Jane Austen - celebtrates 250 years in 2025, what will you be reading

me, I've got 6 books lined up including Pride and Prejudice, and currently listening to an abridged adaptation of Emma

I'll probably continue through my boxed set of the BBC adaptations while ironing.

Didn't know about that but was already planning to read Mansfield Park for a challenge.

Not sure I'll read anything specifically, but there is an audio drama series done by the BBC that I'll probably buy on audible and listen to.

I was also thinking about movies / boxsets, and have these books lined up so far

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The History of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian Jane Austen
Jane Austen: A Life Claire Tomalin
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections James Edward Austen-Leigh
The Task and Other Poems William Cowper

Thanks for alerting us to this celebration. Perhaps next year would be a good time to finally reread Emma, the only one of Austen's novels I have not reread in the past 20 years.

>6 sturlington: it's funny you mention Emma, I've borrowed from Libby Emma: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation, it's a touch dated but enjoying how Jane Austen's humour come through.

I didn't know about the anniversary, but began listening to the audio version of Persuasion a couple of days ago, so will finish it in 2025.

Maybe this will be the year where I actually manage to get through all of Northanger Abbey as I have never completed that particular read.

>9 jillmwo:

That's my sentimental favorite of hers. After the first day of the bar exam, when everyone else was rehashing and second-guessing, I went back to my hotel room and read Northanger Abbey. An excellent distraction!

>9 jillmwo: That one I have read quite as much of as I ever care to.

Northanger, I didn't like it when I read it years back but this time I listened to the abridged version and it was amusing. Catherine Morland at times seemed a bit OTT.

I finished Emma: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation, t=a touch dated but enjoyable and will try to find more of these dramas.

>15 AnishaInkspill: Hmm...scratching my head. How was it dated? Was it the acting or production? Since the story was contemporaneous to Austen's time, it's going to be very different compared to how we live and think these days, but I think that's to its credit not its detriment. Of course it would feel "dated", but it should, right? Not starting anything, just actually curious since I plan to buy the full set of those dramas from Audible.