The Jane Austen Book Club Page #2

Makes Sir Bertram

some kind of slave owner.

Well, it means well.

And a little Jane Austen's

better than none at all.

No. No. No.

That is how I talk myself into everything.

I'm married to a man

who would cancel our trip to Paris

for a basketball game,

which is making me a fraud

in front of my students.

A French teacher

who's never been to France?

The screenplay is outstanding.

Excuse me. I'd like to talk to you.

Come with me.

You seem to know a lot about Jane Austen.

I do.

You know, Prudie,

I've been married six times.

You're always happy at first.

It's how you feel at the end that counts.

I've been thinking, I'd like to get married

again, maybe just once more.

My favorite was Ben Weinberg.

And this is Ben.

He produced Fred Astaire movies.

Don't underestimate older men.

We lived in a house in Beverly Hills

that had a little pond

and a bridge and goldfish.

That's how I met my friend Jocelyn.

- Carlos.

- My pleasure.

Ben was her godfather. Her family's loaded.

Who's Jocelyn again?

The one I wanna start the book club for.

Lost her dog?

Eat. So, book club.

I can get Jocelyn and maybe Sylvia.

Jocelyn put Sylvia and Daniel together

in high school.

They've been together ever since.

Though Sylvia's gonna want Daniel

in the book club,

but I think it should be all women.

Don't you?

I mean, men, they pontificate

and no one can get a word in edgewise.

- Well, I think if you...

- And women won't butt in,

but men, they keep monologuing.

Yammer, yammer, yammer.

And we keep listening,

protecting their feelings.

- But if...

- And men don't do book clubs.

Women want to share,

but men, they hoard what they read,

if they crack open a book.

Does your husband read?

He reads stuff online.

You know, it's gonna be

like extracting teeth to get Sylvia,

because she has to read so much already.

She works at the state library. But, oh!

Hey, no. Okay.

Now, this is brilliant.

We'll only do books we've already read.

Is that inspired?

How do we know what books

all of us have read?

Isn't it obvious?

Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice,

Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion.

- I'm leaving some...

- Sense and Sensibility.

And Sense and Sensibility.

It's been three years

since I've read Sense and Sensibility.

I have to pee.

When I get back, hot water and lemon.

And we still have to think

of two more people.

Six novels, six people.

We'll each be responsible for one book.

All Jane Austen, all the time!

It's the perfect antidote.

- To what?

- To life.

I get Pride and Prejudice.

I called the library

and said you had bronchitis.

Anne Marie's moving your indigenous

peoples meeting to next week.

I should go in.

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