Saturday, January 17, 2015
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Toco Hills Library
Lecture: Jane Austen and Her Times
followed by
Group Discussion: Members were invited to bring a favorite
Austen-related book and provide a 5
minute profile of it. The book could
fiction or non-fiction.
Our new Regional Coordinator for Georgia, Kristen Miller-Zohn welcomed us and gave a preview of our 2015 plans. Our new Atlanta Reading Group leader, Erin Elwood, then treated us to a review of Jane Austen and her life and times. For the second half of our meeting we took turns introducing our favorite or most recent Austen-related books by giving five minute mini-reviews and readings. Several of us picked books in keeping with this year's theme, "Jane Austen and Her Times." Among the books discussed were
Dinner with Mr Darcy Pen Vogler
Jane Austen's Country Life Deirdre Le Faye
Jane Austen Cookbook Maggie Black & Deirdre Le Faye
Jane Austen Fashion Penelope Byrde
Jane Austen and Crime Susannah Fullerton
These Three Remain Pamela Aidan
Jane Austen's England Roy and Leslie Adkins
