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#JaneAustenJuly
In which I announce Jane Austen July . . .
My co-host, Marissa, Blatantly Bookish: tinyurl.com/yb3ejvyc
Marissa’s announcement video: • Jane Austen July 2020 ...
The Goodreads group: tinyurl.com/y7t4n8cd
My previous Jane Austen July videos:
2018: tinyurl.com/ycjcgzyz
2019: tinyurl.com/y7d3plvs
--Challenges--
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book
--Readalong Schedules--
Emma:
1st July: chapters 1, 2, 3
2nd: 4, 5, 6
3rd: 7, 8, 9
4th: 10, 11, 12, 13
5th: 14, 15, 16, 17
6th: 18, 19, 20,
7th: 21, 22, 23,
8th: 24, 25, 26
9th: 27, 28, 29
10th: 30, 31, 32
11th: 33, 34, 35, 36
12th: 37, 38, 39, 40
13th: 41, 42, 43
14th: 44, 45, 46
15th: 47, 48, 49
16th: 50, 51, 52
17th: 53, 54, 55
Pride and Prejudice:
18th July: chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
19th: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
20th: 11, 12, 13, 14
21st: 15, 16, 17, 18,
22nd: 19, 20, 21, 22
23rd: 23, 24, 25, 26,
24th: 27, 28, 29, 30,
25th: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
26th: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
27th: 41, 42, 43, 44
28th: 45, 46, 47, 48
29th: 49, 50, 51, 52
30th: 53, 54, 55, 56,
31st: 57, 58, 59, 60, 61
--Books Mentioned--
Emma: tinyurl.com/y977tgxs
Review: tinyurl.com/yb7ox4xz
Pride and Prejudice: tinyurl.com/y742h5ee
Review: tinyurl.com/y78lzgga
Northanger Abbey: tinyurl.com/yc5lbo6h
Review: tinyurl.com/y7yhc3g8
Sense and Sensibility: tinyurl.com/yc4ssnyv
Review: tinyurl.com/ycokbtxw
Mansfield Park: tinyurl.com/yawvjetp
Review: tinyurl.com/yamaznlo
Persuasion: tinyurl.com/ybyorcrq
Review: tinyurl.com/ycqo6vhc
Lady Susan: tinyurl.com/y86avgpx
Review: tinyurl.com/y86ude3m
Juvenilia and Unfinished works (including The Watsons and Sanditon): tinyurl.com/y7sdyo64
History of England: tinyurl.com/ybyt36je
Jane Austen’s Letters: tinyurl.com/ycoakubl
Jane Austen at Home, Lucy Worsley: tinyurl.com/y7qrufqt
Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin: tinyurl.com/y76yl4gs
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England, Roy and Lesley Adkins: tinyurl.com/ybebd4ay
Elegant Etiquette in the 19th Century, Mallory James: tinyurl.com/yalrlgr6
What Matters in Jane Austen, John Mullan: tinyurl.com/yd9xyea4
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding: tinyurl.com/lh6ufsq
Longbourn, Jo Baker: tinyurl.com/ya4pnh7t
The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow: tinyurl.com/w9qymaq
Charlotte, Helen Moffett: tinyurl.com/y8zkzwr5
Miss Austen, Gill Hornby: tinyurl.com/y87c75be
Marriage, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier: tinyurl.com/yd2yw2dy
Evelina, Frances Burney: tinyurl.com/yc2l3fvc
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley: tinyurl.com/y95h5x2d
The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith: tinyurl.com/ybhsx5r8
Maria Edgeworth: tinyurl.com/y9zf7ywy
Frances Burney: tinyurl.com/ybdwmh4t
Self-Control, Mary Brunton: tinyurl.com/y8tnkpxn
Sir Walter Scott: tinyurl.com/yath6bj4
Ann Radcliffe: tinyurl.com/yd6d6utv
The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis: tinyurl.com/y7bznkls
The Vampyre, John William Polidori: tinyurl.com/ybl89qz3
Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock: tinyurl.com/ybvx4lp4
William Blake: tinyurl.com/yahg6bjh
William Wordsworth: tinyurl.com/y9bl4xxj
--Screen Adaptations Mentioned--
Video on screen adaptations: tinyurl.com/ybeb5rj9
Emma (2009): www.imdb.com/title/tt1366312
Emma (2020): www.imdb.com/title/tt9214832/
Sense and Sensibility (2008): www.imdb.com/title/tt0847150
Pride and Prejudice (2005): www.imdb.com/title/tt0414387/
Pride and Prejudice (1995): www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/
Northanger Abbey (2007): www.imdb.com/title/tt0844794
Love and Friendship: www.imdb.com/title/tt3068194/
Bridget’s Jones’s Diary: www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155
Bride and Prejudice: www.imdb.com/title/tt0361411/
Clueless: www.imdb.com/title/tt0112697
Lost in Austen: www.imdb.com/title/tt1117666/
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: tinyurl.com/y72qe9be
Emma Approved: tinyurl.com/y7762qcb
Northbound: tinyurl.com/y7fnhv9q
From Mansfield With Love: tinyurl.com/y7ne8fnp
--General links--
My website: www.katielumsden.co.uk
Twitter: / katiejlumsden
Instragram: / katiejlumsden
Goodreads: / katie-lumsden
Email: katie.booksandthings@gmail.com

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Комментарии : 231

@kompas29 4 года назад

Yay! This and Victober are the best initiatives on BookTube! Thanks for great and varied recommendations of works of JA contemporaries!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :D

@jenniferbrooks 4 года назад

I can't wait! I'll be reading the last full novel of Jane Austen's I have left--Persuasion. I'm a little sad but I'm also thrilled because I have such a good feeling about Persuasion. I've been squirreling away books for Jane Austen July for a little while now. So excited!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Persuasion is so good - enjoy!

@a.g.2790 4 года назад

You will enjoy! I started reading Persuasion MANY years ago & stopped halfway because I got the BBC movie.💗 So I started rereading it a few days ago & plan to finish by Monday hopefully.

@raffaellasero4392 4 года назад

I can't believe I missed this before! I am the greatest Jane Austen fan who ever lived (I've got a prize I promise)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Then I hope you enjoy Jane Austen July!

@ABearandaBeeBooks 4 года назад

I’m so excited! I’m looking forward to participating again. I’ve already started working on my TBR. Thanks again for hosting!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hoorah!

@deborahwatkins1493 4 года назад

So much information!!! You kept me busy taking notes. Sounds like a wonderful month to look forward to. :-)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :)

@genresandjournals 4 года назад

Yay! I’m so excited Jane Austen July is almost here. I had so much fun last year. Can’t wait to participate again!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :D

@meghanthestorygirl4581 4 года назад

I can hardly wait to start this! Thanks so much for running this again! I just reread all her works so I'm going to be reading her letters and some retellings. Also, I love What Matters in Jane Austen, and I can't wait to see all your content!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yay :D

@izabelbrekilien9658 4 года назад

I'm si excited, thanks for the goodreads invite ! I started re-reading all of Jane Austen's books recently (I'm currently reading Mansfield Park) and having a whole month dedicated to this wonderful author makes me want to jump and shout ! This is going to be so good !

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks! Hope you're enjoying Mansfield ark again, I love it so much.

@kirikincell8294 4 года назад

I've been looking forward to this announcement! Already have most of my picks for the challenges. Love that you do this each year!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hoorah - I'm so excited.

@dejectioncatreads1758 4 года назад

Yeeees! I was saving my Austen unread books because of this wonderful initiative! I'm in!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :D

@hawctalks9882 4 года назад

What a great idea! Excited for it to begin:)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :)

@tillysshelf 4 года назад

Oh so exciting! I'm so looking forward to July and have been planning my reading since August last year.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 4 года назад

Me too as you know 😘

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hoorah!

@thejoyfultutor 4 года назад

Thanks so much for this. I discovered your challenge through Claudia from Spinster’s Library and it’s very exciting. Really looking forward to planning a month of Austen and the read-alongside and discussions. Very interested in in everything you mentioned. As for film and TV, one of my favourites is the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. So glad you mentioned Lost in Austen because it was great fun!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I do love the 1995 Persuasion too - maybe I should watch that, it's been too long since I've seen it!

@mysunnyreadingcorner6777 4 года назад

I'm looking forward to joining you again in Jane Austen July. 😊 As July is a very busy month at work for me, I can only participate in two challenges. I'm going to re-read "Sense and Sensibility" and "What Matters in Jane Austen". I read Emma in March because I wanted to go and see the new screen adaptation which in the end, I couldn't do due to Corona😢

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks! I hope you enjoy the readathon - What Matters in Jane Austen is amazing.

@statuscold 4 года назад

Congratulations on five years, Katie! I’ve been a subscriber a long time, and thoroughly enjoy all of your content. You make it seem so effortless, but I’m sure a lot of thought goes into preparing these videos. Your Behind The Scenes At Books and Things video was an eye opener for me as to how much is involved in every video. One of my many favorite videos was the shot of you sitting at Elizabeth Gaskell’s desk. Thank you for responding to every one of my comments.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks John! Oh yes, that Gaskell video was years ago! Booktube is a lot of effort but I love it.

@SpinstersLibrary 4 года назад

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS. I'll join the P&P readalong for sure, it's my favourite! And I've already been thinking about video ideas for July! Time to start planning my TBR, I think :D Thank you for the recommendation, especially the non-fiction ones. Lots of interesting choices here

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

HOORAH!

@HannahsBooks 4 года назад

I am so thrilled this reading event is finally almost here! I have a pile of brand new Austen-adjacent books to read. I had been thinking that I would read Sense and Sensibility, since it has been such a long time since I’ve read it. But perhaps I will join the P&P read along instead. The new film version of Emma is also on my list! And I think I need to rewatch Clueless. What a great film! Thanks for all your suggestions.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Clueless is sooo good and great fun.

@miranda8598 4 года назад

Books and Things And it’s an Emma read along too??

@ChaoticBibliophile 4 года назад

So excited for this! I picked up What Matters in Jane Austen? years ago and have been saving it for when I finally finish all of her novels, so it’s great to hear you love it so much.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

It's so, so good - I highly recommend it.

@maggiekearney1399 4 года назад

I've been compiling a tentative TBR since January. Pretty sure I'm gonna be able to meet all of the challenges.Very excited!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :D

@keddw 4 года назад

Thank you Kate. I'm going to join the Emma readalong. Looking forward to it.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :D

@taylorrae3316 4 года назад

I'm so excited! I'm planning to listen to my Audible edition of Emma, I'm so glad there's a readalong! Have you ever seen the film Austenland? It's hilarious. I'll definitely be watching it sometime in July. I also found Austen's letters on Project Gutenberg, hooray! What fun. 😊📖

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hoorah! I haven't seen Austenland, but I definitely want to.

@rachy5384 4 года назад

I'm so excited for this - literally can't wait. I'll be joining in Jane Austen July this year and have just joined the Goodreads group :) I've read all her novels but are looking forward to re-reading 1 or 2 of them (probably will do the P&P read with you as I love it so much, it's my favourite) and discovering her other works. I've read a lot of her contemporaries already as I did my Dissertation at uni on Women writers in the C.18th... I loved doing it and discovered some fabulous authors in the process including Maria Edgeworth (her novel 'Belinda' is brilliant) and Frances Burney and Mary Brunton and Ann Radcliffe. In terms of non-fiction I love Lucy Worsley and will probably seek out that book to hers that you linked in the description. I've favourited this video and will probs watch it several more time before July :) I love your enthusiasm in videos and always enjoy watching you - it makes me more excited for my reading. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos throughout July. Thank you

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

YAY. I'm hoping to read Belinda in Jane Austen July - it's good to hear you enjoyed it!

@cynthiaespinoza4514 4 года назад

What a wonderful video! It's been so long since I've read Jane Austen, so I'm really looking forward to joining in this year. However, I may just start now in June & continue through July since it'll take me a while to get through all the books! Thank you for you're recommendations!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great to hear - Jane Austen is so good!

@jenadams2576 4 года назад

I am so excited for this! I have been looking forward to this all year. I have never participated but I am excited to be a part this year. I love Jane Austen and just recently read all her published and some unpublished works. After reading her published works I made lists ranking my favorite characters. I have watched your ranking videos and I enjoyed those. In my lists, I also tried to think about lessons I learned from the characters (as part of my evaluation of each character). So, for instance, one lesson you can learn from Elizabeth Bennet (and Mr. Darcy) is to check your bias and see how it is or could be impacting your decisions and actions. I think that could be a fun video for you and I would love to see how each character has impacted you, and what lesson(s) you take away from them. :)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks! Jane Austen is so amazing. I love the idea of learning lessons from Jane Austen characters :)

@thenaviniki 4 года назад

I am so glad I found this channel today and in time for Jane Austen July!! I would love it if you could film some _educational_ content on her novels in the sense of discussing key themes, metaphors, etc. I'd love to see some literary analysis of the works from your perspective. :)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks! I've done some videos on class/money (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0UQ0IAOf2go.html) and marriage (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qFt5bafveMM.html) in Jane Austen before and I have some other thematic ideas for this year. I'll freely admit that I'm not the best at close textual analysis though - definitely more comfortable talking about themes than metaphors and literary devices!

@samantha.irenes 4 года назад

I'm looking forward to this! I'm going to be reading some of Jane Austen's poetry 😊

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Are there very many? I think I've just read a couple in her letters.

@samantha.irenes 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden Well actually I just borrowed the ebook from my library without looking, but now that you said that I checked and, no, there are not many at all. Which actually makes sense seeing as no one ever talks about them. I'll read them anyway, but doubled-up with her letters for that challenge, I think!

@ZoeBeck7 4 года назад

I have been looking forward to JAJ and I’m glad it’s happening again I have so many books I’d love to read that I’ve picked up over the last year. It’ll be hard to decide which books to read. And I’m really looking forward to your videos throughout the month. -Amy

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :)

@adrikamondal5186 4 года назад

I bought Love and Friendship by Jane Austen in Kindle and the very next day came to know about this intriguing readathon about *Jane* *Austen* !!!! Very excited😘

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I hope you enjoy it :)

@booksimnotreading 4 года назад

Finally! I am so excited to participate this year as I missed it the last two years. I totally agree with you about Death Comes to Pemberly.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yay, glad you're participating :)

@Fortheloveofclassics 4 года назад

I am going to join in! It’s going to be my first doing the Jane Austen July. I’m not sure I will be able to do all the challenges: but I will try my best. Thank God my copy of Marriage by Susan Ferrier is here on Tim.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I quite enjoyed Marriage; it was good fun.

@MaryAmongStories 4 года назад

really hoping I can join, this is wonderful ^^

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I hope you join in :)

@LanaCelebic 4 года назад

This will be my first Jane Austen July and I'm very excited about it, can't wait!!! I've already made a decision on prompts 1 (Emma), 2 (Lady Susan), and 5 (Frankenstein). I'm still thinking about other prompts, but there's time to figure it out. Thank you both for hosting this.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great, glad you're excited :)

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace 4 года назад

Thank you so much for doing this! I love the challenges. I need to read Northangar Abbey so I can say "I've read all the novels." Definitely going to try to fit that in, plus challenges 6 & 7. Mansfield Park is my favorite Austen 😍 Mostly bc Fanny is one of my favorite heroines ever.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yes, Mansfield Park is so amazing and so underrated! Hope you enjoy Northanger Abbey :)

@DarlingDesi 4 года назад

I will 100% be participating in this! So funny because I spent May rereading Emma and 3 Jane Austen inspired books lol But there's no such thing as too much Jane Austen!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Agreed!

@tomreadsthings7145 4 года назад

This is so what I need right now! Yay! 😀😀😀😀

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

YAY

@artjournalstories7313 4 года назад

This is great! Joined the group. I never read Emma, so I'm very excited :) I'd love it if you made a video about your ALL TIME favourite Austen retellings rather than recent ones, so we have a larger coverage :) Thank you!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :) Maybe I'll do that instead - I think I'd probably only have two to add to the recent ones anyway!

@DrOctaviaCox 4 года назад

Such a wonderful idea!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :D

@RaineyDayReads 4 года назад

YAY!!! I need this in my life right now! I might have to pick up Charlotte on ebook! I love Charlotte Lucas.

@taylorrae3316 4 года назад

I was also thinking of looking for Charlotte on ebook Rainey! It sounds so good.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I highly recommend it - it's wonderful!

@FHMS97 4 года назад

im SO excited for this!! thank u for sharing so many recommendations 🙌 john mullans book is one of my favourite things ever - hes quickly become one of my fav literary critics and ever since ive been trying to read everything hes ever written on austen (there are a lot of fun videos of him on youtube talking about austen too if youre interested ☺) id love to see a video about how jane austen has been seen as both a progressive and a conservative at the same time. a lot of people are like "well all her books always end with her heroines marrying, thats not very feminist" but then of course others point to the incisive ways she writes about women and matters of social class. that austen can be viewed as part of both camps has always been so interesting to me!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

John Mullan is just so amazing! So, I have sort of made a video like that before, though quite a while ago! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5J2VQ94-Ri8.html

@bookishshenanigans4769 4 года назад

Oh my goodness I'm so excited! I don't know if you've read it but there's a collection of short stories called Sansei and Sensibility which I think has modern adaptations of a few of her novels and it's on Scribd.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

YAY. So, I have heard of this - Marissa was telling me about it the other day - but I haven't read it yet. Sounds great!

@laraelwing 4 года назад

I will definitely join :) I've been meaning to reread (if possible) all her novels, became I've read What matters in Jane Austen recently (it was your recommendation ;) ) and I felt such love for all the novels again and missed reading my favorites and thought I should give a reread to the ones I didn't particularly loved the first time around, now that I feel I understand better the themes aimed there and nuances I had missed. That is really a great book, the best part was seeing how Jane Austen "manipulated" us into feeling more or less empathy for a certain character just by changing the way they're mentioning: Charlotte/Miss Lucas for instance. It is brilliant :)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

What Matters in Jane Austen is just so amazing!

@MLLatUtube 4 года назад

I love Jane Austen and agree with you about Mansfield Park. Jane Austen July is a wonderful idea and I look forward to it.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yes, Mansfield Park is so good!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 4 года назад

Looking forward to this enormously. I had been planning Emma for my reread this time so thrilled to find out it is the first readalong. I have been promising myself the Lucy Worsley. I was expecting to have a dilemma whether to pick The Other Bennet Sister or Miss Austen, but now you tell me about Charlotte.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

There are just so many great Jane Austen related things to read!

@amandalavelle2638 4 года назад

Not sure if I get more excited by Jane Austen July or Victober. But both hold such a special place in my classics loving heart. I’ve been making a tbr since March so I’m all set xx

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :D

@gabrielcardoso8512 4 года назад

Nice recommendations 👏

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks :)

@AmandaQuotidianBooks 4 года назад

I’m so pumped for Jane Austen July!!!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

YAY

@thiadesg 4 года назад

I've been waiting for the announcement for weeks. I don't know why, but I've been in a serious Jane Austen kick lately and will definitely join in this readathon.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :)

@lisa60932 4 года назад

Looking forward to Jane Austen July as usual!! One P&P retelling I enjoyed last year was Fair Stands the Wind, where Darcy is in the Navy and is the second son - I loved it! Haven’t found any retellings of her other books I liked though unfortunately. Would you do a video on Jane Austen places that you’ve been? Last year I went on a Jane Austen trip around the south of England and it was the best holiday ever, I thought if I did make videos it would have been such a good bookish vlog! Bath was my favourite, but obviously also Chawton and it was so cool to go to other lesser known places like Box Hill and the cobb in Lyme Regis!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, I haven't been to as many Jane Austen places as I'd like to have. I used to live in Bath, but to my shame I've never been to Chawton or Lyme Regis. I have been to Box Hill when I was little but I don't really remember it!

@beckybleaden 4 года назад

So excited for this! I'll be rereading Persuasion (for the 5th time?!) and I think I will read Lady Susan for the first time. Looking forward to rewatching Emma too (2020). Will see what I can do for the other challenges - thank you for organising this!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Oh Lady Susan is such a great one - you're in for a treat!

@beckybleaden 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden I loved the film so I cannot wait to read it!

@theramblingreviewer5150 4 года назад

New to booktube and these readathons, but i am definitely hoping to do this in July! Gonna order the penguin delux Austen novels for this!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Enjoy :)

@KierTheScrivener 4 года назад

I am very excited for Jane Austen July, most excited fornonfiction and one of her contempories, though I am very excired to finished reading through her works! love the web adaptions of her novels!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks - enjoy the readathon!

@anat646 4 года назад

I'm thrilled! I just read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and watched the 1995 adaptation and completely fell in love with it (of course). I loved Pride and Prejudice so much, I ordered Emma online and it'll arrive soon! It's the first time I'll be able to participate in your challenges and can't wait to start reading by your side. I bought it in the original language, another reason why I'm excited. I read Pride and Prejudice in Portuguese, beautifully translated but I'm glad I could buy Emma in English, it's always nice when you can read in the original language, specially since I'll be accompanying you (I can only read in English, French and, of course, Portuguese).

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Pride and Prejudice is amazing! I hope you like Emma :) I see how you say you 'only' read in English French and Portuguese! Well, I'm impressed. I can only read English!

@gwen9620 4 года назад

Looking forward to this! Have you seen PBS of Sanditon? John Mullan's lectures on Jane Austen are fantastic and funny. If you attended the Jane Austen festival in Bath, please share your experiences. Thanks.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, I've seen half of Sanditon, but I wasn't a fan and gave up. I'm afraid I haven't been to the Jane Austen festival, though I'd love to go!

@BookZealots 4 года назад

Huzzah, Huzzah, Huzzah! Really not fair that I cannot find a copy of Charlotte anywhere. Online it says to pre-order. And the England edition is so pretty~ After doing much research while pausing your video and seeing all of the other gor - GORGEOUS editions, why? why? Who do I talk to about this? Austenites all over the world want gorgeous editions. 🤗 I'm so thrilled to be able to participate this year. My son is also going to particpate. He says he's going to try all seven challenges! Yay! I thought I would read The Mysteries of Udolpho, but now I'm considering Fanny Burney. I've not read anything by her. Great video and thank you for all of the suggestions.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, Charlotte is only out in ebook and audiobook at the moment. The hardback is coming out later this year. Glad you're going to participate :D

@BookZealots 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden Thank you for the information on the book Charlotte, Katie. I've added it to my tbr.

@BigFamilyByTheBeach 4 года назад

I'm working through Persuasion now and I LOVE it so much ❤️

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

It's so good!

@CrankyKat4106 4 года назад

I’m in! It is finally (FINALLY!) time for me to re-read Pride and Prejudice. I just watched Clueless for the millionth time last night, so it might be time for me to finally read Emma, too. An adaptation of Sanditon aired here in the U.S. a few months ago that I really enjoyed. Has it aired in the UK? I’m sure the BBC had something to do with the production, but I’m not certain. I would also like to read a nonfiction book about Ms. Austen, but I’m not sure if I have enough time to squeeze it in. Thank you so much for your recommendations, though! I always enjoy listening to you talk about books; your joy always shines through the screen.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yes, Sanditon has aired in the UK - I didn't really like it and didn't finish it, though!

@launchedathousand 4 года назад

I'm so excited to participate again this year! Can't wait to read Emma as this will be my first reread of it. Not sure which contemporary of her's I plan to read yet, kind of want to attempt a gothic novel but I also want to read more Scott (Ivanhoe is a decent novel and has some interesting characters). The nonfiction I plan to read is called A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and her Character's went to the Ball by Susannah Fullterton.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I'm really excited to reread Emma - it's been so long! A Dance with Jane Austen sounds great!

@amusicalbookworm 4 года назад

Hello, I’m going to be participating in Jane Austen July for the first time! I’ve only listened to Pride and Prejudice on audiobook, and it wasn’t a very good audiobook so I didn’t love it. I’m excited to actually dedicate some time to reading her works. I plan on reading Emma and Pride and Prejudice with you! And maybe I can squeeze in Sense and Sensibility or Mansfield Park. So excited for this! Thanks for all the adaptation suggestions.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great to hear! She's such an amazing author.

@TooFondofBooksJH 4 года назад

Thank you for hosting this wonderful readathon! And thank you for all the recommendations and ideas in this video. One interesting thing - I have Jane Austen's England by Roy & Lesley Adkins on my tbr. It must be the American title? I'm not sure why they changed it. I actually like your editions title better.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yep, it's the same book - not sure why they changed the title!

@juliequick5526 4 года назад

I’m in! I’ve already bought The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler and was planning on Emma and Pride and Prejudice being the two I read longest ago. Jen Campbell is currently part way through narrating Pride and Prejudice on her channel and I was planning to read along with that. She has a patreon account and I plan on tipping her in that, but it’s not a requirement. I think I’m most excited about non fiction this year though so thanks for the excellent suggestions 🧡

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I haven't read The Jane Austen Book Club, but I really want to. It sounds so good!

@theredheadisreading2251 4 года назад

Oooo I was planning to reread Emma this month, but it sounds like I should just wait for July! And yes, the Alexander McCall Smith version was sooooo strange!!!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Enjoy! And yes, the Alexander McCall Smith one is sooo weird.

@vasanthm7096 4 года назад

Good evening mam. You are excellent speaker. You're speaking like thunder and your description below your video is also superb. Thank you posting very useful videos. Surely I am going to strictly follow your Jane Austen s challenge coming July....I am from India we always like British English and British people....

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks!

@shannonwinslow4361 4 года назад

Enjoyed this video and especially you obvious enthusiasm for all things Jane Austen! You asked for ideas of Jane Austen related novels based on something other than Pride and Prejudice. I've written 2 or 3 that might interest you (as well as several others). "Murder at Northanger Abbey" is a just-published, fun-filled, slightly spooky sequel to NA. "The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen" supposes that JA wrote "Persuasion" as a reflection of events in her own life. "Leap of Hope" is a time-travel escapade where a modern-day college girl is transported to Regency England, looking for a "Pride and Prejudice" kind of happy ending; instead she finds herself in a "Mansfield Park" scenario. All are highly rated, so I hope you will take a look. Best wishes, Shannon Winslow.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Leap of Hope sounds super fun! Thanks :)

@gbuireh6497 4 года назад

I love Jane Austen July. I got Lucy Worsleys Jane Austen at Home for my birthday in september and have been saving it for this!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I hope you like it - it's so good!

@jf8559 4 года назад

Yay! Participating for the first time and will be re-reading P&P and reading Mansfield Park for the first time. As for the other plans: 2. Lady Susan 3. A nice Collected Letters I have had for ages 4. The Other Bennett Sister 5.The Monk by RG Lewis 6. Emma with Romula Garrai 7. Lizzie Bennett diaries web series And completely agree about Love and Friendship. I love it so much and think Kate Beckinsale is so great in it.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hoorah! I hope you like Mansfield Park - it's so amazing.

@CarolynsReadingRamblings 4 года назад

So excited for Jane Austen July! Ok I was going to read P&P early in the month so I could then read retellings but now I might be weird and read the retellings BEFORE P&P so that I can participate in the readalong. I just reread Emma in March so sadly won't participate in that one but I would love to reread Persuasion instead. I was going to read Pamela but I checked and sadly it's too long before her time to count for the challenge lol. I think I'll read Evelina instead because I've been meaning to read it for the last few Jane Austen July readathons lol. I definitely want to read both Longbourn and Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors if I can fit them in and I'm hoping my library has the digital audio of Pride by Ibi Zoboi because I've wanted to read that since it came out. Wonderful video as always Katie! 😀❤️📘❤️🎧🙌.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Great :D Yeah, I kind of want to read Pamela, but it's so long!! I definitely need to see what my library has on audio for me to read as well.

@CarolynsReadingRamblings 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden yeah I do want to read it soon because the only soap opera I have ever really enjoyed is based on that book so I do want to read it and I got the audio cheap on Audible but it is definitely super long so I'm still intimidated lol.

@laraelwing 4 года назад

I've been meaning to read Jane Austen at Home and The other Bennet sister, and also to watch the new Emma adaptation, so I'll take this opportunity to get on with these goals in July 😊

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Enjoy!

@Maria_Efe 4 года назад

I have really been looking forward to Jane Austen July this year! I also wish there were more retellings of her other novels; I had been thinking recently how much I would like a retelling of Emma for example through Jane Fairfax's perspective! So many retellings have been published recently: Lucy Worsley's "The Austen Girls" about Jane's nieces as well as Natalie Jenner's "The Jane Austen Society" only in the last couple of months!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yes, I've been hearing about those two as well. I would absolutely love to read a Jane Fairfax perspective!

@vehement-critic_q8957 4 года назад

I always come across Jane Austen, but I hadn't the chance yet to read any of her works although I've watched Sense & Sensibility movie starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet and it is superb!!! Cool, you don't miss anything and the aura of enthusiasm you feel towards Jane Austen's works is clear and "sensible" = sensed = felt. Well, it seems I'm dedicating this month to Scottish poetry for I am reading Robert Burn's complete poems and songs, so I hope to manage read Jane Austen.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I highly recommend her works - she's amazing!

@a.g.2790 4 года назад

I cheated & already started...😂 Great book suggestions there!💕 Thank you! It is going to be an amazing Jane Austen July.💗

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Nothing wrong with that :D

@CharlesHeathcote 4 года назад

I will try and participate, though I make no promises. I don't have the best history with Jane Austen - I've yet to find a book of hers that I felt suited my tastes. (It's one of the reasons I only managed to get through Emma last July.) I will try harder this year and hope tons of folk get on board for this rather exceptional reading challenge.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

She is great, so I hope you manage to get on a bit better with her this time. Maybe try Lady Susan if you haven't - it's quite different.

@miket8814 3 года назад

I must say that listening to Rosamund Pike read Pride and Prejudice and also I think Sense and Sensibility is a huge treat!

@ashgarstin4307 4 года назад

Yay! My father actually just brought me a copy of Peide and Prejudice that belonged to my great Aunt who I loved very much. I've read P&P many times, but I have been looking forward to rereading the copy that I know that she read and enjoyed when she was still with us. I think I'm going to finally get Jane Austen at Home; I've had it on my wishlist for a while.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Jane Austen at Home is great - I highly recommend it.

@ashgarstin4307 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden I'll be very excited to get to it. I really enjoyed her book on Queen Victoria.

@BernasBookishAdventures 4 года назад

I am planning to participate with Northanger Abbey & retelling & adaptations because it is the novel I have read once 🤗

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Enjoy :)

@reader4532 4 года назад

Can't wait for jane austen July! For a Sense and Sensibility modern day retelling, I enjoyed The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Sounds interesting - I'll look it up!

@ReadABookGem 4 года назад

After being very badly taught Jane Austen at school it left me with a really negative impression of her books. Now quite a lot of years have passed since then (😢) I do feel like it is time for me to try again so count me in! Thanks for these recommendations they will be so helpful when choosing my TBR for July 😊

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I do recommend giving her another try :)

@misssavvyliterature5977 4 года назад

You are my favourite notification❤

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Ha thanks :)

@abookolive 4 года назад

I'm in! 😁👏

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yay!

@GinaBlythe 4 года назад

I may actually be able to participate in it! 😊

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yay!

@lesliegb5543 4 года назад

Yes - my favorite month- Jane Austen July!! I can’t wait. I just bought Miss Austen and think I’ll also read Sanditon since I’ve not yet read. Have you seen the the mini series? I would also like to watch it, but after I read the book. Thanks Katie for the recommendations.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I have seen the miniseries . . . and didn't love it I'm afraid!

@miranda8598 4 года назад

Books and Things I think it’s not much of Jane Austen’s book left in the mini series. 😄

@misssavvyliterature5977 4 года назад

I still haven't read Mansfield Park it's her only work that I haven't read yet and I was waiting until JaneAustenJuly to read it. Can't wait!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

It's amazing!

@elenaalexa725 4 года назад

Sounds great! I think I have something for all the challenges on my TBR, so I'd love to join in :) By the way, have you ever seen The Cate Morland Chronicles? It's another youtube miniseries adapting Northanger Abbey, and I really loved it. I'd never heard of Northbound, but I'll watch it next month for sure, thanks for the recommendation! :)

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I haven't seen the Cate Moreland Chronicles, but I am curious to watch them! Northbound is great too.

@sarahel19 4 года назад

One of my favorite times of the year! I'm planning to read The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth and looking forward to discovering Jane Austen's favorite author. Regarding retellings of Persuasion I enjoyed Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange although it has been years since I read it. More recently I liked By the Book by Julia Sonneborn, in which the heroine is an English teacher who finds that her ex-fiancé has just become the president of her university. I need to rewatch Lost in Austen which I had found entertaining but a little weird. And I would like to finally watch Clueless although I'm not sure that it will be my cup of tea.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Ooo those both sound good - By the Book I must read! I highly recommend Clueless - it is amazing.

@miranda8598 4 года назад

Books and Things Where is the read alongs? Emma and P&P? Where can I participate??

@HamsavahiniVajraasthra 4 года назад

Namaste, and great video.Thanks a lot for the book recommendations. Would love to join Jane Austen July Challenge.😊👍👍👍👍

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks very much :)

@novellenovels 4 года назад

I got so excited seeing this. I’ve straight away picked a few books. Just read pride and prejudice so wont read that and stupid me already read and loved the other Bennet sister. Will join in reading Emma, I’m also reading persuasion again too. I will look for the screen adaptations

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

The Other Bennet Sister was so good, though!

@MegBookishRamblings 4 года назад

I've been meaning to read more of Jane Austen's books and hope I can join in. I recently bought a special edition of Persuasion which I'm eager to have. I couldn't resist recently buying two special editions of Pride and Prejudice which is still one of my favorites and probably will continue to be even after reading the other books though Persuasion will probably be up there as well. Might I suggest The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn? It's a story about two people who travel back to Jane's time in search of an unpublished novel and things don't go quite as expected. Also, I read a book called Searching For Captain Wentworth which is also about time travel in which the main character meets Jane and one of her brothers. Also looking forward to rewatching Pride and Prejudice as well as Sense and Sensibility, and Lost In Austen. I really enjoyed the Lizzie Bennett Diaries and even bought the book version of it. I'd like to eventually watch the other book adaptations but I've been waiting until I can read the books.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Ooo that sounds super fun! I do enjoy a bit of Time Travel.

@MegBookishRamblings 4 года назад

@@katiejlumsden I hope you'll enjoy them if you get a chance to read them! I keep meaning to read The Jane Austen Project but haven't gotten around to it yet.

@manilaboipai5190 4 года назад

I just started Emma and I read Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice previous month...they were all before I came to realise the wonderful society of Jane Austen and her world... I wanted to read all the books by women which are considered classics so I will be reading all the books of Brontë sisters and Jane Austen and then perhaps I will go to Virginia Woolf....I also watched Lizzie Bennet Diaries which I really loved and I watched it after reading P&P...will be watching Emma Approved after I complete Emma... Btw i have read Jane Eyre when I was in class Eight or nine which was five years or six years before...

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Hope you enjoy Emma and the others - Jane Austen is great!

@BookishTexan 4 года назад

I think I might have to limit my participation to movies this year. But maybe I can get to Sense and Sensibility

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

The films are pretty amazing though!

@anjakuemski 4 года назад

The book about Dickens by John Mullan is called The Artful Dickens, pub date is supposed to be in October. As for suggestions, perhaps a video about children in Jane Austen's novels?

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yes I know - so, so exciting for The Artful Dickens!

@books_and_ki 4 года назад

This is awesome! I was planning something similar for July with the SAME TWO BOOKS. I'm so glad for this challenge! Do we have to fulfill all the challenges to complete the Jane Austen challenge?

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Well, there are seven challenges, but the main one is just to read something by Jane Austen :)

@landscapesandbooks2973 4 года назад

I am really looking forward to this month event. I am planning to read 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Mansfield Park'. I am still considering reading 'Bridget Jone's Diary' for the 'Pride and Prejudice' retelling challenge. Would this be a quality read in your opinion and would you recommend this book?

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, I enjoyed Bridget Jones's Diary, and I think it's a good fun read. I'm not sure it's the best Pride and Prejudice adaptation - it's not that close an adaptation - but it's a good read.

@graceanderson1987 4 года назад

I have not read it yet, but I know that “For Darkness Shows the Stars” by Diana Peterfreund is a sci-fi space opera retelling of Persuasion

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

That sounds super fun!

@LiterallyJasmine 4 года назад

This time. THIS TIME I am ready. 😂

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

YAY

@jm15xy 4 года назад

Please say something about Catherine Austen Hubback's completion of The Watsons -- "The Younger Sister"

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

I haven't read it, but I'd be interested to - I love the start of The Watsons.

@malonenameable9620 4 года назад

I like the idea of Jane Austen month and would like to participate if I can. Just curious, is there a reason why it is not Jane Austen June? Anyway, thanks for all your videos and interesting comments. The Pickwick Papers brought me to your channel, your other summaries and impressions and your enthusiasm in general made me subscribe.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Thanks! So, I think when we were planning this, we wanted to do it either in December (the month Jane Austen was born) or July (the month where she died); we decided against December, because a lot of people are doing Christmas reading, so effectively it's in July because July is when the anniversary of Jane Austen's death is - but that's a bit morbid, so I don't tend to mention the reasoning!

@jairaugusto9289 4 года назад

here's my issue -- I've read three austen novels so far, and I'm going to read Persuasion for this challenge. but I'm afraid that if I pick up some non-fiction book about austen, I suppose I will spoil the story of the remaining two novels. usually I don't mind spoilers, but miss austen has been so special to me so far that the thought of a firsthand acquaintance with her characters' destinies by way of someone else's words gives me a most unusual pause. (I've been putting off reading an essay by gilbert ryle for precisely this reason) so maybe I will sorta skip this part of the challenge. :/

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, it is true that lots of Jane Austen critical non-fiction or biographies are a bit spoilery. You shouldn't read What Matters in Jane Austen until you've read all her work, certainly. But non-fiction about her time period should be same enough :)

@miranda8598 4 года назад

Oh, I just started to read Alexander McCall Smith’s ”Emma”. So far so Good. BUT I’ve only read Two charters so far. EnJOYed it, though. I DO like McCall Smith as an author otherwise. But then again, that’s his own Book ideas ...

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

It'll be interesting to see what you think of it - I really hated it! XD