Guessing Jane Austen books from their one star reviews. [CC]

[@spreadbookjoy]

I love your indignant and spirited defence of the trip to Derbyshire in P&P! Yes, I bet that person didn’t do well in their A Levels! 🤣I was so far behind Claudia on this I gave up on keeping score. Salute to the translating skills. So fun!

[@ellie698]

The trip to Derbyshire is essential to the plot. Talk about a turning point for all of the characters involved in it!!

[@spreadbookjoy]

@@ellie698 most definitely!

[@jenoakborn]

I wasn't scoring myself, but this was super fun!

[@Nickelini]

11:12 - You're right: Pride and Prejudice IS indeed the perfect novel. I do, however, like Mansfield Park a lot more than you do. But that's because I studied it at university and we dug deep and I had a great professor leading the way. If I'd read it on my own I wouldn't have liked it much

[@ginnieliebherr4245]

When he speaks Italian! Lol Also this was very entertaining! Love it

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Claudia, I didn't do very well. At the beginning I thought don't assume everyone knows where the pause button is LOL. Yes, I know the basics of my phone but editing is still like geometry was in high school. In other words I failed. I read to Jane Austen novels this July and I'm loving both of them. I read Pride and Prejudice with the group and loved loved it. I'm now reading Northanger Abbey and, after reading all the nonfiction about Jane Austen and knowing this was her first novel, I see the genius in her as a young woman. I I thought Mansfield Park was different than her other books but I have to say I enjoyed it. Fun video. Love and aloha

[@juliequick5526]

Even better than I thought it would be from the title! I scored appallingly there were options for most of the reviews. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it 🤓📚😂

[@Luminocite]

What a fun concept!

[@RoxieEE]

I got 14 right, 6 wrong, and my incorrect guesses all coincided with yours, Claudia. It's gratifying to know that others share my negative feelings about Mansfield Park! And agreed about the girl who read Pride and Prejudice for her A-levels, too! Minerva was a highlight, here, of course, too. My son had me rewinding to that part, over and over.

[@katieflaxbeard1019]

Adore you guys!! This was a complete blast thank you ❤️ always love your videos Claudia!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

This was fun. I haven't read Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility, I only got a few right.

[@hildureinarsdottir3208]

I got 12.. started really well but missed the Sense and sensibility ones and a few more 😆

[@AmberUnabridged]

I got 7 right. Maybe I'd have done better if I'd read Mansfield Park by now 😅 This was a lot of fun

[@coneil72]

This was an amazing concept and so well executed!! This should be a whole meme of Austen vids. Lots of fun.

[@hasteyebooks]

This was sooo fun! Great content haha I didn't keep track but I think I had very similar guesses as you - except this made me realise I don't remember Sense & Sensibility at all!

[@americanbookdragon]

I’ve only ever read Pride and Prejudice when I was like 16-17 years old. I got a huge annotated book on Emma that I plan to plow through though. I wouldn’t have been able to guess any of it.

[@kellynch]

I’m so sorry you don’t like Mansfield Park. I find the descriptions of Mrs. Norris to be laugh-out-loud funny. As for Fanny Price, a lot of people think that Fanny is a weakling. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fanny has a backbone of stainless steel; she risks losing everything that matters to her when she refuses to marry Henry. She is also a much better judge of character than more popular heroines such as Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse. Elizabeth and Emma could learn a lot from Fanny Price. I hated it when I was 18, but I re-read it at 40 and loved it.

[@lea-hr1rg]

Claudia! I've been devouring your channel over the past few days! 😃 Just a question, what happened to the Have a biscuit Potter podcast? I really enjoyed the first episodes but could not find the rest! If it is accessible somewhere, could you please let me know? Thank you🙏!

[@lesleybarklay798]

I got 14 correct (I was a bit confused at first, because I didn't realise you were doing them more than once).

[@deannascorner8112]

I literally saw this in my recommendations and thought “ooh this sounds fun!” 😆

[@asdabir]

Wait how many languages do you speak? Also what a fun idea this is. I though I did pretty well though I didn’t keep score

[@andreabauer4711]

I totally enjoyed this video. Is there anyone who doesn't put Pride and Prejudice first? There must be! I have just started watching your videos recently and they have inspired me to get active on Goodreads again. Most of my reading is nonfiction and political, but I know I will find some good recommendations for novels there. Have you ever read To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis? It's science fiction, which I know isn't your genre particularly, but it also happens to be the funniest book I have ever read. And there is a very important cat!

[@mariaquigley4563]

I loved this! I think I got 10. I haven't read Mansfield park but now I think I'll just skip it. 😂

[@teacupthestoryteller]

Loved this! 😂🥰

[@booknerdnova3151]

I've only read two of Austen's books (Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice), and then decided her books just weren't for me. Listening to these reviews I think I'm right about not bothering with the other books. This was a fun video to watch though. I knew the one about the father was not about P&P, because the father was the only fun character in that book, and the romance quote I thought fit both of them.

[@Sherlika_Gregori]

That was great fun. Thank you both.

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I got 12! Hampered by my not having read S&S - that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it, even though it only came up a couple of times! Great video. Minerva was fab as usual- my cat also loves climbing into paper bags! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

[@FullyBookedMelissa]

I got an abysmal 7 😆

[@TooFondofBooksJH]

This was great fun! I got 14/20.

[@monica_has116lentilsand2cats]

oh, that was sooo enjoyable! and i‘m totally counting this towards my „jane austen july“. shamefully, i got only 10 right. buuut, non-austenites saying: „not much action“, „people talking spit about people“, „people visiting people“, „people not working“ etc. is not much help, is it? and i‘m 💯 with you on the derbyshire trip! elizabeth sees darcy in an altogether new light. also, the wet shirt… please do more videos like this. and, husband + cat addition always make for an extra fun video. servus from tiny town austria, monica

[@Nina_DP]

That was a delight!

[@NadineTouzet]

Well, most of the negative comments were about Persuasion or Mansfield Park or Northanger Abbey 😂, so I just picked one more or less at random. I’ve just started Persuasion and like it so far, but I must say that Emma and Pride and Prejudice are my most favourite.

[@azdajajeanne]

Always wondered why a Welsh person sounds German. Figured I just had never heard a Welsh accent. But then Claudia understood a German review, so now I'm wondering again if Claudia _is_ German...

[@trekkiebeth]

You guys are so fun to watch! I got 10 questions right.

[@bookingthroughlife]

So much fun! Thanks

[@bookmouse2719]

You guys are funny, I did really badly myself on this. 😅😂🤣

[@ellie698]

13 out of 20. I got most of the ones wrong that you did but a couple right that you didn't. That was fun! Thanks, I like quizzes 😎

[@jessicashu982]

me too!

[@bumblebramblebranch]

I got 14/20 :) Elton goes to Bath in Emma, but we don’t see it (also I only remembered that because I watched the 2009 bbc miniseries yesterday). And Highbury isn’t close to Bath so they got that wrong, it’s close to London (Emma’s sister and Knightley’s brother don’t live far away from them which makes it all the weirder she hasn’t visited them. But she does go on the day trip to box hill which is close by and close to London too)

[@lesleybarklay798]

Yeah, I had it right at first, then changed my answer when I saw the Bath bit.

[@marysmith5003]

Doing well or poorly on this test is no judge of Austen knowledge because these one-star got so much wrong! Guessing what they were talking about was, as Charlotte Lucas might say, entirely a matter of chance.

[@EmoBearRights]

Emma is set nowhere near Bath - Highbury is in Surrey and had the reviewer done some effing research she could have googled Box Hill and discovered that.... badly done Lydia. Her reference to Bath threw me off. I did get P&P though.

[@elisemorfin2838]

More Bill, please !

[@RadellasReadingRoom]

OMG, the German! 😂

[@robynfromcanada]

Fun! 💜

[@valeantigot6390]

Hey, loved your contents, are you also in audea?

[@TheWordN3rd]

I kinda lost track, but I definitely got more than 9 wrong 😅

[@AbiofPellinor]

this was god damn hilarious

[@casual-books]

I didn't! I only got 4 right . hahah fun thouogh!

[@NadaOQ96]

I was doing very well but then the second half happened 🙃 I ended up with 12/20 😂😂

[@LittlePrairieLibrary]

I got 9 right!

[@mailill]

I really need to know, because I am nosey and I don't have a life, what is the relationship between Claudia and Bill?

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hello

[@bouquinsbooks]

I got 9/20. 😕

[@kyrie7007]

ᵖʳᵒᵐᵒˢᵐ 🌹

[@missioncardiac7599]

Hilarious! I almost certainly don't know more about Jane Austen than you but I did better than you in this, probably because i got more of the 50/50 answers right.