Jane Austen July TBR | 2024 #janeaustenjuly

In which I discuss what I'd like to read for Jane Austen July 2024....

*Jane Austen July Announcement Videos:*

*Channels Mentioned:*
Heather @freshparchment
Claire @Claire_Fenby

*Books Mentioned:*
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
-Sanditon and The Watsons by Jane Austen
-Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune How Younger Sons Made their Way in Jane Austen’s England by Rory Muir
-Jane Austen and the Clergy by Irene Collins
-Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson
-The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray (2nd book)
-The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray (1st book)
-The Unexpected Past of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright and Cass Grafton (sequel to The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen)
-Jane and the Unpleasantnesss at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron (first in series)
-Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
-Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull
-The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

*Things to Watch:*
-Scents and Sensibility
-From Prada to Nada

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Let's be friends!

[ArtBookshelfOdyssey]

I love The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen and its sequel.

[tahlia__nerds_out]

11:03 I love that adaptation of Sense & Sensibility… you are the only other person I’ve ever seen mention it.

[karengustafson]

‘Frederica” by Georgette Heyer is wonderful. I’ve read all her Regency romances. She’s a gifted writer with a great deal of wit.❤

[tahlia__nerds_out]

I don’t know why my first comment disappeared. Oh, well…
I enjoyed “Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune” last year; I seem to remember finding it slow at points, but I otherwise quite enjoyed it.
“Jane Austen and the Clergy” sounds very interesting… thanks for the recommendation. I found a copy for a really good price and look forward to it coming in.
My only plans right now for Jane Austen July (I have other booktube challenges I’m taking part in too) are to read “Northanger Abbey” and “In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen’s World” by John A. Dussinger. The latter is quite an intense read on Austen’s writing style, so I might get to read “Mansfield Park” again like I’d like.

[freshparchment]

I’m so excited for JAJ this year! If you read The Rivals, we have to watch Jack Absolute Flies Again afterwards (it resets the play among airmen and other manor house residents in the 1940s). I know that’s not your favorite time period, but it is brilliantly funny.

[bookingthroughlife]

I think that you will love the Stephanie Barrons series. I’m reading the 3rd book in that series as well as the 3rd book of Cludoa Gray’s series. Enjoy! ❤❤❤

[novellenovels]

Sooo many good books and I’m sooo excited. Can’t wait to start sense and sensibility

[katiejlumsden]

So exciting! 🎉 Glad you’re thinking of Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune and The Late Mrs Willoughby, too! You will have to tell me what you think of Georgette Heyer. I think you’ll like The Rivals.

[sarahel]

I'm very happy to see Sylvester on your TBR! I've read a few Georgette Heyers, and it's my favorite so far, I absolutely loved it. A great place to start with her novels I think. Frederica and Venetia are also very good. I'm also hoping to read a Sheridan play, probably A School for Scandal. I've had my eye on the Rory Muir, but I'd like to read his latest work first (Love and Marriage in the time of Jane Austen), hopefully this July.

[LaurieInTexas]

Like you, I enjoy microhistories and your options look fascinating. The adaptations look fun too. I know you will enjoy whatever you pick up.

[InfiniteText]

The non-fiction finds are so cool! I always find it amazing that something I would think there's not much to elaborate on is turned into a whole book and find there's a whole rabbit hole to go down and find out more and more. I'll keep tuned to see how you like the book about the young sons. That's a lot of new-to-me fiction as well. This is going to be such a great Jane Austen July!

[LedgerAndLace]

YAY!!! Someone asked me if Jane Austen July was a "real thing." I said, "Oh, it's REAL!" 🙂 And we Janeites around the world are here for it!

I've only read one book by Georgette Heyer, "The Convenient Marriage." Before I looked her up, I thought, "WOW, here's an author who knows her history AND writes so authentically in Jane Austen's style!" That's not as hard, since she was born in 1902. She's very funny, well-researched and her characters are smart, too. A bonus is that she explains a bit more about social customs, etc. of the time, which of course, Jane Austen didn't have to do. I think you'll enjoy her!

[kelleymcfadin]

I'm so excited to participate in my first Jane Austen July (I didn't hear about til August of last year). I love the read-alongs that we'll be doing! My non-fictions will be Miniatures & Morals by Peter Leithart & In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson. My modern books are The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray & Venetia by Georgette Heyer. My contemporary book is The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter. I also found a little 31 day Bible devotional titled Praying with Jane that seems cute and I'm going to read that as well.

[lindaklinedinst]

I hope that you will enjoy the books that you will be reading. I love Jan Austen but I have two Library Books to read and I am reading The Women by Kristin Hannah.

I only read one book at a time.

Take Care & Happy Reading

❤️🤗🔰☕️☀️🏡❤️

[PaulWatts-es]

This has been a really enjoyable experience this year. Hit all my targets. Then because I was ahead of myself moved onto Northanger Abbey, but in a way I hadn’t planned. I love it but many people are not that fussed. So I am doing an analytical approach using university lectures from on line, or analysis from learned professors. Really interesting

[jamesduggan]

Yes, I too have been in what's popularly known as a reading slump. Oh of course I do have a good excuse, as certainly you do too, but that's not that point, right? So, I'm working my way through Anne Sexton's Collected Poems, which can be startling in their confessions, keeping Brit Bennet's The Vanishing Half and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying in the background bc frankly they've been on the tbr way too long! So, unfortunately I really cannot participate this year, but I'm making plans for next year, thank you very much : )

[glendaslanina]

Good morning…..my local library has Rory Muir’s book on ebook. 👏🏻 even though I do not prefer ebooks, I think I will read this one. Thank you for the suggestion 🌸

[elizabethjonczyk]

You inspired me to track down a copy of Jane Austen and the Clergy, although, like, you, I'm not sure whether I will be in a mindset for that one or not.

[kevinrosero]

I love the 2008 Sense and Sensibility too. I'm rewatching it this month. I've reread the novel and gotten far more out of it than in my first reading. This is my first Jane Austen July; next year maybe I'll read Lady Susan but we'll see.

[kevinrussell-jpom]

BB/Marissa:
Glad to see you posting again; hope the little one is doing well.

It might be informative to the fans of your three sites to hear how Jane Austen July was kicked off by you, the Spinster, and Katie. Did one of you have the idea and floated it by the other two or did you have a discussion on how to gin up more interest in JA? You are audibly American, whereas Katie is a Brit and Claudia is Italian-German who is married to a Brit. Did you all meet through YouTube?

Your suggestions for book-reads are all good. I read Rory Muir's biography of The Duke (he was a second son who had to find his way through the Army), who became a much bigger fish than his once-famous older brother.
You simply can't pluck JA out of context; the Napoleonic Wars, the Navy, and the struggle with France was the whole political underpinning to Jane's "fictional" world.
Thus I would consider Patrick O'Brian (author of the Master and Commander books and a GREAT admirer of Jane) to also be acceptable fodder for July's activities.