The Strangler Vine - December CC Book Club Selection

I don’t need to read Jane Austen, since I’ve read most of them more than once, but I’m always happy to oblige!

I’d say pair Pride and Prejudice with Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club, but that was actually a bit of a disappointment. Personally my favorite Jane Austen is Persuasion. It’s a more grown up story. I also finally learned to like Sense and Sensibility after seeing the movie - (the one with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett and Alan Rickman) - one of the few times I can think of that the movie made me understand a character better than the book had.

On the whole though I’d rather reread Middlemarch if I am going to reread a classic.

I’m reading the third Blake and Avery novel now. It’s all about restaurant/gentleman’s club cooking which is fun.