there opinion in, than let them. They can always read back over discussions any way. __________________ "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand." W.B.Yeats "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)" Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer my poems-please comment Forum Rules

07-16-2009, 05:10 PM	#2
Night_Lamp Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: London, Ontario Posts: 52	In second semester, I'm taking an Austen class at school. I've read all of them before, some several times, and would be interested if I could squeeze it in. After Christmas when my class starts, I'll have even more to add to the conversation.

07-17-2009, 06:11 AM	#7
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	Agreed. 10 people idea, canned. It was just an outline anyway. __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com

07-17-2009, 06:42 AM	#8
prendrelemick Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 796 Blog Entries: 5	I am between books at the moment, and was thinking of reading P&P again anyway. But Persuasion is good, when do we start? Where do we post?

07-17-2009, 06:50 AM	#9
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	Well, up to all of you, i' just created this thread today ( i think? ) Let's vote on the first book we should read __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com

07-17-2009, 07:12 AM	#10
Niamh The Fairy Thief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: sitting by the Black Pool of Faerie, thinking of a celt by a lake. Posts: 12,751 Blog Entries: 143	we could kep the discussions to here like they do in the Lawerance thread and Checkov threads. And it seems people are already up for Persuasion. Of course, I have no problems reading it! Its my fav. __________________ "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand." W.B.Yeats "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)" Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer my poems-please comment Forum Rules Last edited by Niamh; 07-17-2009 at 07:14 AM.

07-17-2009, 08:16 AM	#11
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	We should pick a date that we start reading it, but.. when it comes to moving on to another book, do we just move on, even if someone hasn't finished? __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com

07-17-2009, 09:56 AM	#12
Niamh The Fairy Thief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: sitting by the Black Pool of Faerie, thinking of a celt by a lake. Posts: 12,751 Blog Entries: 143	could give about a three month period for each book then to insure that everyone has gotten to read it and discuss it. __________________ "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand." W.B.Yeats "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)" Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer my poems-please comment Forum Rules

07-17-2009, 11:29 AM	#13
limajean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 4	Agreed - gah, i need more participants! __________________ My blog http://themurderofinnersense.blogspot.com

07-17-2009, 11:31 AM	#14
Niamh The Fairy Thief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: sitting by the Black Pool of Faerie, thinking of a celt by a lake. Posts: 12,751 Blog Entries: 143	Advertise it in the litnet town crier. __________________ "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand." W.B.Yeats "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)" Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer my poems-please comment Forum Rules

07-17-2009, 11:33 AM	#15
BeccaT Overlord of Cupcak3s Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Manitoulin Island/Guelph, Ont/London UK. Posts: 768 Blog Entries: 27	I'm in. __________________ Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars. Blog: Gasoline Rainbows Horse-y Blog (Arroch and C2C Stables)

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