Pro tip: I brought a full costume to our 'Pride and Prejudice' discussion thinking it was a theme night.

Honestly, I misread the email and showed up to the library meeting room in a full Regency gown, only to find everyone else in jeans. Tbh, the debate about whether Mr. Darcy was actually rude got way more heated because I was dressed like his mother. Ngl, has anyone else had a book club meeting go totally off the rails because of a simple misunderstanding?

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richard_anderson1mo ago

That "regency glare" probably made people pick sides way faster than the book ever could.

bennett.mason25d ago

Wait, you really think the glare made people pick sides faster? I gotta disagree there. The whole point of the glare is that it forced everyone to actually read the book to see if Darcy was mean or just awkward. Without that moment, you could just coast on the movie version and call it a day. The glare made it personal, sure, but it also made people dig deeper to defend their take. I bet half those people went home and reread the scene just to see if it matched what they saw in her eyes. That's way more engagement than a normal book club gets.

bennett.mason1mo ago

The part about the debate getting heated because you looked like his mother is killing me. I can just picture the whole scene, some poor soul trying to argue Darcy was secretly nice while facing down a full regency glare. That is next level awkward, but honestly, it sounds like a way better book club story than the usual stuff. You probably made their whole month. I would have been the guy nervously laughing into my coffee, too scared to pick a side.