JASNA-SC is pleased to offer a Jane Austen Book Club for our members hosted by long-time member Deborah Barnum – this group has now been combined with the Classics Book Club at the Bluffton Library. All members are invited to participate. We will continue to read one Austen work each year, as well as other literary classics. You have two options to join us: attend the in-person discussion or discuss via Zoom that same evening. Mix it up if you like!

For each book club selection, the in-person discussion will take place on the 2nd Wednesday of every other month at 11:00 am ET at the Bluffton Library [120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton]. The Zoom discussion for those far afield will take place that same evening at 5:30 pm from the comfort of your home.

The selection of books and discussion dates are listed below. For more information, contact Deb Barnum.

BOOK SELECTIONS for 2024-25:

February 12: Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (1920). Tim C will facilitate.
March 12: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1901-2). Deb
April 9: Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima (1969). Carol Lo [a Japanese classic]
June 11: Persuasion, by Jane Austen (1818). Deb                                             

September 10: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (1865-67; 1869; 1889 English ed.). Britta A will facilitate. Some light summer reading…
October 15 [note date change]: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (1856). Kathy W
November 12: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985). Deb
December 10: Holiday Tea, selection of 2026 titles; share reading

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BOOK SELECTIONS for 2023-2024

September 26, 2023: Cecilia by Frances Burney (1782) – Start early, this is a long one!
November 14, 2023: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
December  5, 2023: Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson (1920) Read the first in the series, more later if desired
February 6, 2024: Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (1846)
April 30, 2024: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
June 4, 2024: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas [read the translation by Liesel Schillinger, Penguin 2013]
Sept. 11, 2024: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1847) – Bluffton Library
Nov. 13, 2024: The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper (1826) – Bluffton Library
Dec. 11, 2024: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) – Bluffton Library
                         + Tea and Book selection for 2025

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More information about each book will be included in an email from Deb to the membership as the discussion date approaches, including time and place, discussion questions, and Zoom details. For more information or to be added to the book club email list, contact Deb Barnum.

Hope you can join us!

For more info on how this book group is set up, how books are chosen, and past reads, please visit here.

Our reads this year: 2024:

Wed Sept 11, 2024, 11:30 am in the Bluffton Library / Zoom discussion that evening at 5:30 pm

What: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

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When: Tues. June 4, 2024, 3:00 pm / zoom will be at 5:30 pm

Where: in person at Caroline’s home in Bluffton

What: The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils

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When: Tues. April 30, 2024, 3:00 pm

The ZOOM will be on Wed, May 1st, 5:30 pm [I cannot do Tuesday]

Where: in-person at Deb’s home – will have simple appetizers…[and probably something sweet!]

What: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

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