Thank you for reminding readers that they can never read too much Jane Austen! Her writings are wonderful. I wish there were more novels from her pen! Although not quite JA, Hamerston Hall by Jane Eastbourne is quite good.
I’m looking forward to Jane Austen July too! It’s such a fun event. I loved seeing your picks. I never manage to do many prompts but I enjoy it regardless. The Jane Austen Remedy sounds so interesting.
I do love heavily annotated versions of books I love! (Not Austen, but at some point, I want to read the Annotated Little Women. I’ve poked through it a lot, but not read straight through.)
Hi Hannah! A great TBR! We seem to share the same taste for specific book editions. ☺️ I’ll also be doing Jane Austen July and hope to post a video next week. Happy Reading! Ps. The Jane/Dorothy book looks interesting. I’ve added it to my TBR. 😊
I am also selecting Sense and Sensibility this year. It's been several years since my last time reading it. I'm excited! The Love and Marriage book sounds very interesting; I'll be interested to hear more about that. Have fun reading all the Austenish things!
I’m so glad to hear you love Heyer! I noticed that you did a recent tag with all Austen answers! I’m behind on booktube, but it is in my watch-later list!
I am really interested in Jane and Dorothy. I just this past April (National Poetry Month) discovered that Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" was heavily … inspired, shall we say? … by an entry in his sister's diary. His wife also apparently wrote a couple of the lines. I guess it takes a village to write a poem. Plus, why exactly was he reading his sister's diary? Brothers!! Great video, Hannah.
@@Nina_DP Ha! I love the thought that WW was illicitly poring through her diary! My understanding is that she was writing it partly with that intention-but I hope I will learn more next month!
I am excited about JAJ as well. Everyone's nonfiction options look so interesting. I am eager to see the wrap-ups afterward to hear thoughts on these books. I haven't read Georgette Heyer either and may try to squeeze one of her books in if I can. But mostly I'm excited about rereading Sense and Sensibility.
Me too! I reread S&S fairly recently-3 years ago? But things have been busy and intense around here lately and I don’t have much memory of what I thought then. I can’t wait for July!
Persuasion is wonderful! There will be a lot of folks talking about S&S and you might enjoy being part of that conversation, but with any of the major Austen novels, you can’t go wrong. Persuasion is about slightly more mature love, which is quite interesting.
I reread Sense and Sensibility last year so this year I’m rereading Pride and Prejudice. It’s funny I think the first time I read S&S I strongly sided and agreed with Elinor and thought the moral message was to be more like her, but this time I felt more compassionate and understanding of both sisters and felt that the book is saying neither one is entirely right. You’re strongly making me consider picking up annotated editions of all of Austen's books 😍 The Jane Austen Remedy sounds wonderful!
You are so right! Compassion for both-yes indeed. And neither one really is all sense or all sensibility, are they? I definitely identify with Elinor in basic temperament; she’s clearly an oldest child, isn’t she?! But that doesn’t mean she’s right! (And thank you so much for the recent mention! I will get back to you soon!)
@@HannahsBooks Omg that makes so much sense, an oldest child, which I am too! That’s why I like her. And no worries, no rush, and no pressure to watch either. I know I must be bombarding you with notifications I’ve just been loving your videos and been positively influenced 😉
A wonderful and full plan. I need to note the Rory Muir for next year. By the Book sounds sweet. I struggle with retellings but a modern one may be a better bet. Since making my JAJ plan I have heard there is a modern day Mansfield Park retelling coming out mid July. If I have time I might try it.
'By the Book' has just arrived, I've taken this a recommendation from this video. I'll let you know if I like it and not hold you responsible if I don't! 😆
Hannah you are fantastic. I fell smarter just watching your video. So many good ideas. I am reading The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain by Jan Mortimer. Have you read it?
@@chambersstevens3135 What a kind comment! Thank you. I haven’t read Mortimer. What do you think of it so far? How does it compare to the work of Ruth Goodman, if you’ve read her?
Quite a few on this list I haven't heard of. Thanks. I didn't get on with Heyer, though her research is beautiful but for me, she's a bit dated, oddly in a way that Austen isn't.
@@clarepotter7584 I’ve been a bit nervous about exactly that issue after reading a brief excerpt of an antisemitic passage. I’m trying to figure out why I sometimes have an easy time enjoying “problematic” material and putting it in its context but at other times struggle to do so.
@@HannahsBooks I think I go with tone rather than content. I read 'Mr Skeffington' by Von Arnim and some of that doesn't hold up to modern ideology. If I was Afro/ Carribean would I be more offended by the rep of the colonised people? Probably, however she was using an inappropriate trope of non white natives to mock the ex colonial white governor (not right but the joke's on him). Mr Skeffington is a very rich Jewish man, so could be seen as an uncomfortable trope (my British Jewish ancestors are, I think, no richer than my British Christian ancestors) - but she's clearly absolutely anti Nazi, which in '41 is enlightened and sympathetic towards him.
yup. Almost 66 years old and I have never read a Jane Austen novel. No time like the present to jump in. Not sure which one is best to start with. Any suggestions for a beginner? It seems silly to read a retelling when I am not well versed in the originals but Polite Society by Mahesh Rao sounds fun. Thanks Hannah!
@@marciajohansson769 Oh you are in for a treat! Pride and Prejudice is a perfect starting point-but Emma would be a great start, too, to prepare for Polite Society! How exciting. I can’t wait to hear about your experience!
I read my first Jane Austen at 66 too! Sense & Sensibility. I am 69 now, and this year will read Emma, my 4th. Can't wait. I hope you enjoy whichever of Jane Austen's novels you decide to try first!
A lovely video, Hannah, but you didn't mention the imprint. If you could, it would be helpful, because I can't identify it. UK Jackets are often different, so that wasnt a help. I bought Jane and Dorothy straight away. I like stories about spiky young women too, I wonder why that is, giggle.
