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Article: `The Jane Austen Book Club'.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2007
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Byline: Carrie Rickey
"The Jane Austen Book Club" is where "Sex and the City" meets "Sense and Sensibility." Wildness is tempered by hard-won wisdom. The process of reading and talking about an Austen classic enables members to learn to live and to love more fully.
Robin Swicord's likeable and breezy adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's novel is about how six people reading the same book have six different interpretations. For the reader, the book is a hand mirror reflecting personal experience.
It follows that the five Jane freaks and one sci-fi geek who transcend their romantic binds while considering Miss Austen's novels learn much about ...