Jane Austen Appreciation Year
I ADORE Jane Austen's stories. The romance! The tension! The period clothing! But here's the thing. I've never actually READ a Jane Austen book before. Sure I've read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is the original P&P text, with Seth Graham-Greene's graphic zombie goodness sauced over the top of it, but I've never sat down with an original Jane Austen story and read it. I've just watched all the movies obsessively. (And yes, I do prefer Matthew McFayden over Colin Firth. Fight me.) Then ever-clever Elley said hey, why don't we spend 2019 reading all the Austen books, and discussing them over tea in fancy-ass teacups, like the romance-obsessed ladies that we are? That's my 2019 plan, y'all. Read the seven novels of Jane Austen. This month's is Northanger Abbey. I've seen the fabulous movie, staring Felicity Jones and J.J. Fielding. Basic premise: Jane Austen's first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tell...