The Jane Austen Book Club

There has been quite a buzz about Karen Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club which I finished last night. I became very fond of the folks in this book, although they did not especially remind me of anyone in my own book groups. As I read on, I would notice remarks they made while interpreting Jane Austen's six novels and think "isn't that just like something he/she would say?". I loved the digs by the lovers of literature about science fiction and its readers. There were wry parallels between the social interactions of the characters in the Austen books and this one.

For more on Fowler's works:

http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/