19th Century

[close] Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. We are mostly using Discord now, so please head on over there if you'd like to: https://discord.gg/WUFHuRR8Ye ---The Challenges--- 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s 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 6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book 7. Watch something with a connection to Jane Austen that is not a direct adaptation ---Your Hosts--- Katie, Books and Things: https://www.youtube.com/@katiejlumsden Marissa, Blatantly Bookish: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlatantlyBookish Claudia, Spinster’s Library: https://www.youtube.com/@SpinstersLibrary ---The Group Reads/Watches--- Mansfield Park, two chapters a day from 1st to 24th July. Behind Closed Doors, Lucy Worsley documentary: Iplayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08sqxk1/jane-austen-behind-closed-doors Britbox: https://www.britbox.com/movie/Jane_Austen_Behind_Closed_Doors_p0mjkrvh Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_TA--tihi8

[close] So welcome to a Victorian-style Dickens readalong, run by me, Katie from Books and Things. Following on from our reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, we'll be starting reading Bleak House in March 2018. Here's the idea. We read Dickens's Bleak House in a serialised way, just as the Victorians would have done! So, three or four chapters a month, every month for eighteen months until we're finished. We talk about how we're reading here and I then make a monthly video talking about the chapters we've read that month. Here's the schedule. March 2018, chapters 1–4 April 2018, chapters 5–7 May 2018, chapters 8–10 June 2018, chapters 11–13 July 2018, chapters 14–16 August 2018, chapters 17–19 September 2018, chapters 20–22 October 2018, chapters 23–25 November 2018, chapters 26–29 December 2018, chapters 30–32 January 2019, chapters 33–35 February 2019, chapters 36–38 March 2019, chapters 39–42 April 2019, chapters 43–46 May 2019, chapters 47–49 June 2019, chapters 50–53 July 2019, chapters 54–56 August 2019, chapters 57–59 September 2019, chapters 60–67

[close] A place for readers and writers to share their favorite books about Chinese historical fiction and Chinese Magical Realism. I am a Goodreads author, and I wrote a novel set in Guangdong, southern China, in the 19th century. I am very interested in discovering more novels with that touch of Latin American magical realism I love so much. Please share your favorite books in this category, and let's discuss them. I am currently writing my second novel, also set in Guangdong. Hopefully it will be ready next year. For now, I am busy with the Spanish version of my novel Red-blooded Vase. Un espacio para que lectores y escritores compartan sus libros favoritos de ficción histórica china y de realismo mágico chino. Soy autor en Goodreads y escribí una novela ambientada en Guangdong, en el sur de China, en el siglo XIX. Me interesa mucho descubrir más novelas con ese toque de realismo mágico latinoamericano que tanto me gusta. Les invito a compartir sus libros favoritos de este género para que los comentemos juntos. Actualmente estoy escribiendo mi segunda novela, también ambientada en Guangdong. Con suerte, estará lista el próximo año. Por ahora, estoy ocupado con la versión en español de mi novela Red-blooded Vase.

[close] https://dashfire.substack.com/ Join me in reimagining a past that never was for the future of humorous historical writing. Subscribe to Dash Fire Diaries. It's a free escape hatch into an era where science fiction and fantasy coexist, where flying machines swoop over herds of unicorns. Here, the ordinary and the the fantastic meet head to horn. Join me in my exploration of the silly and the surreal. You are invited.