Austenesque Lovers TBR Pile Reading Challenge 2017 discussion

If you are willing to place one of your June reading choices in the hands of another person, leave a comment here with at least five books and no more than ten from your TBR shelf. Participants need to leave comments no later than May 25th .

Here's how it will work:
Sophia will match people up and leave a comment with a list of who will choose for whom.
When you see the person you are to pick for, then just look at their list in the above comments and leave a new comment with their name and the book you chose for them by May 31st.

You also need to watch and see what book your person chose from your list for you.
You have the rest of the month to read the book.

So if this sounds like something you would like to do, just comment below leaving your name and list of book choices for someone to pick your June book.

Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler
2. That Girl, Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Story by James Ramos
3. A Contrary Wind: a variation on Mansfield Park by Lona Monning
4. Searching for Mr Tilney by Jane Odiwe
5. Darcy's Honor: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Victoria Kincaid
6. Mistress: A Pride and Prejudice Variation, with Parts Not Suitable for Those Who Have Not Reached Their Majority by Sophia Turner
7. House of Daughters: A Romance Set in 1920s Ottoman Turkey Inspired by Pride and Prejudice by Engin Holmstrom
8. Meryton Vignettes: Tales of Pride and Prejudice by Elizabeth Adams
9. The Courtship of Edward Gardiner: A Pride & Prejudice Prequel by Nicole Clarkston
10. The Coming of Age of Elizabeth Bennet by Caitlin Williams

Ok. I forgot about "Someone Pick It For Me" last time, so I'll be sure to get my list up this time. Someone kick me if it's not posted by the end of the month!

I’m going to try to join in. Major back surgery in early July so I’m busy getting my life in order, but I have to sit down sometimes, right?

1. Mimi Marinucci, Jane Austen and Philosophy
2. Darcie Wilde, A Purely Private Matter
3. Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Pact
4. Sherwood Smith, Fair Winds and Homeward Sail: Sophy Croft's Story
5. Kathleen Flynn, The Jane Austen Project
6. Stefan Scheuermann, Say It Like Miss Austen: A Jane Austen Phrase Thesaurus
7. Carrie Bebris, The Intrigue at Highbury: Or, Emma's Match
8. Peter J. Leithart, Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen

@ Debbie- Will do! :)

@Abigail- ouch, yeah between PT, heating pads and ice, some reading to take you away from it all would be nice. :)

I got through my recovery from hip replacement ten years ago by reading through a stack of Austenesque novels sent to me by a lovely friend. Don’t remember much about them, anesthesia fumes having fogged my brain, but I did find it a delightful diversion! Expect to do the same this time.

Ha! Yes, this is true. Anesthesia does that to me, too. Oh well, delightful diversion indeed. :)

I'm in! This is almost the same list as last time; I've simply replaced the one I read in April with another from the same author.

01. Pride & Prejudice & Assassinations by Leo Charles Taylor
02. Darcy's Days by Fitzwilliam Darcy
03. The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini
04. Swimming in Rain by Heather C. Myers
05. Another Place in Time by Mary Lydon Simonsen
06. Steampunk Darcy by Monica Fairview
07. Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen by Sally Smith O'Rourke
08. Assumed Engagement by Kara Louise
09. Find Wonder in All Things by Karen M. Cox
10. Foundation of Love: The Gypsy Blessing 2 by Wendi Sotis

I'm in
1. Kitty Bennet in Love
2. Mr. Darcy's P&P POV - the abridged version
3. Intermezzo
4. March Madness Mash-Ups
5. The scenes Jane Austen never wrote: First anniversaries
6. Jane Bennet in January
7. Anniversary February
8. Mr. Darcy's Vow: A Pride and Prejudice Story
9. You Had Me At Hello
10. Snowbound at Hartfield: A Sweet Tea Novella; Pride and Prejudice sequel

No you are not experiencing deja vu... this is the same list from last month... minus one. This is so much fun. Here is my list.

1) Darcy's Ultimatum: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
2) Progression Vol. 1: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
3) Chosen
4) On Oakham Mount: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
5) Memory: Volume 1, Lasting Impressions: A Tale Of Pride And Prejudice
6) Another Darcy: A Collection of Pride and Prejudice Variations
7) Darcy and Elizabeth What If? Collection 1
8) A Fair Prospect: Volume I, II & III
9) Dearest Friends: A Jane Austen Inspired Novel
10) Lottie Pursues Bill


In my TBR pile I have several works that are in a series, a box-set, or a collection. When you choose one from my list, I am obligating myself to read the set. That should clear out the cobwebs. Here is the best part… I am keeping a copy of this list and will continue to submit it, with each new ‘Someone Else Pick It For Me’ month, until I clear out my dusty TBR pile. I am tired of freezing up every time I try to decide where I want to start. Hey, I think this will be fun. It doesn’t matter where we start… in a few months this list… ‘will be back’… sorry, couldn’t help it.

I am copying the idea of those above who posted books not read from their previous list. I put the average rating from Amazon next to the title which may help in selecting the book I should read. Although some have only one review on which the rating was based:

1. Pride & Prejudice Villains Revisited - Redeemed - Reimagined: A Collection of Six Short Stories 4.4 stars
2. Regret: A Variation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 2.4
3. Engaged to Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Continuation 3.7
4. Three Weddings and an Elopement: A Pride and Prejudice Variation 1.5
5. Lost in Love: A Pride and Prejudice Variation4 stars
6. Darcy and Elizabeth: The Faces of Love 4.3
7. A Walk in Oakham Wood: A Pride and Prejudice Variation Novella 3.4
8. Conviction: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 3.8
9. The Darcy Spirit: A Pride and Prejudice variation 3

Also copying the idea......just needed more pick and found it...

A Perpetual Estrangement -Alice B Ryder
Persuaded -Misty Dawn Pulsipher
Mansfield - " " "
Parked at the Mansfields' -Sandy Ward Bell
The suspicion at Sanditon by Carrie Bebris

Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler
2. [book:That Girl, Darcy: A Pride and Prejud..."

I've read four of your books listed and I don't know how I could choose among them. Lol...don't pick me to choose for you!!!! :)

Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler
2. [book:That Girl, Darcy: A P..."

Lucky of the draw is all I can promise. :) Just kidding. I do switch out if people got the name they had the last time. Wouldn't want to cause gnashing of teeth so I'll cut you a break, Kirk.

Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler
2. [book:That Gir..."
:) I was kidding about not choosing me....sorta.....gnashing of teeth is an all too often occurrence for me. :)

Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler
2...."

Okay, we'll go with luck and happenstance and see where it gets you. (and now I'm hearing Dirty Harry, 'do you feel lucky, punk?' LOL

Ah--one of my favorite movies, Kirk! I remember seeing a double bill once of Dirty Harry and Return of the Dragon and emerging transformed. Who knew how cathartic stylized violence could be? Not this sheltered private-school girl.

Abigail wrote: "Ah--one of my favorite movies, Kirk! I remember seeing a double bill once of Dirty Harry and Return of the Dragon and emerging transformed. Who knew how cathartic stylized violence could be? Not th..."

Dad, brother, and a bunch of single GI's my mom brought home from the base every holiday meant I saw my fair share of stylized violence. LOL

OMG!!! Sophia what a hoot. You have a wealth... plethora of... or a fantastic well of information for stories. A different set of GI's for every holiday. An Austen GI Holiday... so to speak. I think I'm rambling... somebody please tell me to stop.

J. W. wrote: "OMG!!! Sophia what a hoot. You have a wealth... plethora of... or a fantastic well of information for stories. A different set of GI's for every holiday. An Austen GI Holiday... so to speak. I thin..."

LOL, actually I shouldn't say every holiday, but some. The ones who really got into TV take over was my dad the coach bringing home his basketball team for some yelling and growling over sports. Yeah, maybe sometime this stuff will show up in a story. :)

I think that is a scream... no pun intended. What a fun place that must have been.

Coach Bennet working with a college or pro sports team and he with 5 daughters at home. OMG! I'll stop... sorry.

J. W. wrote: "I think that is a scream... no pun intended. What a fun place that must have been.

Coach Bennet working with a college or pro sports team and he with 5 daughters at home. OMG! I'll stop... sorry."

:)

I was the only sister with 3 older brothers. My dad and brothers weren't much for movies, but I grew up watching lots and lots and lots of baseball, basketball, football and golf!

Debbie wrote: "I was the only sister with 3 older brothers. My dad and brothers weren't much for movies, but I grew up watching lots and lots and lots of baseball, basketball, football and golf!"

Wow, I'll bet. :)

Debbie wrote: "I was the only sister with 3 older brothers. My dad and brothers weren't much for movies, but I grew up watching lots and lots and lots of baseball, basketball, football and golf!"

I'm reverse Debbie. I'm an only girl with three YOUNGER brothers. I think this is probably worse!!!!

Yeah but at least (for a while at least) you were bigger than them. I was a tomboy and could never beat any of my brothers at anything!

I'll follow the leaders in keeping/adding to previous list -- but I have read several in the interim, so must add

1. Chaos Comes to Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
2. Mr. Darcy Came to Dinner
3. Engaged to Mr Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Continuation
4. Assumed Obligation
5. Longbourn's Unexpected Matchmaker
6. Waking to Mr. Darcy
7. The Madness of Mr. Darcy
8. His Inconvenient Choice
9. Her Heart's Choice
10. Expectations: The Transformation of Miss Anne de Bourgh

Happy Mothers' Day to all who celebrate!

Sheila wrote: "Happy Mothers' Day to all who celebrate!"

and to you as well!

Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition by E..."

Do you feel lucky, teeth gnasher....

Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Here's what I have for selection this month. Looking forward to your pick. :)

1. [book:Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition..."


Buahaha! That's great.

this is my list this time around


pride and platypus
before a fall
sisters of longbourn
vindication of the rights of women
a lie universally hidden

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Okay, I will throw my list into the fire:
1. Matches Made at Netherfield: A Pride & Prejudice Novel Variation by Zoe Burton
2. Passages: A Pemberley Tale by Brenda Webb
3. The Whisky Wedding: a Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet story by Elizabeth Ann West
4. Shadows Upon Netherfield: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Nora Kipling
5. Elizabeth Bennet's Excellent Adventure: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary by Regina Jeffers
6. A Bevy of Suitors by Jann Rowland
7. The Red Chrysanthemum by Linda Beutler
8. Fair Winds and Homeward Sail: Sophy Croft's Story by Sherwood Smith
9. Particular Intentions by L.L. Diamond
10. Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde


Okay, pick a good and entertaining one for me. I will force myself to slow down on sprucing up my yard so I can read!!!! Though now that my yard is looking better, I need to sit out and enjoy it with a good and entertaining book!!! LOL

I've just come across this by accident. I didn't get any notification about it. I'm in and I'll post my list as soon as!!

Teresa wrote: "I've just come across this by accident. I didn't get any notification about it. I'm in and I'll post my list as soon as!!"

I hadn't done a message for it yet. Sorry about that, Teresa. I was trying to time it so I could mention the May group wrap up, the June Pick it and announce July's read. However, I have been stumped about the July read idea so my message has not gone out yet... I'll get that sorted out so a group message can go out. :)

No problem Sophia. Thought I'd missed something along the way. I'm kinda choked with books to read at the moment and not enough time. However, I never got around to last months so I'm determined to take part in this one.

My list:

1 Edgar and Emma: A Novel After Jane Austen
2 Mansfield Parsonage
3 Mansfield Restored: Miss Crawford's Return
4 Newbury Acres: An Amish Christian Romance Novel: An Amish Romance Adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
5 Leap of Hope: Chance at an Austen Kind of Life by Shannon Winslow

Here's my list! I'm still working on these ones!

1. Death Comes to Pemberley

2. The Passions of Dr Darcy

3. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

3. Pemberley Ranch

4. Vanity and Vexation

And the new addition:

5. Pride and Pyramids

Looking forward to taking part in this again! I'm using my list from last time, but just replacing the one I read with a new title.

1. Pemberley Haunted by Jessica L. Jackson
2. Murder & Matchmaking by Debbie Cowers
3. Villa Fortuna by Cat Gardiner
4. Mr. Darcy's Bad Day by Christie Capps
5. Pen & Prejudice by Claire Johnson

Getting my list in just under the wire!! Here goes:

1. Darcy's Awakening: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
2. Courtship and Marriage in Jane Austen's World
3. A Covenant of Marriage
4. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Fugitive
5. The Jane Austen Project
6. Thirteen Days
7. Jane Austen and Mozart: Classical Equilibrium in Fiction and Music
8. Leap of Hope: Chance at an Austen Kind of Life
9. Through Every Storm: A Pride and Prejudice Novella
10. Pride & Prejudice: Behind the Scenes

And this is good, Debbie, because I totally forgot you asked to be reminded. :)

No problem, Sophia. As you see, I managed okay without the reminder!

Hey, Everyone!

Here is the result of the drawing. Remember, the person listed on the left picks for the name listed to the right. Pick from the person's list in the above comments. Please make your picks by May 31st so we can begin reading right on June 1st. Make a new comment with the person's name and the book you picked for them. Oh, and don't forget to check for a comment with the book choice someone else made for you. After your read, drop by and let us know what you thought of your book.

Debbie--> wosedwew
Anna --> Kirk
Patricia--> Sheila
Victoria--> J.W.
Teresa--> Kristin
Erika --> Anji
Lenora--> Abigail
wosedwew--> Sophia
Kirk --> Debbie
Sheila --> Anna
J.W. --> Patricia
Kristin --> Victoria
Anji --> Teresa
Abigail --> Erika
Sophia --> Lenora

Happy Reading!

Howdy, Lenora!

I'm picking A Lie Universally Hidden for you.

Hope its a good one!

Ahhh Sophia!

You listed several I rated very high -- and 2 on my all-time favorites list. I'm going with the older of the two:

The Coming of Age of Elizabeth Bennet

Enjoy!

Hi Debbie! I'm glad you made the list under the wire as #7 Jane Austen and Mozart(although not a fan of his music) looks very interesting. Lol..TMI warning...although he is only in my upper part of a classical top ten...I think Bach might be a better choice. Happy reading!!!

wosedwew wrote: "Ahhh Sophia!

You listed several I rated very high -- and 2 on my all-time favorites list. I'm going with the older of the two:

The Coming of Age of Elizabeth Bennet

Enjoy!"

Oh yay! It is one I've wanted to read for a while. Thanks, wosedwew

Anji, you have a wonderful list which made it hard for me to choose!!! I've read several and have the rest on my TBR list!!! Well it came down to Eenie, mennie, minni, mo!!! And the winner is… Assumed Engagement by Kara Louise. I hope you enjoy the choice!!!

Hi Victoria, I'm going to pick Death comes to Pemberley for you. I really enjoyed this one and I hope you do to.