Jane Austen July TBR

[@jkatew]

This will be my first time reading Sense and Sensibility. I am 71 and my fourth Jane Austen July! Never too late ❤

[@HannahsBooks]

How wonderful! No-definitely not too late! I am so looking forward to hearing all about your experience reading it!

[@jkatew]

@@HannahsBooks 🌻💕🌻

[@LiterateTexan]

I wasn't originally planning to participate in this event, but after this video, I might change my priorities in July. This was really great.

[@HannahsBooks]

How wonderful! I can’t wait to see what you choose to read!

[@novelideea]

I am hoping to pick up DW’s Grassmere as well. Jane and Dorothy sounds fascinating, indeed! I hope your JAJ is wonderful! 🤗

[@HannahsBooks]

@@novelideea Wonderful! I am looking forward to what you’ll have to say!

[@shirley244]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you, Shirley! I was completely unaware of the Eastbourne book until your recommendation!

[@barbarahelgaker390]

Great list - and I am definitely going for the Jane Austen Remedy as well as Sense and Sensibility. I like the series with Hattie Morahan best

[@HannahsBooks]

Oh excellent! I can’t wait to hear more about what you think of the books!

[@awebofstories]

Great books! Charlotte at Coynie Reads has been raving about Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you for letting me know! I love Charlotte’s channel, but I am so behind on booktube that I missed her conversations. Off to look them up!

[@Nina_DP]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@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!

[@JamesRuchala]

I was thinking I'd reread Persuasion, but maybe I'm getting persuaded to switch.

[@HannahsBooks]

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.

[@insearchofwonder]

I love Georgette Heyer. Oh and Austen, of course, but that goes without saying. 😂

[@HannahsBooks]

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!

[@lizh9497]

I enjoyed The Jane Austen Remedy. I hope you do too. I’ll be reading Emma this year. It’s the last of Austen’s novels I have left to read.

[@HannahsBooks]

Emma is one of my very favorites! I can’t wait to hear what you think about it!

[@LaurieInTexas]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

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!

[@karlalikestoread]

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!

[@HannahsBooks]

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!)

[@karlalikestoread]

@@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 😉

[@HannahsBooks]

@karlalikestoread I am so pleased and flattered!

[@myszuna9821]

Oh my, this annotated edition looks sublime! I had no idea those existed. Thank you so much for sharing and all the best for Jane Austen July!

[@HannahsBooks]

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.)

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

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. 😊

[@HannahsBooks]

Ooh, I would love to hear what you think of Jane and Dorothy if you read it. And I can’t wait for your Jane Austen video!

[@bradykelso8682]

I need to reread Sense and Sensibility. It’s been decades. I’ll look for annotated version. All the best to you, Hannah! 🌹

[@HannahsBooks]

I love S&S! I hope you will pick it up again soon. I’m eager to hear what you think about it this time around!

[@clarepotter7584]

'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! 😆

[@HannahsBooks]

@@clarepotter7584 Ha! I mentioned it only in a TBR! But I have just read it and it is light and cute. I’ll try to talk about it soon!

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 In general, I’m not a fan of retellings either. What I really want is more Austen!

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

@@HannahsBooks exactly!

[@TKTalksBooks]

You have inspired me. Thank you! 😊

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you so much! I hope you will be participating!

[@chambersstevens3135]

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?

[@HannahsBooks]

@@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?

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@GinaStanyerBooks The prompts and plans are often so much fun to play with, even when we don’t actually read the books!

[@denisadellinger4543]

You will love The Grand Sophie. I read it last year.

[@HannahsBooks]

Thank you so much! It sounds absolutely charming!

[@readandre-read]

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!

[@HannahsBooks]

You, too! It is so funny to me that summer is now so clearly for Austen and autumn for Victorian lit. That wasn’t true for me before booktube!

[@clarepotter7584]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@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.

[@clarepotter7584]

@@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.

[@marciajohansson769]

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!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@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!

[@sandrahollins3520]

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!

[@HannahsBooks]

@@sandrahollins3520 Oh wonderful! I hope you enjoy Emma as much as I do!

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

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.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@battybibliophile-Clare Which book are you referring to?

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

@@HannahsBooks sorry, the annotated Sense and Sensibility.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@battybibliophile-Clare Ah! Anchor Books, annotated by David M. Shapard

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

@@HannahsBooks thanks Hannah, I shall order it immediately.

[@HannahsBooks]

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