Jane Austen July TBR/Pile of Possibilities

In which I talk about my plans for Jane Austen July . . .
Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon all about Jane Austen.
My announcement video: • Jane Austen July 2024 ...
My co-host, Marissa, ‪@BlatantlyBookish‬: • Jane Austen July Annou...
My co-host, Claudia ‪@SpinstersLibrary‬: • Jane Austen July 2024 ...
Goodreads Group: / jane-austen-july-2024
The Challenges
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (ie, published between 1775-1817)
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book
Readalong Schedules
Sense and Sensibility, 50 chapters, 3 chapters a day:
1 July: S&S chapters 1, 2, 3
2: 4, 5, 6
3: 7, 8, 9
4: 10, 11, 12
5: 13, 14, 15
6: 16, 17, 18
7: 19, 20, 21
8: 22, 23, 24
9: 25, 26, 27
10: 28, 29, 30
11: 31, 32, 33
12: 34, 35, 36
13: 37, 38, 39
14: 40, 41, 42
15: 43, 44, 45, 46
16: 47, 48, 49, 50
Sanditon, 12 chapters, 2 chapters a day
17 July: Sanditon chapters 1, 2
18: 3, 4
19: 5, 6
20: 7, 8
21: 9, 10
22: 11, 12
The Watsons, at your own pace
From 23 to 31sJuly
Books Mentioned
The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, Katie Lumsden (me): / 195269275
Sense and Sensibility: tinyurl.com/yc4ssnyv
Emma: tinyurl.com/y977tgxs
Sanditon: tinyurl.com/n3e3r5jv
The Watsons: tinyurl.com/unhv2wdy
The Regency revolution, Robert Morrison: / 44890947
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, Rory Muir: / 44174523
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple: / 42972023
The Year in Between, Christina Morland: / 56810991
Mrs Wickham, Sarah Page: / 62337424
The Late Mrs Willoughby, Claudia Gray: / 62926935
Emmett, L.C. Rosen: / 103455031
This Motherless Land, Nikki May: / 199531828
A Lady’s Guide to Scandal, Sophie Irwin: / 63018956
More about my Patreon Book Club: • Channel Update | Q&A, ...
/ membership
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries, J.T. Williams: / 61168643
Self-Control, Mary Brunton: / 514571 .
Tilly’s Shelf video: • Private Space in Self ...
A Trip to Scarborough, Sheridan: / 2154464 .
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: / 606346 .
Adaptations Mentioned
Sense and Sensibility (2008): tinyurl.com/49224yw7
Sense and Sensibility (2024): www.imdb.com/title/tt31068365
Scents and Sensibility (2011): www.imdb.com/title/tt1600438/
From Prada to Nada (2011): www.imdb.com/title/tt0893412/
Elinor and Marianne Take Barton: tinyurl.com/57jfkw7e
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: tinyurl.com/y72qe9be
My Novels
The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst
Bookshop.org (UK affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/11499/97802...
Waterstones (UK): tinyurl.com/2j9kd6ue
Amazon (UK): tinyurl.com/39hmtjc8
Blackwells (best for international): tinyurl.com/4wyz67m9
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/y26djm78
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
Bookshop.org (UK affiliate link): uk.bookshop.org/a/11499/97814...
Waterstones (UK): tinyurl.com/49ettwhx
Amazon (UK): tinyurl.com/yc8ru72c
US order links: bit.ly/HartwoodHallUS
Canada order links: bit.ly/HartwoodHallCAN
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/59udykwz
Ways to Support My Channel
1. Subscribe and keep watching my videos!
2. Support me on Patreon: tinyurl.com/yb499ftp
3. Give me a tip with SuperThanks (the button to the right beneath the video)
4. Buy my novels or take them out of the library
5. Buy something with one of my affiliate links:
-Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/katiejlu...
-Bruu Tea: www.bruutea.co.uk/?sca_ref=39...
General Links
My website: tinyurl.com/4chp97bn
Patreon: tinyurl.com/yb499ftp
X: x.com/katiejlumsden
Instagram: tinyurl.com/39jahuv6
Threads: tinyurl.com/4hbz4dec
Facebook: tinyurl.com/48aww5s5
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/mtf34uvf
Email: [e-mail]

[@LedgerAndLace]

Thanks, Katie! I will now refer to my TBR AS POP: Pile of Possibilities. Very much looking forward to July, and as always, you add to my POP. 🙂

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you Katie!

[@larrymilliken288]

Dear Katie, I’ve been away from my computer for 3 weeks on a road trip, so I have a lot of catching up to do regarding your earlier videos, which I promise to watch. As ever you have done a fabulous job suggesting things for Jane Austen July!

[@jorjastonej]

Whoot! Pre-ordered yr new book today. Can’t wait! For JAJ I’ll only have time for one read. So many great choices. Thx for sharing your JAJ TBR

[@bgreer6584]

Congratulations on your second novel release!

[@playsintraffic2]

I admit to getting a jumpstart because I wanted to re-read all her novels plus some of the other fun things surrounding Jane. So far I've read: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice and I'm working on Northanger Abbey.

[@InfiniteText]

"The last person to take this out of the library...was me....last year" I love it! I really want to read The Anarchy, I've been looking for a book on the East India Trading Company for a while.

[@prairierose1115]

Thanks Katie!

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

I’ll definitely be participating in JaneAustenJuly and hopefully will post a video next week. The Anarchy book looks interesting-I may check that out! I love Mansfield Park and the related book sounds fascinating.

[@KierTheScrivener]

I pre-started my JAJ reading too, I read Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility because I was excited! I'm so excited for Motherless Land! I love Mansfield Park and love that it's getting a retelling.

[@BlatantlyBookish]

Hooray for Jane Austen July!!! I am planning a library trip after work tomorrow in its honor and then I probably won't be able to help myself from starting early! 💕

[@novellenovels]

I’m 100% in and have Belinda on my massive Tbr. Sooo excited 🎉🎉

[@lindaklinedinst9236]

Hi Katie I hope that you will be able to get to all the books you want to read in July. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗🔰☀️☕️🏡❤️

[@LedgerAndLace]

P.S. Forgot to mention: "A Lady's Guide to Scandal" was FUN! It was a fresh take on the era, while remaining historically accurate. I also really liked the one Georgette Heyer book I read, "A Convenient Marriage." She's very funny and was meticulous in her research (according to Wikipedia)! ;-)

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

I'm so glad you mentioned the Nikki May book. This year my novel to reread has cycled back to Mansfield Park so this would be perfect. If only I hadn't just uoloaded and scheduled my TBR video 😂

[@MRDEREVKO]

Urgh Mansfield Park, buy some Gin 🤣

[@kompas29]

Looking forward to your opinion about Gentlemen of uncertain fortune. Read it couple of years ago and find it an interesting social history read. It also turned me to thinking about the life stories of JA' brothers , especially Henry Austen.

[@AaronReadABook]

I'm re-reading Emma too and probably What Matters In Jane Austen. I think I might watch the TV adaptation of Sense & Sensibility too. I have another East India Company book which is blurbed by Dalrymple which I bought for historathon so I might throw that in too!

[@acratone8300]

I'll just comment what my favorite Jane Austen TV series: Emma starring Romola Garai (2009). Screenplay by Sandy Welch ! Really balanced and nuanced.

[@jamiedianne6778]

The new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was done by the Hallmark Channel, I guarantee it was low budget and is probably somewhat cheesy but you never know! 😆

[@taaptee]

I used to follow this series years ago, so glad to be back after so much in life has happened ❤️

[@andreabauer4711]

I am trying to expand my reading habits (which mostly tend to political nonfiction, science fiction, and Jane Austen -- odd, I know) so I think one of my choices will be a play. I am considering Richard Sheridan's School for Scandal.

[@dqan7372]

Went to order Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune only to realize I already owned it, so Anarchy it is.

[@ElliesCozyChronicles]

What an exciting month!! Congratulations Katie!!💐 I listened to the late Mrs Willoughby last Jane Austen July and loved it! The narrator is excellent!

[@launchedathousand]

I have all the Austen novels narrated by Juliet Stevenson and I love them. I sadly kinda feel like I'm slightly burned out by Austen this year so I'm only planning on reading an annotated Persuasion and a couple historical/retellings that I've been interested in for a few years but hadn't gotten to yet.

[@tourdumondelitteraire]

I will be reading Emma since it's one of the only Jane Austen I've only read once! Then I'll read Sanditon, I read the Watsons last year... My other plans are : Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, Jane Austen at Home (continuing this one) by Lucy Worsley, Continuing The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Reputation by Lex Croucher and finally Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James! I've heard Death Comes to Pelberley is not the best, but it's been on my TBR for years so I might just give it a shot so I can finally clear it hahaha Have a great Jane Austen July to eveyone who participates!

[@LouiseReader]

I've started my JAJ a little early and have started the audiobook of a recent Australian YA retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Stuck Up & Stupid by actor Angourie Rice and her playwright mother Kate Rice. It's quite fun so far. I think it's going to be a Sydney/LA setting. I also have a devastatingly gorgeous book called Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson. Sense and Sensibility is the only one of the big 6 that I haven't read, so I need to get it done. Suspect I'll be off to the Rosamund Pike audiobook.

[@queenvictoria4237]

So excited for this

[@denisadellinger4543]

I read Self Control this year. Talk about drama! That poor girl was stalked. Thats all I can say. You can tell how Jane Austen changed everything in women's fiction. This high drama is the basic type of writing done by a lot of women's writers of that period. Until Jane Austen. Do you agree?

[@Bookslovejenna]

That new Sense and Sensibility was released on the Hallmark Channel in the States in February. I don’t think the UK has the Hallmark Channel. Are you familiar? It releases hundreds (yes - hundreds) of super saccharine, cheesy romance movies every year. They can be fun. I did watch this. It’s not great. I wouldn’t put too much energy into finding it but if it falls in your lap it might be a nice diversion. I graded papers while watching it and didn’t miss a beat. 😂

[@kathleencraine7335]

I love Juliet Stevenson's Emma--her portrayal of Mr Woodhouse cracks me up every time. My USA Library has a Robert Morrison book: "The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern" (2019). Would that be the same as your "Regency Revolution"? Morrison also annotated the Belknap edition of "Persuasion: an Annotated Edition", which I read and enjoyed.

[@elizabethjonczyk6818]

I believe "The Regency Years" is the American title of the book "The Regency Revolution."

[@kathleencraine7335]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was the same book or a different book by Morrison.

[@maratrenzas673]

Cuales son las cuestiones mas importantes para usted?