Hello everybody, and happy November! I hope you enjoyed Halloween (if you celebrate it). We don't celebrate it really. Sometimes we carve some pumpkins, but that's about it. However, I was celebrating yesterday, because I had a training course that I finally finished off. I had been working so hard on it during October, it took up nearly all of my free time. So what did I read last month? Diddly squat :( Well that's not entirely true, I did reread some short stories in the
Holidays with Jane Christmas Cheer anthology, but I didn't have enough time to read anything new. A reread I can pick up and put down and just read bits of, unlike a new story.
So, what do I have planned for November? A huge amount of catching up! I am hopeful that I will get chance to read it all, but you know me, I am often overly optimistic! So instead of telling you about all of the infeasible amount that I have planned, I will just highlight a couple of things.
One of my reads for this month will be a book focusing on one of my favourite secondary characters, from 'Pride & Prejudice'. '
Colonel Fitzwilliam and the Countess of Sainte Toulours'. Here we will see the Colonel on-duty and abroad. I'm really looking forward to reading this book, which is by an author I've been meaning to read for a long time, Stanley Michael Hurd, the writer of the 3 book '
Darcy's Tale' series showing 'Pride & Prejudice' from Mr Darcy's point of view. Stanley is also kindly offering a giveaway of the book, so look out for that.
I will be taking part in the blog tour for '
Longbourn's Songbird', written by Beau North. This book is 'Pride & Prejudice'-inspired and set in South Carolina, in the late 1940s. I enjoy reading versions set in different periods; often things will either be set in the same time as P&P or in the current day, so it'll be interesting to read one set in a period that I'm not as familiar with.
If I have time, I'd like to read the newest '
Holidays with Jane: Trick or Sweet'. If you don't know, this is an anthology. There are six different authors, (Jennifer Becton, Melissa Buell, Rebecca M Fleming, Cecilia Gray, Jessica Grey and Kimberley Truesdale) and each one has written a modern short story linked to a different one of Austen's main 6 novels. The 'Trick or Sweet' edition has stories themed around this time of year, Halloween, mainly I think, so it'd be good if I could fit in something seasonal. We'll see how it goes.
I hope you get some good reading in this month. What do you have planned?
very interested in reading the Colonel Fitzwilliam book
ReplyDeleteYes, I haven't read many books focusing on the Colonel, so it was good to read.
DeleteI have Longbourn's Songbird for review. Then I got Holidays With Jane Trick or Treat and Mr. Darcy's Christmas Calendar from sales and won a copy of A Jane Austen Christmas so those will probably be my next reads. Definitely that will keep me busy this month.
ReplyDeleteOh, I do wish to read the Colonel Fitzwilliam book, too. Look forward to your thoughts on that.
And yay for finishing your training course!!!!
DeleteYou are not wrong, Sophia, YAY indeed! Hope you enjoyed all your reading. I read the first short story in Holidays with Jane but didn't get to the others. And since it's a themed anthology now I don't know whether I should keep it till next year!
DeleteJust finished reading Longbourn's Songbird and loved it. I am on to figure out what is next on my reading schedule. Interested in reading Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam book that is posted. I loved the one about the Three Colonels.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the Three Colonels, but I've been meaning to for so long. My poor kindle is just full of gems!
DeleteI definitely plan to read Stanley's book. I loved his Trilogy, Darcy's Tale. And I did read and post a review on Longbourn's Songbird. It had some surprises. And just read The Last Waltz - very poignant! Have to post a review.
ReplyDeleteI have The Last Waltz on my wish list, though goodness knows when or if I'll ever get to it!
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