Pride and Prejudice

[close] Does the 21 century bores you? Want to drown into the wnderful world of Jane Austen and her novels? Want to discuss Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Lady Susan and other masterpieces of Austen? This is the right place for you! Join it, it doesn't cost you anything...

[close] Welcome to Chelmsford Public Library’s Classics Book Group! It is being moderated by the library’s Reader’s Advisory Team - Jessica FitzHanso, Head of Reader’s Services, and Deanna Parsi, Adult Services Specialist. We had a few goals in mind when creating this new book group. One is to give people the opportunity to participate in spirited book discussion from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Another is an acknowledgement that we don’t all have schedules that can easily accommodate a book group at a set time, so we have created a book group you can attend on your time. Lastly, we were talking about the classics – the ones we have read and the ones that we should have read – and figured that we were not alone in wanting to expand our literary education. The book group will have a weekly structure. Each week we will provide some historical background or literary information for context. We will then post a discussion question, as well as throw in some weekly “quizzes” (don’t worry, there are no grades here!) or other fun asides. The advantage of this type of book group is that you can check back as often or as little as you like. We do hope, however, that you will tune in each week and participate. We have one simple rule, which we will state even though we know you already know it: Be kind and respectful of each other when posting. With that, welcome to our book group. We are glad you are here!

[close] This group is for people who absolutely love Jane Austen and 'Pride and Prejudice' and could re-read her books all day long. What is not to love?

[close] Welcome to the online Book Club to supplement our Jane Austen Book Challenge! I thought it would be fun to have a place to post some of our favorite stuff, links to anything cool we find, and discuss if we want to watch the movie adaptions after the books or not! This will also allow us to see where everyone is at within the challenge, so that hopefully we all stay relatively close to each other. The goal is to have all the original books read before 2018 ends!