Books and Berries

Our Jane Austen Society had its usual June meeting of "Books and Berries". There are lots of fresh berries for the potluck and of course lots of other goodies including a wonderful trifle someone made...wow!  My photos got messed up so just took a photo of the books I bought. They always have a booksale at this meeting along with members giving reviews of books related to Jane Austen. I brought a number of books to donate to the booksale but I bought almost as many so I didn't manage to get rid of much in the way of books. It was a great meeting and we had a wonderful musical interlude with two members presenting some selections from the movie version of Emma.

I was particularly happy to get this book on Austen by Carol Shields, one of my favourite writers.

From Amazon:

"With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an award–winning novelist, Carol Shields’s magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created."