Jane Austen July
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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Readalong Schedules per @katiejlumsden One of three hosts of Jane Austen July. Check her channel for all of the information/prompts/links, etc
Sense and Sensibility
3 chapters daily from July 1 to 14, then 4 chapters 15 and 16
Sanditon 2 chapters daily from July 17 to 22
The Watsons July 23 to 31
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Yes! I don’t understand why Northanger Abbey is so underrated! It’s my favorite Austen, and so far it is my 18 y.o daughter’s favorite by her too.
I read Udolpho last year. I liked it for the most part, but slogged through some of it. 😅
Oh yay! There are currently four of us in the Northanger Abbey club. 😁 Oh, thank you for the heads up with Udolpho.
Finally! Someone besides me Hates the saying "It is what it is" When I was working and whenever someone would disagree with a decision made by a Supervisor, the supervisor would always say "It is what it is". I developed a deep hatred of that saying.
I'm so sorry I made you cringe or grit your teeth. I know I do when I hear it. When did this become a saying? It's so annoying. It's limiting and not at all encouraging. Dare I say it would be a toxic saying coming from a supervisor? Poor leadership.Thank you for telling me you hate it too. I thought I was the only one. LOL
Sounds like fun. I usually hide from this July event, but this year I may join in by reading Mansfield Park. I'm getting one of the annotated copies of this book. I do love reading Jane Austin's writing, but there's usually a lot more to the event than I can handle all in one month.
I try to participate but some of the recommendations for their prompts I can't get behind. I don't like the direction they're taking JAJ. Plus there are so many other authors of that time period outside of England and Scotland. I don't ever see any U.S. content creator's doing anything similar.
I have had Udolpho on my tbr ever since reading Northanger Abbey. I look forward to hearing what you think about it.
Hi, hello and what a July you got planned! I got nothin else to contribute lol just dropping in to say hi
Take care and see ya on the next one!
Thank you so much for dropping in and saying hi, hello. We always appreciate it. If I manage my time well and nothing goes wrong on the farm and I don't have to mow every four days, I should be able to get a lot read. 🤣If nothing goes wrong.
Northanger Abbey was the first Jane Austen book I read when I came onto Booktube, her heroine was very influenced by that Anne Radcliffe book. I rarely venture into 18th century fiction, whilst on Booktube I have only read Dangerous Liaisons from the 18th century (it was a choice of Classics and Company). I feel more comfortable with the 19th century writers,
Hi Jim~ yep, that's the reason I'm reading Udolpho. Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen novel. I am not familiar with Classics and Company. I'm guessing it's another channel? I'll check it out. I don't really contemplate the century of the author. Why is that you find you're more comfortable with 19th century?
@@BookZealots In the eighteenth century English readership was a social and economic elite, not the huge reading class of the later nineteenth century. Books were not cheap, and serialization to bring costs down was yet to be invented. Educated readers expected a high standard of written expression. so the style was very different between 18th century writers and 19th century writers like Dickens, the Brontes, Jane Austen, Mark Twain etc... who wrote for a wider audience.
Classics and Company was a reading event created by Ann Novella and another booktuber, whose name escapes me, for reading a selection of "classics" throughout the year.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Okay, are you saying you are more comfortable with 19th century authors because they wrote common English? Plus, the topic of their writing was not in response to a mathematical or scientific pamphlet, but was a story, making their writing easier?
I'd like to add to your history though. Yes, books were expensive. They're expensive now. If a book was about $100 in the 1700's, (that is our current value of say, a pound or if it was a pamphlet or a play, about a penny? And here in the U.S. I've seen new hardbacks costing $32-$42, and the quality is inferior to the 1700's, who was getting the better deal? I think they got the better deal. Plus, those books are still expensive. They've held their value. Modern books do not hold their value, which is why used books are so abundant. (thankfully, because it's how we're able to have so many). However, and maybe an important point, the buying power was better then, than now.
I know there were printed pamphlets read in public areas/town criers, etc for the illiterate. Would you say that today people's attention span is less and/or people's intelligence is lower than in the 1700's?
I know a lot of people here in the U.S. say "oh but people in history stopped education in 8th grade." But what isn't widely known is the 8th grade curricula was what is now considered collegiate level.
Thank youfor the information on the channel. =) I did look it up last night.
@@BookZealots Between 1851 and 1900, there was a rise in British male literacy from 69.3% to 97.2%, while for the female part of the population, the improvement in literacy rates was even more pronounced, from 54.8% to 96.8%. The serialisation of novels made them more affordable to the masses, so the audience for Dickens and the Bronte Sisters was much broader than for 18th century writers like Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, so the style was different.
I think we have far shorter attention spans today because of the media we consume and how we consume it. Generation Z and Generation Alpha have really short attention spans. I don't think there is any difference in intelligence between the recent centuries but in the past people were more resourceful, but then they had to be.
Before the 20th century a far greater proportion of a person's budget was spent on food than today and clothes today are much cheaper than in the 18th century.
5:09 I picked up Uncle Tom’s Cabin last year; sounds like I’ve been missing out by not having read it yet. Maybe after I finish my current read-through of Les Miserables… I love a good, character-focused book.
I will be doing a wrap up and review of Uncle Tom's Cabin soon. And I will look forward to hearing your review on Les Mis. =)
Yes to Northanger Abbey! I love all of Jane Austen's novels, but that one is my favorite.
Yay! A fellow Northanger Abbey fan! I'm so excited. Are the only two in all of Austen booktube land? 🤔 I tried reading... ugh, there was a story I tried reading last year, maybe it was Sanditon? I didn't like it one single bit. It felt as though everyone was complaining about their health. I don't even remember if I finished it. What book of hers did you read first?
@@BookZealots probably Pride and Prejudice, which I love. I know I saw the adaptation before reading any of her books.
@@CourtneyReads I think P&P was my first Jane Austen as well. I had tried starting with S&S, but had dnf'd it.
@@BookZealots have you read all of her major novels now?
@@CourtneyReads Yes. I started in 2020 with Jane Austen July on booktube and read P&P and Emma. Then Persuasion and Mansfield Park in 2021. In 2022 S&S. I'm really curious to know who some of these characters were in Austen's life. Then Northanger Abbey last year which is my favorite and the short story Sanditon, which is my least favorite. Oh, and I've not read, but watched Lady Susan and was impressed, so I really want to read that short story. I will absolutely reread all of them again. As you can see I'm brand new to reading Austen so the information is still fairly fresh in my mind, but I really like the way she wrote characters and the nuances of society, and their interactions. I know Twain didn't like her but he still read mer multiple times. I wonder why he did that.
I have Jane Austen complete works but I have yet to read anything by her unless I did in school. I don’t remember.
Before Booktube I hadn't read Jane Austen either. I've seen most of the movies though, so I knew enough of the books when I finally did read them. I was most surprised by Pride and Prejudice, because Darcy comes off much better in the movies. But no one agrees with me. He disturbed me in the book, but it made for much better reading. LOL Perhaps if I had read it as a teen I would have thought differently. Everyone has a different favorite, but a lot of the females adore Persuasion. Will you participate in the readalong?
@@BookZealots I do think that Darcy is often softened for the adaptations. Over all of my readings of the book, I've come to the conclusion that he's very shy and socially awkward so he comes across as rather intimidating. A friend I read it with said she could see herself in him and thought he might be autistic.
@@CourtneyReads Oh that's interesting. When I reread it I'll keep that in mind. I've only read it once and I thought he sounded like a narcissist. This was before everyone started inflating the word.
Hi Erion & Prometheus 😊! Those are some heavy books for Jane Austen July - but I'm curious to know your opinion about unmarriageable & the last book you mentioned. And LOL🤣- your daughter got a book stabbed !!! now that sounds fun🤣🤣🤣👍
Hi Awhona~ Have you read Unmarriageable? I thikn the girls that host Jane Austen July have read it and that's how I heard about it. But since then I've come to realize I don't prefer the books they enjoy. I think that's why I'm hesitating on reading it. Are you participating in Jane Austen July? You always do amazing videos for the readalong.
@BookZealots Yes😁, I've read it and it's a contemporary novel focusing on the plight of marriage in the lives of Pakistani/Asian woman which is not very far off from the Regency Era situation for women. Ofcourse- we can't enjoy all books - infact speaking for myself- I do try to step out of my comfort zone once in a while & at times it's fruitful at others it's not - but I love challenging & stretching my reading horizons once in a while as a reader🤗.