Febregency Jane Austen Era Readathon 2024 | Announcement & Challenges

[@blane1814]

Starting febregency with Sense and sensibility

[@darrylfriesen]

For this years’s FebRegency, I’m tackling Jane Austen’s favourite novel (or one of them, depending on your source!), The History of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson! All 1600 pages of it!!

[@BookishPrincess]

Ohh I love that pick!! I've read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, but I'd really like to try Sir Charles Grandison someday. Richardson definitely takes stamina!

[@darrylfriesen]

@@BookishPrincess Yep, it’s a commitment all right!! Just looking at its size is daunting-so I’m committing to only one FebRegency selection this year, in light of it!!

[@fortheloveof4]

I’m hoping to take part in the Google meet activity. This whole read along sounds so fun.

[@heatherpickle]

I am looking forward to another Febregency! I am also doing the Jane Austen deep dive ral, so hopefully there will be some overlap. ❤

[@ismene6546]

This is exciting! I’ll have to make some plans to celebrate Febreagency. These are great ideas! Happy Reading!

[@kitcar668]

I'm really looking forward to taking part in Febregency, I discovered Georgette Heyer in 2023 😍

[@insearchofwonder]

Yay Febregency, my favorite readathon!!! I cannot wait. I plan to reread Mansfield Park, the last Austen novel current rereading of her works. I also have a couple books I picked up last year that are other author's attempts to finish her incomplete works (The Watsons is one of them, I don't remember the other). Other than that, I was waiting for the prompts to decide, so now I will start thinking and deciding what else I will do. I don't think I will join in the group read, only because I read Belinda a few years ago and am not ready for a reread yet. But I might pick up another Maria Edgeworth.

[@miriamelizabethreads]

This is so exciting! I'm definitely focusing on mood reading this year but I do want to read some regency romances in February! I'm so looking forward to the readathon and seeing what others decide to pick up.

[@theresas709]

Some of my choices are: The Monk which I think just makes it in and on the other end The Pickwick Papers. Also have The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney which would not all be in that time period. Set in that time would be Mary Barton or The Trumpet-Major. These are just what is available to me. Just discovered that Mary Barton is set just after the period. Oh well. 😊

[@amandalavelle2638]

Ah this is just what January needs- an opportunity to plan our Febregency TBR’s. I read Belinda in 2023 and it was one of my favourite reads of the year so I don’t think I’ll re-read quite so soon but I’ll probably pick up another of her works instead xx

[@BorderCollieInALibrary]

Yay for Febregency! I found an audiobook of Ivanhoe narrated by David Rintoul, who played Mr. Darcy in the 1980 adaptation. I took it as a sign for me to pick it up as a new to me author. The narration is amazing.

[@BookishPrincess]

Ohh I had no idea Mr. Darcy narrated Ivanhoe, that sounds fabulous!

[@jgatsby22]

Just downloaded my copy of Belinda to my kindle! Can’t wait to read it!!

[@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace]

Ahhh this announcement is so perfect! Your outfit and hair 😍 Faith has been talking about the Horatio Hornblower series; I might pick it up as well 👀

[@BookishPrincess]

Aww thanks Christy!!

[@marilyn_aguasamargas]

Oh!! What was Mary Shelley's travelogue? I am reading Frankenstein right now and am looking for some of her journals to supplement.

[@BookishPrincess]

It's called History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland - I think you can find it on Project Gutenberg!

[@GinaBlythe]

They are in storage, but I have all my great-grandfather's Horatio Hornblower books. They are all, I believe, first edition, so a trip to storage is a must! 😊

[@BookishPrincess]

I love it, it's always such a blast to dig old books out of storage!!

[@gerridauer9092]

I’ve never been a Regency or romance reader but started reading Georgette Heyer last year. I’m definitely ready for another one. They’ve all been good so far and Frederica is my favorite of the ones I have read. What’s your favorite? I’m thinking of reading either These Old Shades or The Grand Sophie next.

[@BookishPrincess]

I remember enjoying The Grand Sophie, it's been awhile since I last read Heyer, I need to pick her up again!

[@heatherpickle]

I am a HUGE Georgette Heyer fan. I love both of these. The Grand Sophy is absolutely hilarious and These Old Shades is a hit dark. It's also the first book in a trilogy.

[@BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu]

I discovered Georgette Heyer in the Seventies and I’ve reread all of them dozens of times. I think my favorite is Cotillion. I loved Frederica also and The Grand Sophy is fun. Bath Tangle is good and The Quiet Gentleman is wonderful, as is The Unknown Ajax. Read all of them you can find, is my advice! I’m going to read Belinda for Febregency, which I just discovered a few minutes ago! I’m going to check and see whether The Way of All Flesh falls in the category or is actually Victorian. This is fun!

[@MarcelaChandía]

My favourite authors of Regency Romance are Mary Balogh and Stephanie Laurens. For this year's Febregency I plan to read Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal and some poetry of the Romantics Poets. By the way, you look so beautiful in that Regency-inspired outfit 😉

[@BookishPrincess]

Aww thanks! Dorothy Wordsworth's journal is so much fun!

[@Ms.SpookyNerd]

Happy new year 🎉📚☕🎊

[@BookishPrincess]

Happy New Year!

[@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace]

You were so prepared for Tristan's prompt 🤣🤣 Love it!

[@BookishPrincess]

It's such a great prompt, Regency pasttimes are the best! 😄

[@albert-likes-alice]

Hi, Emma, i'm your watcher from Ukraine. Would like to see your opinion about book of Oles Berdnyk "Apostle of Immortality" (as i know, it's the only english-translated Berdnyk book). That book is for free in PDF in internet. Oles Berdnyk was a soviet-times ukrainian sci-fi writer.

[@clarepotter7584]

I loved reading Anne of Swansea's 'Cambrian Pictures' last February. She was a totally different class strata from Austen. Sentimental at times, mocking at others, very dramatic.

[@BookishPrincess]

Ohh sounds fascinating!

[@msrichardsreads]

I am so excited for this!!

[@BookishPrincess]

Can't wait!! 😄✨