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[close] Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. ---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 a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book ---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--- *Emma (the novel)* 1st July: chapters 1, 2 2nd: 3, 4 3rd: 5, 6 4th: 7, 8 5th: 9, 10 6th: 11, 12 7th: 13, 14 8th: 15, 16 9th: 17, 18 10th: 19, 20 (volume II, 1, 2) 11th: 21, 22 (volume II, 3, 4) 12th: 23, 25 (volume II, 5, 6) 13th: 25, 26 (volume II, 7, 8) 14th: 27, 28 (volume II, 9, 10) 15th: 29, 30 (volume II, 11, 12) 16th: 31, 32 (volume II, 13, 14) 17th: 33, 34 (volume II, 15, 16) 18th: 35, 36 (volume II, 17, 18) 19th: 37, 38 (volume III, 1, 2) 20th: 39, 40 (volume III, 3, 4) 21st: 41, 42 (volume III, 5, 6) 22nd: 43, 44 (volume III, 7, 8) 23rd: 45, 46 (volume III, 9, 10) 24th: 47, 48 (volume III, 11, 12) 25th: 49, 50 (volume III, 13, 14) 26th: 51, 52 (volume III, 15, 16) 27th: 53, 54, 55 (volume III, 17, 18, 19) And our group read is the Emma 2020 film!

[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] To mark the US release of his fourth Yashim mystery, An Evil Eye, the 2007 Edgar Award winning crime writer Jason Goodwin will be answering readers' questions from March 21 to March 27.

[close] This is a group for anyone who wants to read the Chunksters (the BIG books like Anna Karenina, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Infinite Jest, A Suitable Boy, In Search of Lost Time, Jerusalem, Middlemarch, Miss Macintosh My Darling, Ulysses (ok, you get the idea...). We are all about making these fun and easier to read in a group format! Plus there are mini-group Chunkster buddy reads for books that members want to get together and read. **Before you join, please be sure to go to our Group Guidelines thread and be sure you understand the rules in this fun group!**