Austen August: A Pride and Prejudice Read-A-Long discussion
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General- Introduce Yourselves!
Hello Andie, let me just start by saying I'm excited to have the chance to re-read this book and have discussions. Excellent idea! My name is Renee. I am new to Goodreads. This will be the first group I joined :). I graduated with my B.S in secondary English Education in 2011. However, I am currently the store manager of a shoe store. The past few years I have neglected reading, reading just 3 or 4 books a year. I joined Goodreads in the attempt to rekindle my love of literature. So if you have any good book recommendations, I'm all ears!
Hello!!My name is Patty! I was previously a journalism student but I'm switching over to Business - Marketing come January. I'm a huge book lover, but aren't we all? I have a book blog on wordpress called "imaginativeminds", I also have a Youtube channel that I'm taking a hiatus from. I re-read Pride & Prejudice every year and I'm excited to be able to discuss it with others! Looking forward to chatting with you all! :)
Hi!My name is Elen. I've just finished doing my A levels so I now have a long summer ahead of me full of reading. I'm really looking forward to reading Pride & Prejudice for the first time because I've been planning on reading it for a long time. I can't wait to discuss it with everybody!
hi guys! thanks for joining the group, looking forward to having some bookish fun with you!
Welcome to Goodreads, Renee! Ive not really been very active in groups myself so I'm new to it too! I hope you enjoy it!
Patty, juat "YES" to everything you said! I get bitten by the Austen bug every year but it will be fun to add a social element to it.Elen- Congrats on finishing your A levels! Can't believe it has been 7 years since I sat mine!! Enjoy your well earned summer :) Im glad youve chosen to spend some of that time with us
Hi everyone :) I'm Annette {booknerderie on wordpress} and I'm a bookaholic. I love love love P&P and cannot wait to read it again with this lovely group. I'm a Gulf Coast girl, with a degree in Communications :) looking forward to this read a thon!! *runs off to pick which version of Pride and Prejudice to read*
how many versions have you got, Annette?!
4 maybe. I like to collect :)
brilliant! Which ones do you have? I have the penguin new english library edition and the penguin classica edition. I'm giving the classics one away to a friend so she can join in the group
D'you know, I don't know off the top of my head. I can picture their covers but not the official editions. The Penguin Drop Cap series for sure.
oooh those drop cap versions are stunning
The covers are lovely. I just found a P&P graphic novel. Whaaaat?! Yes please
yes! there is a Marvel Northanger Abbey I have been eyeing up for months!! Do want!
Hi everyone! Thank you, Andie, for inviting me to join the group!My name is Verena, I'm from Germany. I have a masters in art history and philosophy and I work in an art gallery.
P&P is one of my favorite books, I've read it multiple times. The last time was in September, when I went to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. Looking forward to reading it again with all of you :)
Hello, everyone!My name is Kat. I live in the United States, and I'm starting my second year of University with a major in Japanese language.
I've been a fan of Jane Austen since I first read Pride and Prejudice at the age of 12, and watch any film adaptation I can get my hands on.
I'm very excited to have a chance to discuss the book with all of you.
Hi! I'm Kassey this will be my first Jane Austen book. I'm 21, thinking about starting a booktube channel, and obsessed with goodreads. I also like hugs, chocolate and coffee.
Welcome Verena! Lovely to see you join missus!wasn't Bath an amazing city? I mean, god I'm in love with it, even without the Austen references. I forgot you worked in an Art Gallery- that's cool!
Kaaaaat- welcome~ My dorama tumblr friend! I can't believe you are in second year uni already- that's flown by! I'm so excited that so many people have decided to join this group, it's going to be so great to have a number of people join in with this project
Hi Kassey! Great to see you join the group, and I'm pretty honoured you've decided, along with Elen, to read P&P for the first time with us! That's brilliant!
If you start a booktube channel, be sure to let us all know and link it here! I'm sure we'd all love to follow it. Chocolate, hugs and coffee are a winning combination, lets face it!
Welcome, Emme! Hope you managed to find the time to join us =) it will last from 1st-31st August so there is no pressure to keep up if you are busy, plenty of time.
Hi everyone! I'm Emily, and I'm a young adult book blogger at Books & Cleverness. I'm a Jane Austen newbie (this absolutely needs to change!), so I'm hoping to participate in this read-a-long to kickstart my Austen reading!
Hi Em!!! Good to see a familiar face ;) I'm super excited for this group read!!!
Hi! I'm a book blogger at Confessions of a Book Geek on wordpress. I graduated in 2012 with a degree in Communications and Public Relations and rediscovered my love for reading after reading nothing but assigned textbooks for four years! I always want to read more classics but lack the motivation to see it through, new and shiny books distract me! Looking forward to my first group/book club type read!
Hello everyone, late to the happy party but my name is Aida and I am one of the few who started reading P&P but quit because I couldn't keep up with the writing, eep! I'm a 21-year old journalism student from The Netherlands with a degree in desktoppublishing (basically designing flyers/posters/magazines etc) and I hope to make this experience an awesome one! :)
Hi everybody! My name is Sylvia, I'm 21, and this fall I will be going into my last year as a Biology major.
I have loved reading ever since I was little and some of my favorite genres include historical fiction, classics, memoirs, and science fiction.
I am actually reading both Emma and P&P right now, but I doubt I will finish it anytime soon. If I do finish in July, I will definitely participate in the discussions!
Hello everyone. My name is Alicia and I run the book blog A Kernel of Nonsense. I'm a huge P&P fan and just recently reread it earlier this year, but am always up for another round of my favorite book.
Welcome Sylvia and Alicia : D happy to have you join us!
Hi everyone. I'm Gen and blog on Mrs Holpepper: Bookworm on Wordpress. I'm a primary school teacher and have a degree in English Lit and a PGDip in Children's Literature. I got into Austen when I read Sense and Sensibility for my A-levels and really enjoy reading her work.I haven't read Pride and Prejudice for about 11 years but I did read the Marvel Graphic Novel version a year or so ago and it really was good!! I've been meaning to re-read Pride and Prejudice for a while but never really got around to it so I look forward to doing it here!
(I've also had a goodreads account for ages and not done anything with it so it's good to have a go and work out how this thing works).
Hi I'm Ashley and like a few others I am also a book blogger at Falling Down The Book Hole on wordpress. I am a recent college grad just trying to figure out my life and resorting to books to solve all of my problems! I am also a Austen newbie and have been wanting to read Pride and Prejudice forever so I am excited to be able to read it for the first time with a group of people :)
Hey it's Ashley :) glad you're joining in on this group read!
Welcome Gen and Ashley! Made up to see you two on here!
Hi! My name is Jenny and I intermittently blog over at jennylikesbooks.com. I recently got my masters in library and information science and I currently take care of the children's and teen section in a bookstore.I have read a smattering of Austen's work, but I only think I've read Pride and Prejudice once. Now that I think about it, I might not even own a copy- gasp! Anyway, I am excited to take part in this! This is my first time participating actively in an online discussion like this, so I am quite pumped.
Genevieve- I am excited to hear that the graphic novel was good! I feel like those kind of things are always so hit or miss.
Welcome Jenny, chuffed that you've joined us!
Hi guys! Soo, I started a booktube channel. So far I'm updating with the booktube-a-thon video challenges and such. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yE... in case you wanna check it out! :D
brilliant! will defintely follow your channel on there. Good luck with the challenges Kassey!
Hi everyone! My name is Shannon. I joined this group so that I may discuss Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I have never read this book and have just taken interest in reading yesterday. I was thinking about Shannon .I who is also in this group a.k.a Cozyteareads on Booktube. Anyway I was thinking about how much she loves Jane Austen books so I decided that I should read a Jane Austen book since I value her opinion. I often read most books she recommends, but this time I decided that I need to read this book. Can't wait to start reading!
Shannon, same here! After seeing Shannon from Cozyteareads talk about the book, I needed to find out why this book is talked about so much. Now is the perfect opportunity :)
brilliant! Welcome Sara and Shannon! happy to see you here!
Hola everyone!! I'm Lore from Argentina. I'm kind of new on Goodreads, just starting to know how everything works around here. So this is my first reading group :D Yaaaay!!I've read this book before... but I believe it was almost 10 years ago. It's going to be like reading it for the first time 'cause it's been a long time. Can wait to start!
Hi everybody! I'm so late to the party! I'm Shannon and I run the booktube channel cozyteareads! I can't wait for August, it's been WAY too long since I've read Jane Austen. It'll be all rereads for me and I can't wait to see what any Austen newcomers think! AHH! Whoo! Can't wait!
Hi Everyone, You all sound so wonderfully young and so I may not fit in, but I've been an Austen fan for years and thought this might be fun to do.When I'm not reading,I'm probably knitting or playing with my corgis.
If you're a reader, then you fit in perfectly :)
Exactly what Annette said! Everyone is welcome here! Looking forward to your input Diane! (I also spend a lot of my spare time knitting so I'm with you on that one!)
Andie wrote: "Exactly what Annette said! Everyone is welcome here! Looking forward to your input Diane! (I also spend a lot of my spare time knitting so I'm with you on that one!)"If only I could figure out a way to read and knit at the same time!
My name, for those who don't know, is Andie. I run a book blog named "thebookheap" over at wordpress. I've recently graduated from my masters degree in criminal justice at university and currently, I work in a toy shop.