*If groups like this really exist, please tell me how to become one of your order...
Below is the schedule of events to help guide you through the next two WoJ (Weeks of Jane). The Austen in August button, seen above, will be at the bottom of every post, which you can click to be brought back to this main page, and from thense, onto your next bit of Janedom! Feel free to snag the button below and display it on your sidebars, tumblrs, or your own AIA blog posts, should you feel so inspired!
And speaking of your own posts - a lot of the amazing Jane goodness you're going to see during Austen in August was contributed by other bloggers and authors who are amazing and astounding and awesome, and I'm sure other words beginning with 'A,' so make sure to show them lost of love!
Also, while we're at it, I HIGHLY recommend that you join our read-along of Lady Susan (it's suuuper quick, I promise!), and the accompanying discussions, movie watching parties and/or twitter chats!
Last piece of business, I will be using page breaks this year, so if you see a post that interests you, click through! I've gone back and forth over the years, but the faster page load times and the minimization of clutter won out this year, so page breaks it is! But please, weigh in: if you'd much rather have each post in its entirety on the main page, let me know!
Now: let's get down to business. . . (to defeat the Huns... wait, wrong fandom.)
YOUR DANCE CARD
(My, aren't you the belle of the ball?)
Sunday, the 20th
- Welcome and Schedule - you are here.
- Read Along Invite: Lady Susan
- Viewer's Choice: Vote on what you'd like to see during AIA!
- Save the Date: Movie Watch Along & Chat: Love & Friendship
- ICYMI: We had a discussion of Austen's best worst character, and MAN! there is a real plethora to choose from...
Monday, the 21st
- Introducing Lady Susan Vernon | guest post from Maria Grace!
- 5 Minutes with Jane Austen: a Janeite Roundtable discussion
- Persuading Austen by Brigid Coady | review from Sophia Rose!
- ICYMI: Taking it way back to year one with this review of Murder at Mansfield Park, which has some of my favorite covers in all of JAFF.
- Review: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
- Excerpt: Coming Home by Marilyn Brant
- Giveaway: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict!
- ICYMI: I shared some of my all-time favorite Austen adaptations in this vlog!
- Giveaway: Coming Home by Marilyn Brant!
- Completing Austen: Lady Sooz & Then Some
- Future Jane: a Trio of upcoming Janeish books!
- ICYMI: Throwing it back to our Emma read along here, with my remembrances of my first time reading Emma, my thoughts now, and how it breaks my heart that there are people in the world who don't like Emma-the-character. *frowny face*
- Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen Behind Closed Doors
- Excessively Diverted: the podcast!
- Cringeworthy Austen: a Janeite Roundtable discussion!
- ICYMI: Among the Janeites author Deborah Yaffe talked about what, exactly, is wrong with Mansfield Park...
- Lady Susan, Master Manipulator | guest post from Maria Grace!
- First Impressions: The One That Got Away by Melissa Pimentel
- ICYMI: I gave you all some gif-spiration for Sense & Sensibility, to go along with last year's read along. And though we may not be *officially* reading it this year, the longing looks still apply.
- The Perfections of Pemberley | guest post from Alexa Adams!
- On the Internets: LBD plays MMD!
- My Eye On. . . | Austenesque Audiobooks I'm keeping tabs on
- ICYMI: Danielle shared with us a short story she'd written, in its entirety, called "Is That So?"
- Jane Austen Meets _________ : a Janeite Roundtable discussion
- Lady Susan Read Along: Discussion Questions!
- Excerpt & GIVEAWAY! A Less Agreeable Man by Maria Grace!
- ICYMI: A couple AIAs ago, Maggie Sullivan joined us to share some scenes Austen didn't write, based on some dated and. . . interesting book covers. Enjoy!
- TONIGHT! Live Twitter Chat & viewing of Love & Friendship. more info can be found here.
- In Want of a Single Man with a Large Fortune?; Or, Jane’s Cats | guest post from Nicole Clarkston!
- GIVEAWAY: Hand Lettered & Watercolored Bookmarks!
- Review & GIVEAWAY! Pemberley: Mr Darcy's Dragon by Maria Grace!
- ICYMI: I reviewed a recent contemporary YA favorite, Interference, by Kay Honeyman. Described as Friday Night Lights* meets Emma, this one totally won me over!
*Hey, weren't we just talking about that?
Wednesday, the 30th
- A Definitive Ranking of Jane Austen’s Novels | Guest Post & GIVEAWAY from Karen M. Cox!
- Lost Love in Jane Austen | guest post from Eliza Shearer
- Austen Purist vs. Wild-Child: Wishes & Wants | a Janeite Roundtable discussion
- ICYMI: Over the years, Beth has satisfied our sweet tooths (sweet teeth? That sounds horribly wrong) and kept us from getting hangry with recipes for mincemeat pies, ratafia cakes, and white soup in her Eat Like Austen series.
Thursday, the 31st
- The Plight of Regency Era Widows | guest post from Maria Grace!
- Love & Friendship: the aftermath
- First Impressions: Darcy in Wonderland by Alexa Adams
- ICYMI: Throwing it back to all of year one, because I just want you to take a look at the schedule itself. During that first year, I divided the Master List schedule (aka, the thing you're looking at right now) into "dances" based on each book, rather than posting a day-by-day schedule. I took my "dance card" thing pretty seriously then, it seems. . . 🤣
Friday, the 1st
to be revealed
Want more Austen while you wait for tomorrow's fresh posts? Check out past AIAs!
Yay! Can't wait to read all the fab posts. :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to all the fun!
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ReplyDeleteOoh, just discovered this! Looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteOK, in and around all the other craziness of my life right now, I'm gonna TRY to get some Austen time in. I'm also hoping to visit Bath while on the honeymoon in October, or perhaps another Austen site, but not sure if it'll work out. If I do, I'll take tons of pics and share them.
ReplyDeleteOuch! I am already late to the party... just found this. Dang!
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