If' you'd like to learn more about the Boston Austen Book Club, visit the BABC section of Vintage-Bridge. If you're not on Facebook but you'd like to attend, you can email me at vintagebridgegmailcom Please RSVP on the Facebook event page at If you haven’t gotten to them yet, there’s still plenty of time! Hope you can make it! The good thing about these two books is that they are really quick reads. Also, of course, we will discuss the books themselves, independent of everything else. Romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and written by Adam Brooks, Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding, based on Fieldings 1999 novel of the same name. We’ll discuss that aspect of the books, and also how they “spored their own gender” of books AKA spurred their own genre of books (you’ll get the joke after you read Edge of Reason), namely “Chick Lit.” From there we can discuss those books and chick lit in general in the context of the history of women’s literature and Jane Austen. Movies like Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason 2004 Movie. It is based on Fielding's 1996 novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. We will meet to discuss “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason.”īridget Jones, Jane Austen, and Women's Literatureīoth BJD and BJ:EOR are sort-of spinoffs, plot-wise, of Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, respectively. Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding. This meeting will be on Sunday, September 22 at 2pm at the Pleasant Café in Roslindale. I'm ending the busiest summer of my life with great fanfare: the Summer Meeting of the Boston Austen Book Club. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) through which interest in Jane Austen has permeated popular culture and the ways in which she and her works have been. Summer is almost over! That went by SO FAST! I hope yours was a good one.
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