Is he a secret Jane Austen fan, or does it mean something else?

Question

I like my friend, but I'm not sure if he likes me. We get on really well and he'll always come and talk to me when he sees me. He looks at me from across the room, and smiles at me, and sits next to me when he gets the chance. I hear that if his feet point towards me that means he likes me! I've been watching out for it and they invariably do. He knows I like Jane Austen stuff, and recently he's mentioned a couple of articles he's read about her (he was going to email one of them to me). Some of my friends and I were at his house because his housemate had recorded a Jane Austen adaptation for us, and he sat and watched it with us, even though we didn't expect him to stay and he moaned the whole way through. He definitely doesn't like the other girls who were there, I know that. Sometimes when we're with a group of friends I feel like he looks at and talks to me the most, but sometimes he treats me the same as the others (usually when there's a slightly bigger group and he gets shy).

Answer 1

He definately likes you and fond of you, but also seems to be a little bit shy. He seems to try to get into your heart by all the things you like most. Well, if he is shy, why not taking the lead. Date him, and in a quiet mood, tell him you like him too and would like to know him better. Take it from there.

All the best!/

Answer 2

Unfortunately for Jane Austen, very few straight guys would read, watch or do research on her or her works without being required by a class to do so. If he was looking up articles (and he was looking them up, they are not on the front page of the newspaper or somewhere he would naturally come across them) then he was doing it to talk to you. So go for it!