Brain Soup Goes Gilmore discussion

What are you reading that's NOT on Rory's list? Want to talk about it? Need a recommendation? This thread is here for you!

I'm sitting on the train, heading towards my copy of Emma. And since I've trapped my travelling book in a locker for the next hour, I thought I might recommend a really good Austenite book!

What matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan. I read it last summer and it's really good and entertaining! The writer challenges you to think about the details of the text, but not in an annoying lecturing way, but like a fellow Austenite. He asks questions and then gives you the answers. For example, how many wives in Austen call their hudband by first name? How does the weather affect the stories, characters and does Austen use weather in the same way as her contemporary writers.

Only bad thing was that the book was way too short..

If you get the the chance to read it or attend Mullan's lectures, take it! That is...if you passionately love Jane Austen, like I do.

Ok. Gush over, changing trains :)

Maiju wrote: "I'm sitting on the train, heading towards my copy of Emma. And since I've trapped my travelling book in a locker for the next hour, I thought I might recommend a really good Austenite book!

What ..."

That sounds amazing! Thank you so much for the recommendation, I wish I could make it appear in front of me immediately! :)

Just because we're reading Emma - has anyone read any of the books in the Austen Project? It's basically well-known authors modernising Austen's novels for a young audience, and the most recently published was Emma by Alexander McCall Smith. While I think I'm too much of an Austen purist to enjoy it, someone else might enjoy!