July Reading Wrap Up | Jane Austen July and more

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#JaneAustenJuly
In which I talk about what I read in July . . .
(Sorry that some of this is a bit out of focus. My camera was not enjoying the sunshine.)
Catch up on Jane Austen July: • Jane Austen July Annou...
--Things Mentioned--
Sense and Sensibility (2008): www.imdb.com/title/tt0847150/
From Mansfield With Love: • Dear Will... - No.1
Book to Screen - Sense and Sensibility (2008): • Book to Screen | Sense...
Jane Austen July reading vlog: • Video
--Books Mentioned--
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen: / 50398.northanger_abbey
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen: / 14935.sense_and_sensib...
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen: / 45032.mansfield_park
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen: / 1885.pride_and_prejudice
The Beautifull Cassandra, Jane Austen: / the-beautifull-cassandra
Jane Austen juvenilia: / sanditon-lady-susan-th...
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England, Roy and Lesley Adkins: / eavesdropping-on-jane-...
Marriage, Susan Ferrier: / 514575.marriage
Unequal Affections, Lara Ormiston: / unequal-affections
Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Muri: / tokyo-ueno-station
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro: / 28922.an_artist_of_the...
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Kate Morton: / the-clockmaker-s-daughter
My Man, Jeeves, P.G. Woodhouse: / 200572.my_man_jeeves
The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie: / 639787.the_murder_on_t...
--General links--
My website: www.katielumsden.co.uk
Facebook: / justbooksandthings
Twitter: / katiejlumsden
Instragram: / katiejlumsden
Goodreads: / katie-lumsden
NaNoWriMo: nanowrimo.org/participants/kat...
Foyles Affiliate link: www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmi...
Email: katie.booksandthings@gmail.com

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1 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 48

@Beril_. 5 лет назад

I always love the wide selection of books you read and hearing about your thoughts!

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Thanks :)

@josielacey8372 5 лет назад

Unequal Affections sounds so intriguing!

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

It was great!

@LuminousLibro 5 лет назад

I adore Jeeves books! They are so funny. But my favorite Wodehouse book is Mike at Wrykyn.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I'll have to read that one too!

@charlenesims9063 5 лет назад

I am reading Evalina and almost half way through it. i really love how Frances Burney puts in a lot of emotion with the charcters. i feel like slapping Sir Clement sometimes,and i really feel for Evalina and how she is trying to enjoy herself but always has someone bothering her. Madame Duval is a love hate charater for me,but i really enjoying the book. and cannot wait to read more of her books.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I quite enjoyed Evelina, but didn't find the characters quite as well-developed as Jane Austen's books. I'm glad you're enjoying it though!

@charlenesims9063 5 лет назад

@@katiejlumsden true very true! i am trying to read other authors besides jane austen. i am still waiting for north and south,and what matters to jane austen from my library. hope it's soon!

@novellenovels 5 лет назад

I loved taking part in Jane Austen July and starting on her properly.. Oh I have the Kate Morton book and need to read it so your review is pushing it up my tbr. You read so much wow!!

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I really do recommend it!

@bellathereader1328 5 лет назад

Thank you for hosting Jane Austen July! I re-read Northanger Abbey and then did some research into Gothic horror literature, including reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, (which was great fun!!). On the non-fiction side I read The Jane Austen Diet, which is a well researched, yet easy to read book on diet and health during the time period of Jane Austen.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Sounds like you had a good reading month :)

@genresandjournals 5 лет назад

Thanks so much for hosting Jane Austen July! I had so much fun completing the challenges. The only one I didn’t fulfill was to read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen. I am already looking forward to next year! And I am super excited for Victober!

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Me too - I'm already so excited for Victober :)

@RaineyDayReads 5 лет назад

I loved Jane Austen July! I delved more into Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park than I ever did before and loved them both so much! Henry Tilney might be up there with my favorite Jane Austen men.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

@meghanthestorygirl4581 5 лет назад

Unequaled Affections sounds so good! I'm going to read it next year for Jane Austen July.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

It is really good!

@mcrbus94 5 лет назад

That Victober mention got me very excited! I tried the Rosamund Pike Pride and Prejudice this time and loved it so much so I really want to try her Sense and Sensibility audiobook too. I loved reading about Fanny Price, I found her a fascinating character. I struggled a lot with Edmund in it though, he was just so flat for me unfortunately. Great video :)

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I liked Edmund much more on this reread, but it has taken me many rereads XD Fanny Price is amazing though. I adore her. And yes, the Sense and Sensibility audiobook is fantastic too!

@mcrbus94 5 лет назад

Fanny is definitely up there with some of my favourite Austen characters. Maybe I'll warm to Edmund after a few rereads then (though I imagine it'd take a lot haha)

@TheWordN3rd 5 лет назад

I did a Mini JAJ. I reread Sense & Sensibility and loved it again and then I picked up Unequal Affections. I though the beginning was a b6ut abrupt on that one, but I really like how Lizzie and Darcy managed to have the same character arcs as in the original, but with different plot points. I was a bit annoyed at how they changed one thing because I like the way it affected Lizzie and Darcy's relationship in P&P better, but it still worked in the end.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I'm glad you enjoyed Unequal Affections - I do think there were a few things I'd rework about the beginning if I were its editor, but the bulk of it I loved!

@TheWordN3rd 5 лет назад

@@katiejlumsden Agreed. Even as someone who's read P&P multiple times the beginning was a bit abrupt for me. I felt like I needed to go read the first half of the novel first.

@snowyskylar8821 5 лет назад

15 books!!! Heavens...I read 5.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

That's still a pretty good month :)

@BeatrixOnyx 5 лет назад

Have you read anything by Franny Burney? I find the books I have read by her really funny. Eavesdropping in Jane Austen's England is such an easy and accessible book. It's one I always recommend to people who want to learn about the period. The use of primary sources are excellent.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I've read Evelina, which I quite liked but didn't love. Jane Austen's England was great!

@nightmotherasmr 5 лет назад

I'd love to hear what you think about The Unconsoled! It's kind of a love or hate book for a lot if people, because it's quite surreal (I'm one of the ones who loved it).

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

I'm sure I'll finally get to it soon!

@lifefullofwords 5 лет назад

I agree that Austen exceeds all of her contemporaries but I think Lawrence Sterne was a gifted novelist, though of course he wrote much earlier than Austen. He’s so funny! And I do think his protagonists are interesting, although really he’s always writing about himself. But obviously he’s so very different from Austen so it’s hard to compare them.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Yes, I have heard some book things about him! I ought to try to read some books by him.

@lifefullofwords 5 лет назад

Books and Things If you do decide to read something by him I recommend you start with A Sentimental Journey, it’s not too long and it shows Sterne’s full range.

@judegrindvoll8467 4 года назад

Hi Katie - silly question but could you tell me name of the Austen editions? They’re gorgeous but haven’t seen them to buy anywhere.

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

So, they're the Pan Macmillan Collector's Library editions. Sadly these exact editions aren't in print anymore. The new ones are the same size but the covers aren't stripey.

@judegrindvoll8467 4 года назад

Books and Things Aww that’s such a shame - I suffer serious library envy every time I see your collection!

@felixarquer7732 5 лет назад

I think Moll Flanders (published in 1722) is, especially in its first chapters, a really compelling portrait of a woman’s psychological conflicts.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Perhaps that's one I ought to pick up!

@rachelport3723 5 лет назад

You found more to like about Marriage than I did. The writing style was stilted, there was no character growth for anyone and with no character growth there's not much story. Even the exaggerated Scottish characters grow boring after a while. I'm surprised I got through it, actually. Bonnets at Dawn had a read-along of Mansfield Park last month, and some of the discussions on Facebook have been so intense. They have had some very interesting guests on the podcast as well.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Yeah, I found Marriage sort of interesting, but the characters were quite flat!

@SunriseFireberry 5 лет назад

10K is coming. Liveshow?

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

Nah, I doubt I'll ever be doing a liveshow on my own. I'd do another one with people like for Victober maybe, but I can't string a sentence together without editing enough to do a liveshow on my own.

@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan 5 лет назад

The usual good video. One word is mispronounced eight times in under two minutes.

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

. . . Which word? I'm absolutely terrible at sounding out words from spelling - I have no phonetic understanding at all - so sometimes if I've never heard a word before I struggle to work out how to say it.

@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan 5 лет назад

@@katiejlumsden Juvenilia. You can listen on one of those online dictionaries if you've not heard it spoken before. That's what I do with a word like "epergne" and so on, because I also read a lot of old books.

@a.g.2790 5 лет назад

I am REALLY TRYING to listen but you talk SOOOO FAST. 😣 Love the idea of Jane Austen July.💕

@katiejlumsden 5 лет назад

If you go to the settings in the corner of the video, you can slow it down to .75x speed. Sorry, I promise I can't help it - I try really, really hard to talk slowly in my videos.