THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (Sept. 21)
I would never join a book club myself, but I am sort of excited to watch a movie in which six women in California sit around talking about Jane Austen novels and find that their own lives begin to resemble modern-day versions of Austen's world. I'm hoping it will offer some insight into why my mom is the way she is, but I think the real question for college students will be whether or not the points that they bring up about Pride and Prejudice are good enough deploy in class without actually reading the book. —CS