I wasn't sure if I wanted to participate this year, but now you've got me all excited about it! I want to do the bingo board! I think I'll read Persuasion, since I haven't read that one in a long while.
So excited! The only full length novel of her’s that I have left to read is Persuasion, so I’ll definitely be picking that up (though I may do it earlier in the month as I already read Mansfield Park earlier this year). I think I’ll also pick up What Matters in Jane Austen once I finish Persuasion.
Have been waiting for this announcement! Woohoo! I'm reading and watching Emma this year (and probably Clueless just to round it out) and hoping for time to read Longbourn as well ❤️
I agree, Great recommendation! I read it then shared the book with friends and bought extra copies to put in my local Little Free Libraries last year. Then I bought the audiobook to listen to while out for walks. Make it a great day!:)
Yes! If I do nothing else on BookTube this year I will be doing Jane Austen July. I just got hold of Mansfield Park as an audio book so I will try to join the good reads group. Ros and I did Lovers' Vows last year and made a discussion video about it. It was an interesting experiment but not the best play!
Yes! Count me in! I will definitely be joining both the readalongs and will try to do as many of the other prompts as possible too. Thank you for hosting this wonderful readathon again 😊
I'm excited to reread Mansfield Park, the last of the main novels that I have yet to reread. I think I'll also include Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England in my TBR.
So excited! 🎉 Jane Austen July and Victober are my favorite bookish times of year! I’ve heard such good things about From Mansfield with Love, and really enjoyed that format with LBD, so I think I’ll have to check that one out this year! I completely agree that all the MP adaptations are fairly terrible. Fanny deserves so much better.
I am looking forward to it! Love both Mansfield Park and Persuasion. I am not sure how many of the challenges I will manage this year (I am doing some traveling in July) but I will see what I can do.
Wow. That's a lot of books and videos to read in July. It's quite a challenge. I've read all Jane and a lot of adaptations of her novels right after I finished hers. They were good but left me let down because there is no other Jane Austen. In my JA Society we are reading a program like yours. Evelina by Burney, Miss Austen, and Jane Austen A Life by Tomlinson. Now we are reading Mansfield Park. I inhaled a lot of Jane's contemporaries early on. Now I'm going back. I'm glad to discover young women of quality reading Miss Austen. It does my heart good.
Oh! I have been waiting for this video to appear! I am very excited to read Mansfield Park again, it’s been awhile! I also finally own the John Mullan book after hearing so many great recommendations for it during JAJ.
I read Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and part of Mansfield Park in May. So excited to finish Mansfield Park and bought Lady Susan to read. So I am prepared!
I won't have much time this July so I'm only planning on reading Sanditon and What Matters in Jane Austen and maybe I'll finally sit down to watch the (New) Emma film
I can’t wait to put together my TBR! I am pretty sure Sense and Sensibility will be one choice. I am so glad you and the team are putting this together again!
I was just thinking about my Jane Austen July TBR right before this video came up 😆😆😆 I’m planning on a re-read of Mansfield Park and for the read a contemporary of Jane Austen prompt I plan to read “A Woman of Color” from 1808. It’s written by an anonymous black woman and it has to do with race and inheritance, and the blurb says it “ flouts the traditional marriage plot”…so that has me interested! I had never heard of it before but it was in an episode of Bonnets at Dawn and they really made me want to read it!
Yay! Loved rereading Emma last year as it completely transformed how I felt about the novel (for the better). Looking forward to rereading Mansfield Park and hoping it will have the same effect.
Oxford University Press is closing its printing operation is definitely very sad-apparently they've been at it since 1586, just incredible-but the good news is we don't need to fear for the future of the World Classics series (yet). This is just the printing arm closing, not the whole press--so from a customer point of view the difference probably won't be noticeable, they'll simply be outsourcing the physical printing of the books to other sources...that is how I'm understanding it 💕
Yes! I’m in. I have a whole shelf of Jane Austen related books/retellings and I’ve read barely half of them. I just keep collecting them. 🤷🏻♀️ And I love that Claudia is involved too! Yay!
Yay!!! I'm so excited! I plan on rereading The Other Bennet Sister and reading Charlotte by Helen Moffett for the first time. Also, Reputation sounds excellent!
Getting back into my reading with Jane Austen July. Blame it on covid but I let my good reading habits go in 2020 and now it's time to return to normal!! So thank you for continuing this wonderful annual event!
I was just thinking when you will announce the challenge and then I saw that you uploaded this video . I'm excited as I can ever be to participate in this challenge
Looking forward to reading Mansfield Park and the Other Bennet Sister. Really excited to see the BBC series of Pride and Prejudice and the 2020 Emma movie :)
Wasn't able to join in last year -gosh, can't believe it has been a year already- but I am really excited to try again this year. Hoping to read Mansfield, but my mom wants to read Emma, so I bought her a copy and we will be reading that together!
I'm currently reading Mansfield Park (my first time reading her work) and hearing about this readathon is a good reason to read more of Jane Austen. I've been wanting to read Pride and Prejudice and The Other Bennet Sister.
I read Emma for last Jane Austen July and this July I have Northanger Abbey to read. You and Claudia's inspiration led me to start my own booktube channel back in September, thanks.
I am really excited to join in! I have "What Matters in Jane Austen", "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England" and "Jane Austen Selected Letters" now on order! Thanks for all the great recommends!
Yay super exciting! 🥳 Can’t wait! I will definitely be taking part in both read-alongs plus I have been meaning to get to Frances Burney for awhile now, thinking it’s fate 🤔 since she was Jane Austen’s contemporary, It’s added incentive to finally read her work during Jane Austen July 😉
Beyond excited to assemble my TBR! Also, it's been ages since I read Mansfield Park, and Persuasion is my favourite. Did I mention how excited I am????
I'm looking forward to this every year. I've been (re)reading one Jane Austen novel every summer for a few years now, and yet I've never managed to coincide with your read-alongs! Oh well. XD This July I'm reading Northanger Abbey (for the first time in the original english), which I'm very excited about because it's been many years since I last read it and I remember loving it. I'll probably also listen to Miss Austen. We definitely need more non-P&P Austen retellings; someone needs to write a novel about Mary Crawford! I love the bingo card by the way, I can't wait to use it!
@@katiejlumsden I've read it! Easy, quick read. And really emphasised the full extent that the younger Bennet girls (and Mrs B) fell short of the standards expected of them.
I’m planning on 5 and maybe 6 of these prompts. I’ve been so excited about this Readathon and plan for it all year round. I am finally going to read sense and sensibility.. This is one of my favourite Readathons of the year 🎉🎉🎉 Got the books and dvds all ready too. Oh and I will join in on Mansfield park as I loved that loads ❤️❤️
I will join you in rereading Mansfield Park as it has been some time since I’ve read it. I will probably reread Persuasion as I really love it. Maybe I will like MP better this time around.
I am excited about participating in this challenge for the first time. I plan to join the Persuasion read along since it has been longer since I last read it than MP. I also want to read a retelling but not sure which yet.
3 cheers! This will be my second JA July. Persuasion is my favorite of JA's top six. Recently came across Ian Mortimer as The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain (I think it's out in the UK but not yet here in the US) -- that's my nonfiction pick this year. 🙂
Yay, love Jane Austen July! I have ‘Sanditon and other stories’ which I haven’t read - I put it on my July tbr as soon as I got it a few months ago ☺️ Recently rewatched Emma and persuasion - think I might have to do the 1995 6-part pride and prejudice masterpiece again. My husband will be very happy to join me in that.
Yaay, I'm really happy that Mansfield Park is a group readalong, since it's the only Jane Austen I haven't read so far. I think I might also read Lover's Vows. I'll have to give some thought to other prompts, though.
I'm very excited to participate this year, it will be my second time! I will not be able to take parte in all the challenges, but I have some books here from Jane and about Jane that I will try to read during the month :)
So excited for this!! Especially after the rough few weeks I've had. This is just what I need to lift my spirits :) My plans for the seven challenges so far: 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels: For this one the reread choice was down to either Mansfield Park or Sense and Sensibility. I'm glad you picked the former for the group readalong because I didn't quite appreciate it the first time I read it. I was 14 or 15 I think and it was my first Austen and one of my very first classics so that might've affected my reading experience. I'm intrigued to see how things go this time around. 2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels: For this one I'm going with some of the Juvenilia not included in the Penguin Little Black Classics Edition. I'm especially excited for History of England! 3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time: My choice for this year's nonfiction was the Lucy Worsley Biography. But...the disaster that is my local Mail System....ah well, fingers crossed they don't lose my books yet again 🙃 In any case I'll be watching Worsley's "The Age of the Regency" documentary series :D 4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book: I'd love to read The Other Bennet Girl for this one but, yet again, Le Mail System... (Honestly thank goodness for Project Gutenberg for saving my life with the other challenges and with Victober!) 5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen: Haven't made a final choice for this one but for now it's Lover's Vows and Volume One of Fanny Burney's Cecilia. 6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Since there's no good MP adaptation I'll go with the 1995 P&P because I've only watched it once so far and the Mrs. Bennet in it just cracks me up 🤣 I might also rewatch the 2009 Emma because it's my favourite too! 7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book: Obviously From Mansfield With Love! Also Clueless because a) It's Fab b) I've only watched it once so far c) I really need to introduce my younger sisters to it Sorry if I have rambled on for too long :P
So excited to participate again this year! My nonfiction just came in the mail, all about Regency dancing and balls. Not sure if you've heard of it but a new P&P retelling called The Heiress by Molly Grelley about Anne De Bourg came out. I may try to get to that one or Miss Austen.
Reading Lover’s Vows sounds like an excellent idea. I’d love to see exactly what made it so scandalous, especially considering the outcome of it in MP. I may reread Persuasion again with you guys. Thus far it’s my least favorite Austen (which isn’t saying much as all her books are 5 star reads), but it’s the favorite of a lot of people and I feel like, as I’m getting older, I’ll relate to Anne more.
Back for a 3rd(?) year. Lol...I like MP 83. Has a very young Jonny Lee Miller for 8 seconds. I love that the '83 leads played a match making couple in Amazing Grace. And she was Mrs Allen in NA 07 and he was Mr Musgrove in Persuasion 08! :) It is sooo MP luck that the BBC Radio cast(Jones,Cumberbatch and Tennant) wasn't on screen.
Yeah I have seen that one, but I think I found it a little slow and flat? Fanny was portrayed rightly, but when you can see in her head it became a little less interesting for me, I suppose. I haven't seen it for about ten years though!
@@katiejlumsden I watched it for the first time last year and was very impressed with how like the book it was. Particularly in comparison with the others I've seen. It had its faults, to be sure, but I thought it captured the story and tone really well.
Last years Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner was a good read. I can also recommend, A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz, The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World by Margaret C. Sullivan and Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe. Happy Reading everyone!;-D
A few recommendations for Challenge 3 - Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time Jane Austen and Her World (1969) by Marghanita Laski, author Victorian Chaise-longue A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978) by Lord David Cecil, father of character actor and Jeeves and Wooster audiobook narrator Jonathan Cecil Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon, writer of many novels and a good (and book accurate) BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1980
Oh No No No No!!! I can't, I can't read Mansfield Park again!! I reread it last year for JAJ, and it nearly killed me! I hate it I hate it so much! I hate every character! NO! I look forward to rereading Persuasion though! It's my second favourite Austen novel, First obviously being Pride and Prejudice!
I'm torn between re-reading Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park. They're my least favorite Austens and I'm determined to fall in love with all of her books! 😎💜📚 I've been trying (and failing) to find a screen adaptation of Northanger Abbey that I actually like. Any recommendations???🎥📺
Have you seen the 2007 film of Northanger Abbey? I really enjoy that one. And highly recommend rereading Mansfield Park - it's really one that improves on a reread.
@@katiejlumsden Of course! Sorry I didn't know how it worked.. just got excited when I saw Jane Austen being mentioned lol.. I'd love it if you could do Pride and Prejudice.. yes it's a much discussed book, but mostly superficially that I've seen.. I was wondering if you could focus on the psychological makeup of the main characters.. esp Elizabeth's inner world as she deals with the possibility of perpetual spinsterhood.. and also Darcy, and the male-female dynamic versus what we have in modern society. If you feel that it's too cliched, then my other request would be Persuasion. It's the only JA novel that I haven't read.. I can then read it in time and follow along if you do decide to go in depth. Hope you do, either way I will be tuning in! Thank you x
1983 Mansfield Park movie was the most faithful to the book, I got my daughter to read the book but she didn't like Edmund as she felt he was mean to Fanny. We had the great fun to watch The Jane Austin Book Club and laugh at the comment, "What was so bad about Henry Crawford?"
The Adaptation of Mansfield Park in the 80s was a good mini series. It covers all the main elements and all the actors are good. I think the actress who played Fanny captured her quite well. All the others made her perky. Grrrr!
Hello, I used to read when i was in school (that was 10 years ago) and now I am 25 and 2 months ago I have started reading again. In the two months I have read a Dan Brown book(origin), one Mistborn series book, Magpie and Moonflower Murders and now I am reading Honjin murders. This video of yours came up in my recommendations as I am watching booktubers a lot these days and I love your channel already which focusses a lot on classic books and historical fiction. Since you are starting this July Jane Austen readathon, I really want to participate in it but I am not sure whether I am ready to read such a high level author. Even so, should I start with Pride and Prejudice or do you recommend any other book of hers? thanks in advance for answering.
@@katiejlumsden Compared to so many (not all) Vic authors, he's got so many titles. One day, maybe, AT'll get his own lit.-month, even if it is a 1-shot deal event. Yes, he'll get some readers in Victober, among so many other quality authors, and some perhaps not quite so much.
Just found out about this group. I would like to be involved in the discussion for Jane Austen in July 2022, if it is taking place. I've only read three of Austen's novels, but I love them. How do I join? What novel(s) will you be reading this year? (BTW, I participated in Faulkner in August last year, and loved discussing Sanctuary with everyone.)
The best way to join is to join the Goodreads group here www.goodreads.com/group/show/976576-jane-austen-july-2021 . There will be an announcement video up on this channel in June 2022 with the plans, but we haven't picked this year's readalongs yet.
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I love how the prompts don't change and I still never run out of books to read! Jane Austen July is always too far away!
I wasn't sure if I wanted to participate this year, but now you've got me all excited about it! I want to do the bingo board! I think I'll read Persuasion, since I haven't read that one in a long while.
So excited! The only full length novel of her’s that I have left to read is Persuasion, so I’ll definitely be picking that up (though I may do it earlier in the month as I already read Mansfield Park earlier this year). I think I’ll also pick up What Matters in Jane Austen once I finish Persuasion.
Ah, your last Austen! Enjoy :D
Have been waiting for this announcement! Woohoo! I'm reading and watching Emma this year (and probably Clueless just to round it out) and hoping for time to read Longbourn as well ❤️
I recommend you to read The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner, and to listen to the audiobook narrated by Richard Armitage.
Thanks!
I agree, Great recommendation! I read it then shared the book with friends and bought extra copies to put in my local Little Free Libraries last year. Then I bought the audiobook to listen to while out for walks. Make it a great day!:)
Just watched the 1995 adaptation of _Persuasion_ . I always enjoy it.
_Emma_ for me this year.
Looking forward to the Caroline Bingley video
Thanks :)
I just learned this challenge existed and am so excited to participate! Can't wait to talk all things Austen!
The bingo game sounds like fun, so does the read along. I'm so excited it's time for Jane Austen July!
I’m so very excited for this! Last year was the first time and this will be my first year as a booktuber, which is exciting. It will be so much fun!
Yes! If I do nothing else on BookTube this year I will be doing Jane Austen July. I just got hold of Mansfield Park as an audio book so I will try to join the good reads group. Ros and I did Lovers' Vows last year and made a discussion video about it. It was an interesting experiment but not the best play!
Yes! Count me in! I will definitely be joining both the readalongs and will try to do as many of the other prompts as possible too. Thank you for hosting this wonderful readathon again 😊
I'm excited to reread Mansfield Park, the last of the main novels that I have yet to reread. I think I'll also include Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England in my TBR.
So excited! 🎉 Jane Austen July and Victober are my favorite bookish times of year! I’ve heard such good things about From Mansfield with Love, and really enjoyed that format with LBD, so I think I’ll have to check that one out this year! I completely agree that all the MP adaptations are fairly terrible. Fanny deserves so much better.
Mansfield With Love is excellent. First few episodes aren't the strongest so stick with it - a few episodes in you'll be hooked :)
I am looking forward to it! Love both Mansfield Park and Persuasion. I am not sure how many of the challenges I will manage this year (I am doing some traveling in July) but I will see what I can do.
Wow. That's a lot of books and videos to read in July. It's quite a challenge. I've read all Jane and a lot of adaptations of her novels right after I finished hers. They were good but left me let down because there is no other Jane Austen. In my JA Society we are reading a program like yours. Evelina by Burney, Miss Austen, and Jane Austen A Life by Tomlinson. Now we are reading Mansfield Park. I inhaled a lot of Jane's contemporaries early on. Now I'm going back. I'm glad to discover young women of quality reading Miss Austen. It does my heart good.
Oh! I have been waiting for this video to appear! I am very excited to read Mansfield Park again, it’s been awhile! I also finally own the John Mullan book after hearing so many great recommendations for it during JAJ.
I read Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and part of Mansfield Park in May. So excited to finish Mansfield Park and bought Lady Susan to read. So I am prepared!
I'm so excited to fully participate this year! I have my TBR all planned out, though it may be a bit ambitious.
Yay! Persuasion - my favourite! Mansfield Park I haven't read for years so will try to read along with both!
I won't have much time this July so I'm only planning on reading Sanditon and What Matters in Jane Austen and maybe I'll finally sit down to watch the (New) Emma film
I can’t wait to put together my TBR! I am pretty sure Sense and Sensibility will be one choice. I am so glad you and the team are putting this together again!
Thanks Hannah :)
I was just thinking about my Jane Austen July TBR right before this video came up 😆😆😆
I’m planning on a re-read of Mansfield Park and for the read a contemporary of Jane Austen prompt I plan to read “A Woman of Color” from 1808. It’s written by an anonymous black woman and it has to do with race and inheritance, and the blurb says it “ flouts the traditional marriage plot”…so that has me interested! I had never heard of it before but it was in an episode of Bonnets at Dawn and they really made me want to read it!
That sounds fascinating, I'll look that up too!
Yay! I always look forward to this readalong. I’m very excited for the bingo board!
YAY! Can't wait! It's my favourite time of year - Jane Austen July!!! Happy reading :)
Yay! Loved rereading Emma last year as it completely transformed how I felt about the novel (for the better). Looking forward to rereading Mansfield Park and hoping it will have the same effect.
Oxford University Press is closing its printing operation is definitely very sad-apparently they've been at it since 1586, just incredible-but the good news is we don't need to fear for the future of the World Classics series (yet). This is just the printing arm closing, not the whole press--so from a customer point of view the difference probably won't be noticeable, they'll simply be outsourcing the physical printing of the books to other sources...that is how I'm understanding it 💕
Yes! I’m in. I have a whole shelf of Jane Austen related books/retellings and I’ve read barely half of them. I just keep collecting them. 🤷🏻♀️ And I love that Claudia is involved too! Yay!
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Correction: that's The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain, by Ian Mortimer.
Yay!!! I'm so excited! I plan on rereading The Other Bennet Sister and reading Charlotte by Helen Moffett for the first time. Also, Reputation sounds excellent!
I have never participated in Jane Austen July, but I think I will be able to this year. I am really excited!
...Exciting!! ( Persuasion, my favorite!!) Thank you!! 💚📖
Getting back into my reading with Jane Austen July. Blame it on covid but I let my good reading habits go in 2020 and now it's time to return to normal!! So thank you for continuing this wonderful annual event!
Thanks :)
I was just thinking when you will announce the challenge and then I saw that you uploaded this video . I'm excited as I can ever be to participate in this challenge
So excited to participate again in Jane Austen July. Thank you for book and film recommendations and MP to stay away from. 👍
I'm excited for my first Jane Austen July as. Booktube creator. I cursed read Jane Austen in my thirties. I'm 70 now and ready for a re-read. Aloha
I've been so excited for this video! I can't wait to start thinking through my TBR!
Looking forward to reading Mansfield Park and the Other Bennet Sister. Really excited to see the BBC series of Pride and Prejudice and the 2020 Emma movie :)
Wasn't able to join in last year -gosh, can't believe it has been a year already- but I am really excited to try again this year. Hoping to read Mansfield, but my mom wants to read Emma, so I bought her a copy and we will be reading that together!
I'm currently reading Mansfield Park (my first time reading her work) and hearing about this readathon is a good reason to read more of Jane Austen. I've been wanting to read Pride and Prejudice and The Other Bennet Sister.
I read Emma for last Jane Austen July and this July I have Northanger Abbey to read. You and Claudia's inspiration led me to start my own booktube channel back in September, thanks.
Absolutely taking part. July is my birthday month and this readathon always makes the month even better. Putting together a tbr now :D
I am really excited to join in! I have "What Matters in Jane Austen", "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England" and "Jane Austen Selected Letters" now on order! Thanks for all the great recommends!
Yay super exciting! 🥳 Can’t wait! I will definitely be taking part in both read-alongs plus I have been meaning to get to Frances Burney for awhile now, thinking it’s fate 🤔 since she was Jane Austen’s contemporary, It’s added incentive to finally read her work during Jane Austen July 😉
Beyond excited to assemble my TBR! Also, it's been ages since I read Mansfield Park, and Persuasion is my favourite.
Did I mention how excited I am????
Yay :)
I'm looking forward to this every year. I've been (re)reading one Jane Austen novel every summer for a few years now, and yet I've never managed to coincide with your read-alongs! Oh well. XD This July I'm reading Northanger Abbey (for the first time in the original english), which I'm very excited about because it's been many years since I last read it and I remember loving it. I'll probably also listen to Miss Austen. We definitely need more non-P&P Austen retellings; someone needs to write a novel about Mary Crawford!
I love the bingo card by the way, I can't wait to use it!
I would absolutely read a Mary Crawford retelling.
Yipee! My copy of Elegant Etiquette has just arrived, so looking forward to reading it (and being relieved that I live now rather than then).
Enjoy :)
@@katiejlumsden I've read it! Easy, quick read. And really emphasised the full extent that the younger Bennet girls (and Mrs B) fell short of the standards expected of them.
I’m planning on 5 and maybe 6 of these prompts. I’ve been so excited about this Readathon and plan for it all year round. I am finally going to read sense and sensibility.. This is one of my favourite Readathons of the year 🎉🎉🎉 Got the books and dvds all ready too. Oh and I will join in on Mansfield park as I loved that loads ❤️❤️
So glad you're joining in Emily :)
My favourite so far is Sense and Sensability. I'm hoping to read Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
I haven’t been on booktube in about three weeks so I was so excited to see this today! Cant wait!
Thanks :)
Oh my goodness, a bingo board!? You have outdone yourselves this year!
:)
So excited to take part! It will be my first time
I will join you in rereading Mansfield Park as it has been some time since I’ve read it. I will probably reread Persuasion as I really love it. Maybe I will like MP better this time around.
I am excited about participating in this challenge for the first time. I plan to join the Persuasion read along since it has been longer since I last read it than MP. I also want to read a retelling but not sure which yet.
I am so excited for the Jane Austen July Readathon again this year!
3 cheers! This will be my second JA July. Persuasion is my favorite of JA's top six. Recently came across Ian Mortimer as The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain (I think it's out in the UK but not yet here in the US) -- that's my nonfiction pick this year. 🙂
Sounds intriguing :)
Yay, love Jane Austen July! I have ‘Sanditon and other stories’ which I haven’t read - I put it on my July tbr as soon as I got it a few months ago ☺️
Recently rewatched Emma and persuasion - think I might have to do the 1995 6-part pride and prejudice masterpiece again. My husband will be very happy to join me in that.
Yay, let's goooo 😍
HOORAH.
Yaay, I'm really happy that Mansfield Park is a group readalong, since it's the only Jane Austen I haven't read so far. I think I might also read Lover's Vows. I'll have to give some thought to other prompts, though.
Yes Jane Austen July is my favorite time of year!!
I'm very excited to participate this year, it will be my second time! I will not be able to take parte in all the challenges, but I have some books here from Jane and about Jane that I will try to read during the month :)
The bingo board looks so original!!
One of my favorite BookTube events!
So excited for this!! Especially after the rough few weeks I've had. This is just what I need to lift my spirits :)
My plans for the seven challenges so far:
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels: For this one the reread choice was down to either Mansfield Park or Sense and Sensibility. I'm glad you picked the former for the group readalong because I didn't quite appreciate it the first time I read it. I was 14 or 15 I think and it was my first Austen and one of my very first classics so that might've affected my reading experience. I'm intrigued to see how things go this time around.
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels: For this one I'm going with some of the Juvenilia not included in the Penguin Little Black Classics Edition. I'm especially excited for History of England!
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time: My choice for this year's nonfiction was the Lucy Worsley Biography. But...the disaster that is my local Mail System....ah well, fingers crossed they don't lose my books yet again 🙃 In any case I'll be watching Worsley's "The Age of the Regency" documentary series :D
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book: I'd love to read The Other Bennet Girl for this one but, yet again, Le Mail System... (Honestly thank goodness for Project Gutenberg for saving my life with the other challenges and with Victober!)
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen: Haven't made a final choice for this one but for now it's Lover's Vows and Volume One of Fanny Burney's Cecilia.
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book: Since there's no good MP adaptation I'll go with the 1995 P&P because I've only watched it once so far and the Mrs. Bennet in it just cracks me up 🤣 I might also rewatch the 2009 Emma because it's my favourite too!
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book: Obviously From Mansfield With Love! Also Clueless because a) It's Fab b) I've only watched it once so far c) I really need to introduce my younger sisters to it
Sorry if I have rambled on for too long :P
Wonderful choices, good luck :)
So excited to participate again!
So excited to participate again this year! My nonfiction just came in the mail, all about Regency dancing and balls. Not sure if you've heard of it but a new P&P retelling called The Heiress by Molly Grelley about Anne De Bourg came out. I may try to get to that one or Miss Austen.
Ah yes, I have been hearing about that one! And a non-fiction about Regency dancing sounds delightful!
This will be my first Jane Austen July. I'm very excited. :)
I am taking part😍 This will be my first year participating that I have a booktube channel🤗 I am so excited for Jane Austen July!
Namaste Katie 🤗I have been waiting for this!!! Will definitely be diving in!!! 👍📖📚😊
My favorite time of the year!
Oooh fun!! I saw someone in the comments recommending the Richard Armitage audiobook of The Jane Austen Society and that just sounds delightful 👀
Richard Armitage audiobooks are always delightful :)
Reading Lover’s Vows sounds like an excellent idea. I’d love to see exactly what made it so scandalous, especially considering the outcome of it in MP. I may reread Persuasion again with you guys. Thus far it’s my least favorite Austen (which isn’t saying much as all her books are 5 star reads), but it’s the favorite of a lot of people and I feel like, as I’m getting older, I’ll relate to Anne more.
I know, I'm so curious to read Lover's Vows! Persuasion is worth a reread - it's a bit quieter but it's such a wonderful read.
@@katiejlumsden it took me 3 full readings to appreciate the brilliance of Mansfield Park, so maybe it’ll work the same way with Persuasion!
I'll be reading Sense and Sensibility for the first time next month. My fourth Jane Austen novel.
I have been recommended Hazel Jones’ book about Jane’s nephews for a different spin on nonfiction. It is called The Other Knight Boys.
Sounds intriguing, thanks Naomi!
Back for a 3rd(?) year. Lol...I like MP 83. Has a very young Jonny Lee Miller for 8 seconds. I love that the '83 leads played a match making couple in Amazing Grace. And she was Mrs Allen in NA 07 and he was Mr Musgrove in Persuasion 08! :) It is sooo MP luck that the BBC Radio cast(Jones,Cumberbatch and Tennant) wasn't on screen.
So, I have seen that 83 MP but I didn't love it - I found it a little dull, but it was a long, long time ago I last saw it!
I enjoyed the miniseries of Mansfield Park from 1983. I haven't liked others, but I thought Fanny was well done there.
Yeah I have seen that one, but I think I found it a little slow and flat? Fanny was portrayed rightly, but when you can see in her head it became a little less interesting for me, I suppose. I haven't seen it for about ten years though!
@@katiejlumsden I watched it for the first time last year and was very impressed with how like the book it was. Particularly in comparison with the others I've seen. It had its faults, to be sure, but I thought it captured the story and tone really well.
I agree! Sadly, the best MP cast in my view is the BBC Radio version. Felicity Jones, Cumberbatch, and Tennant. Amanda Root as the narrator!!!!
I am definitely in! I will do a Persuasion themed Jane Austen July 😉
Last years Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner was a good read. I can also recommend, A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz, The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World by Margaret C. Sullivan and Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe. Happy Reading everyone!;-D
Thanks :)
A few recommendations for Challenge 3 - Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
Jane Austen and Her World (1969) by Marghanita Laski, author Victorian Chaise-longue
A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978) by Lord David Cecil, father of character actor and Jeeves and Wooster audiobook narrator Jonathan Cecil
Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon, writer of many novels and a good (and book accurate) BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1980
Oh No No No No!!! I can't, I can't read Mansfield Park again!! I reread it last year for JAJ, and it nearly killed me! I hate it I hate it so much! I hate every character! NO!
I look forward to rereading Persuasion though! It's my second favourite Austen novel, First obviously being Pride and Prejudice!
Haha perhaps just the Persuasion readalong for you then XD
I'm torn between re-reading Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park. They're my least favorite Austens and I'm determined to fall in love with all of her books! 😎💜📚
I've been trying (and failing) to find a screen adaptation of Northanger Abbey that I actually like. Any recommendations???🎥📺
Have you seen the 2007 film of Northanger Abbey? I really enjoy that one. And highly recommend rereading Mansfield Park - it's really one that improves on a reread.
I love Jane Austen July!!!
YAY PERSUASION!!!!!!!
Oh yay! Will you be doing in depth analysis of the plot, characters etc? Could u? Pretty please 😊
Oh which book? And focused on what specifically? I think if I just tried to do in depth analysis of everything I'd be there for hours XD
@@katiejlumsden Of course! Sorry I didn't know how it worked.. just got excited when I saw Jane Austen being mentioned lol.. I'd love it if you could do Pride and Prejudice.. yes it's a much discussed book, but mostly superficially that I've seen.. I was wondering if you could focus on the psychological makeup of the main characters.. esp Elizabeth's inner world as she deals with the possibility of perpetual spinsterhood.. and also Darcy, and the male-female dynamic versus what we have in modern society. If you feel that it's too cliched, then my other request would be Persuasion. It's the only JA novel that I haven't read.. I can then read it in time and follow along if you do decide to go in depth. Hope you do, either way I will be tuning in! Thank you x
I read Waverley by Sir Walter Scott; it was great. I once read The Monk by Matthew Lewis; it was very naughty (but it was not great).
Perhaps this year I'll finally read some Sir Walter Scott. It's about time!
1983 Mansfield Park movie was the most faithful to the book, I got my daughter to read the book but she didn't like Edmund as she felt he was mean to Fanny. We had the great fun to watch The Jane Austin Book Club and laugh at the comment, "What was so bad about Henry Crawford?"
I really must watch the Jane Austen Book Club sometime!
The Adaptation of Mansfield Park in the 80s was a good mini series. It covers all the main elements and all the actors are good. I think the actress who played Fanny captured her quite well. All the others made her perky. Grrrr!
Yeah I have seen that one. I found it a little flat at the time, but it was many years ago!
There is a re-telling of Emma from Jane Fairfax's point of view.
Oooo what's it called? I think I might rather like that one.
@@katiejlumsden Its called Jane Fairfax and its by Joan Aiken.
Hello, I used to read when i was in school (that was 10 years ago) and now I am 25 and 2 months ago I have started reading again. In the two months I have read a Dan Brown book(origin), one Mistborn series book, Magpie and Moonflower Murders and now I am reading Honjin murders. This video of yours came up in my recommendations as I am watching booktubers a lot these days and I love your channel already which focusses a lot on classic books and historical fiction. Since you are starting this July Jane Austen readathon, I really want to participate in it but I am not sure whether I am ready to read such a high level author. Even so, should I start with Pride and Prejudice or do you recommend any other book of hers? thanks in advance for answering.
I think Pride and Prejudice is the best place to start, personally :)
Will this be followed with Anthony Trollope August? Think about it. Or next year, Anthony Trollope April?
But he's already in Victober! The whole idea of JAJ was originally that I felt sad one of my favourite classic authors wasn't viable for Victober :)
@@katiejlumsden Compared to so many (not all) Vic authors, he's got so many titles. One day, maybe, AT'll get his own lit.-month, even if it is a 1-shot deal event. Yes, he'll get some readers in Victober, among so many other quality authors, and some perhaps not quite so much.
Just found out about this group. I would like to be involved in the discussion for Jane Austen in July 2022, if it is taking place. I've only read three of Austen's novels, but I love them. How do I join? What novel(s) will you be reading this year? (BTW, I participated in Faulkner in August last year, and loved discussing Sanctuary with everyone.)
The best way to join is to join the Goodreads group here www.goodreads.com/group/show/976576-jane-austen-july-2021 . There will be an announcement video up on this channel in June 2022 with the plans, but we haven't picked this year's readalongs yet.
@@katiejlumsden I just signed up. Thanks.