Austenesque Lovers TBR Challenge 2022 discussion

If you are willing to place one of your November 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 Oct 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 Nov. 30th.

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 November book.

I haven’t had much time for the group activities here for a while, but I’d love to try for November—I’ve been missing the fun!

1. The Other Bennet Sister
2. Dangerous Magic: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
3. Live, Love, Longbourn
4. Captive Hearts: A Persuasion Variation
5. A reread of An Assembly Such as This—it has been too long.

I love these challenges!

Goodness I will need to see where I am at before the end of the month to get my picks in.

I'm in! Here's my last Pick-It list of the year:

1. Alone with Mr. Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds
2. Darcy on the Hudson: A Pride and Prejudice Re-imagining by Mary Lydon Simonsen
3. Falling for Mr. Darcy by Kara Lynne Mackrory
4. Holidays with Jane: Thankful Hearts by Cecilia Gray
5. Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
6. Mischief & Mayhem: A Pride & Prejudice Novella by Christie Capps
7. A Pemberley Christmas by Jennifer Lang
8. An Unexpected Harvest: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Variation by Cat Andrews
9. Speechless by Jessie Lewis
10. An Unexpected Merry Gentleman by Anngela Schroeder

1)Camp Jane Volume two


2)Thankful Hearts(Holidays w Jane)



3) Nothing but Patience


4)Unexpected Hearts


5)Pride, Prejudice and Turkish Delight

I'm in, I love this game.
my picks:
1. Jan Ashton: Some natural importance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
2. Noell Chesney: All that this entails https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
3. Nicole Clarkston: Nefarious https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
4. Timothy Underwood: The Netherfield fire https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
5. Amy D'Orazio The mysteries of Pemberley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
6. Jennifer Joy: A splendidly unsuitable match https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
7. Jessie Lewis: Mistaken https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
8 Jeanne Peneaux: That Bennet chit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
9. Abigail Reynolds: Mr Darcy's undoing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
10. Joana Starnes: Mr Bennet's dutiful daughter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I’m going to expand on my October challenge and stick with books I have always said I will reread but in fact never have done so,

1) Lost Souls: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Martin Hunnicutt
2) Memory: Volume 1, Lasting Impressions: A Tale Of Pride And Prejudice by Linda Wells
3) When We Are Married: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Caitlin Williams
4) Wild Goose Chase: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Sophie Lynbrook
5) Still a Young Man: Darcy Is In Love by PO Dixon
6) For Want of a Nail by PR Hood
7) Their Share of Vexations by Lucrezia
8) Disruption at Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Emily Russell
9) Mistaken by Jessie Lewis
10) Darcy's Journey by MA Sandiford

My list for this challenge

1. A Stronger Impulse: A Variation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
2. Twists of Fate: A Pride and Prejudice Variation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
3. A Proper Introduction: A Pride & Prejudice Epistolary https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
4. Far From The Tree: A Pride and Prejudice Variation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
5. Epiphany: A Pride & Prejudice Variation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
6. Two More Days at Netherfield https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
7. Echoes from Pemberley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
8. Mistress of Netherfield https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
9. Fearful Symmetry: A Pride & Prejudice Variation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
10. Rescuing Elizabeth Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Just wanted to say I wish I could join in but I have over extended myself with challenges this year. Now I know my limits, so next year I will be a better participant!

CindySR wrote: "Just wanted to say I wish I could join in but I have over extended myself with challenges this year. Now I know my limits, so next year I will be a better participant!"

No worries, Cindy! We want it to be fun and not stressful so join when you can. Definitely next year!

Picking a bunch that keep getting pushed down the TBR pile:



Friendship and Betrayal: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

lady elizabeth vrvwv5 FF https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14061655/

Battle of roses AHA https://meryton.com/aha/index.php?/to...

Plots, Ploys, and the Art of Matchmaking

Franchise & Follies: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

Total Want of Propriety, Volume 2: Georgiana's Reclamation : A Pride and Prejudice Variation

I shuffled the names and here are the picks. Go through your person's book list above and leave a comment with your pick by October 1st. Don't forget to see what someone picked for you. Feel free to return with thoughts on your reading.

Abigail > Craftyhj
Sophia > Patricia
Kirk > Sam
Katja > abmom
Craftyhj > Sophia
Patricia > Abigail
abmom > Katja
Sam > Kirk

Happy Reading, all!

Hi Patricia!

You look in the mood for some holiday romancing so I pick The Knight Before Christmas by Marilyn Brant for you.

Hi, Crafty! For you I’ll pick Mistaken by Jessie Lewis.

abigail I chose captive Hearts. it's on my tbr pile to o

Kirk - I will let you get to volume 2 sooner than later ;)

Sam wrote: "Kirk - I will let you get to volume 2 sooner than later ;)
"
Thank you!!!

Hi Sam,
I'll return the Vol 2 favor! :)

Great minds...! Thank you

Abigail - thanks for the nudge to reread Mistaken

Sophia - I choose Unexpected Harvest for you. I am currently reading it and really enjoying it. It is a long book though so if November is super busy go for Speechless instead which is also great but shorter!

Abmom, what a great list! I had five-starred several of those. I am going with A Proper Introduction because it's the freshest in my memory. It was a really fun epistolary, pretty short.

Thanks, Patricia!

Katja, you have put me in such a dilemma because you've mamy of my favorites. I'm going to choose Joana's Mr. Bennet's dutiful daughter which is quite heartwrenchingly angsty but also so lovely.

Thank you Katja for the choice. I've always enjoyed Nicole's novellas.

Ahhh, you're so kind, Crafty!

I'll keep the back-up plan in mind just in case life goes nuts and I can't fit in a longer read. I finished her most recent release this summer and wanted to go back for her backlist so I'm glad you are reading and enjoying it.

I jumped the gun and already finished my book... it was angsty but so good! thank you Abmom,

I finished my book,
A Proper Introduction: A Pride & Prejudice Epistolary https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... 5++ stars.
Katja, thank you so much for your choice. It was a very enjoyable book. I loved it.

I'm happy you liked it :)

I’m afraid Captive Hearts: A Persuasion Variation was a DNF for me. Way too many errors of language and manners for me to get into the story. I was hoping for an account of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth’s original love story, before Persuasion begins—a story I’ve always felt was missing from Austen’s novel—but this basically retells Persuasion with the odd addition of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy. Too many other books on my list, I need to move on.

Aww I am sorry you didn't enjoy that one. Onward I guess, right?

Yep! My TBR is so long that I have learned to stop reading once it’s clear the book won’t work for me.

Abigail wrote: "Yep! My TBR is so long that I have learned to stop reading once it’s clear the book won’t work for me."

I was talking about this to a friend - we both decided once we crossed our half century that life was too short to carry on reading a book we weren't enjoying.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks! 🤣

I have a ton of unfinished books too. I still have to learn to review them as DNF... I keep thinking I'll get back to them one day

Abigail wrote: "I’m afraid Captive Hearts: A Persuasion Variation was a DNF for me. Way too many errors of language and manners for me to get into the story. I was hoping for an account of Anne Ell..."

im sorry it didnt work out for you. ive never read it and now i can take it off my tbr pile. why dont you try the other bennet sister? :)

Thanks for the suggestion, Patricia! I’ve heard good things about that one and it has been on my shelf too long.

Finished Unexpected Harvest! Only my second Cat Andrews and I really love what she does with modern P&P retellings. This one had creative gender reversals so the Bennets were rich and the Darcys and Bingleys were small town. I really love the emotional twists and turns, but also attention to backdrop and setting.

Thanks for the pick, Craftyhj!

I'm glad you enjoyed it Sophia. I am saving Dance the Tide for a reward after my seasonal work overload comes to an end a week before Christmas. I want to be able to savour it rather than reading in little bits.

Sam wrote: "Kirk - I will let you get to volume 2 sooner than later ;)
"

Thanks again!!! Twas enjoyable. Perhaps too much build up but a strange and wild several ending chapters. 4.5ish.

Craftyhj wrote: "I'm glad you enjoyed it Sophia. I am saving Dance the Tide for a reward after my seasonal work overload comes to an end a week before Christmas. I want to be able to savour it rather than reading i..."

Good plan. It would be hard to keep picking it up and putting it down during holiday rush time for your work projects especially certain sections of the story.

Kirk wrote: "Sam wrote: "Kirk - I will let you get to volume 2 sooner than later ;)
"

Thanks again!!! Twas enjoyable. Perhaps too much build up but a strange and w..."

Glad you enjoyed it!

I’ve finished my challenge - rereading Mistaken by Jessie Lewis.

I loved it just as much as the first time and I had forgotten just how witty it is. Thanks for the challenge Abigail.

Always nice to revisit a favorite!

Got through my Volume 2 of Propriety. I liked it, but it did seem to drag a bit. Definitely an investment read.