This bugged me, but not as much as not filming in Davis. There was also a pretty major plot adjustment made that made the movie more Hollywood/feel-good/less true to the point of the book. Part of the reason why I didn’t like the movie as much as the book was that in the movie, scenes that specifically took place in Davis in the book were not filmed there, and I knew it. So I read The Jane Austen Book Club and liked it a bit better, especially since some of it actually takes place in Davis! This book actually got made into a movie, which I saw, but not until after I’d read the book. But Karen Joy Fowler was from Davis, and I felt like I owed it to our common geography to give her another try. I remember it being sweet and innocuous, and only memorable because it reminded me of a movie I liked a heck of a lot more than the book itself. I liked The Sweetheart Season because it reminded me of the movie A League of Their Own. I have read a couple of Karen Joy Fowlers’s earlier books, The Sweetheart Season and The Jane Austen Book Club, both of which I enjoyed, but didn’t love.
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