One of my goals this year is to read more books. Since I love talking about what I read, a way to do that is to read and discuss with my local JASNA chapter (which happens to be the Ventura JASNA Book Club).
If you want to join the fun, we will be reading:
January – What Regency Women Did for Us by Rachel Bowles
February – The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
March – Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
April – Hermsprong; Or, Man as He is Not by Robert Bage; and an essay entitled “Sleeping with Mr. Collins” by Ruth Perry, access at http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number22/perry.htm
May – A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlote Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa et al
June – Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
July – Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carla Berkin
No meeting in August
September – Persuasion by Jane Austen
October – The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theater and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Bryne
November – Horatio Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
Jane’s Birthday Celebration in December
What do you think?