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[QNPoohBear]

Volume the Third: In Her Own Hand
I finished up with reading Jane Austen's juvenile short story "Evelyn". It's very bizarre and gets even worse when her niece Anna tries to make it Gothic. I still have to read the handwritten manuscript and the other story included, "Catherine, or the Bower". I remember liking that one and thinking it was a very early draft of Northanger Abbey.

[Renuka]

QNPoohBear wrote: "I completed the challenge of reading something written in Jane Austen's time An American In Regency England or the original is titled [book:Journal Of A Tour And Residence In Great B..."

Thank you for this. Very useful review too - and I was about to ask you for one! Book's now on my TBR and I got the 2 original vols from google too. Thanks again!
Cheers,

[Meriyou]

It is August already, but I'm going to continue with the challenge I have left. So, it is time for Bridget Jones :)

[Renuka]

Margaret wrote: "Am reading a slim book called Fashion In The Time Of Jane Austen. A slim book. Great photos and history in this book. I'm enjoying it so much because I love fashion and the clothes were unique and ..."

Thank you for this recommendation. Read some reviews and have it on TBR now!

[Rachel]

Hi All,
I didn't manage to complete ally the challenges for JAJuly unfortunately :( but it has taught me some lessons which I will take into next year and when I once again attempt the challenges I will I hope finish them all. I will say how I got on here:
So my plan was to read -
1. P&P, which I completed and absolutely loved even though I read it so often I'm starting to know parts of the book almost off by heart. I read this one rather quickly though at times I was reading along with the readalong so that was fun taking part in discussing it.
2. Sandition, which I did also read reasonably fast as it's a short book. I loved this one as well and am so glad I've read it.
3. Jane on the brain, exploring the science of social intellegence with Jane Austen - Wendy Jones, which I didn't managed to finish but did start. This one I must say I was/am disappointed with so far. The title is misleading as there seems to be lots of brain science and not enough Jane Austen. I tried to think of it like an interesting brain study but then that also annoyed me when I realised the author made a lot of assumptions based on little or no scientific research about brain function and mental illnesses such as Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It seems to be a really big book too which isn't helpful. I'm not sure I'll even finish it as I've been reading it for a while and on my Kindle it says I'm only 15% through the book. This was a bad choice on my part.
4. Heart of Stone - Elle Katherine White, unfortunately I didn't get time to start this in July but I will read it hopefully this year.
5. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, again I didn't start this one because I ran out of time but I'll read it later this year I hope.
6. P&P 1995 Colin Firth adaptation, I watched this with my partner and loved it so much (this is my fave direct adaptation of P&P which I've seen loads of time but it was his first watch and he enjoyed it too so that's a plus)
7. Bride and Prejudice 2004 film modern adaptation, I watched this again as a re-watch and again loved it.

So to conclude I completed 4 out of the 7 challenges. I had a lot of fun this month and enjoyed discussions on this group as well as watching YouTube videos put up by Katie at Books and Things and others relating to JA. I will definitely take part next year. Thank you all :)

[QNPoohBear]

Renuka wrote: "QNPoohBear wrote: "I completed the challenge of reading something written in Jane Austen's time An American In Regency England"
Thank you for this recommendation. Read some reviews and have it on TBR now!


It's fascinating in parts and I am upset the published version my parents bought me cuts out a lot. I need to know EVERYTHING! It's a good resource for the novelist and novel reader for background information.