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Thank you for your amazing answers to this tag!!! I too began reading Austen with the same 3 novels: P&P, S&S and Emma. My favorite was Emma, until the 1995 P&P series came out. What fun it was to re-read it while watching the series......my favorite Austen became and still is, Pride and Prejudice. Do you ever re-read (or read for the first time) novels while watching a mini series?

I have never read Faulkner! This sounds like a great place to start.

Very very well done Hannah! Blessing to you......

It is a reflection of the culture at that time. I think its very important to know of our past culture in America. Imagine censoring Gone With The Wind and Mockingbird. Huckleberry Finn Uncle Tom’s Cabin we need to know how people were treated and the culture back then.

Hannah you are fantastic. I fell smarter just watching your video. So many good ideas. I am reading The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain by Jan Mortimer. Have you read it?

Garcia Marquez convinced me to read "As I Lay Dying." As you probably know it was an important book for him. I think Faulkner's influence abroad is probably greater than any other 20th century american writer. "Sanctuary" was the first Faulkner book I read and stylistically is "reader friendly" unlike his other books. I've been searching for Jorge Luis Borges translation of Wild Palms. Apparently that translation had a huge impact on Latin American writers who read it. I once saw it on ebay but the seller was asking hundreds of dollars for it.

what? You efficiently combine a tag with two readathons?!! This is genius. I love that Jane Austen went to art exhibitions, looking for what would be appropriate portraits of her fictional characters. It shows how she had the same intense personal vision as she wrote that a reader brings to films of favourite books, with anguished cries of "But that's not how she is! she is this height, with this colour hair and eyes...." Regarding the BBC series - there is a programme on BBC still of Andrew Davies telling about how he wrote the adaptation and confessing that (like myself) if he comes upon the TV series airing, he will stop to watch "just one little scene" and find himself watching the whole episode.

Hannah, this is such a wonderful version of Gavin’s tag! Well done! 🥰

The 1995 mini series of Pride and Prejudice is by far my most favourite adaption of any book! I can watch it again and again!❤

Funny, I looked down the prompts and saw the yellow reference and thought of Jane Austen seeing Mrs Bingley in a portrait, I think that reference was in the introduction of my mother's copy of 'Pride and Prejudice.' then you mentioned it. I should definitely get two numbers towards Bingo!

What a fun mash-up! Great answers.

Wonderful book!

Nancy Drew was a great series 👍Really enjoyed your responses and video. First anniversaries after loosing a loved one are challenging, take good care of yourself.

"Persuasion" is my favorite Austen. I am currently reading "Emma" for Jane Austen July. I never read it before, or maybe I did as Portuguese translation a long time ago, as there was a copy on my uncle's shelves, but I don't remember. I am having some very good laughs. My favorite mini-series of Pride and Prejudice is the same as yours.

Bingo! 😁

Thanks for the tag. I will try to answer with all French books…

A Jane edition! Excellent! I agree about the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries. It's one of my all time favorite book adaptations.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a middle-aged man in full Lycra suit, must be in want of a bike.” Thanks for doing this tag, and for your glorious spin on it!

Ha! Hannah I will definitely take on the challenge and even add some more!

I would love to participate please.

I'm probably full up on reading plans but AILD is a good one. I remember reading it on the subway as I sat commuting. Btw, the ad that YT showed before this video was some kind of testosterone drenched workout plan expressly for men who earn more than $150k. Probably the most un-Hanna'sBooks ad imaginable.

How exciting. I’m down for this! It’s been years since I read it. Can;t wait to reread.

Haven’t clicked on a video so quickly in a while. I read this novel for the first time earlier this year too, and also watched both film adaptations (I prefer the Coen brothers’ version). I loved Mattie, and all of the characters really. It was one of those novels where even the side characters who aren’t in it for very long feel extremely real and sympathetic. The sense of humor stood out too. It felt like a student of Samuel Beckett turned his eye on the Old West. I would agree that Mattie doesn’t really change, but I thought that was a strength. I thought it showed that revenge, and the environment of the often violent Old West, don’t facilitate personal growth. To my mind this fits with the somewhat comical ending where Mattie just barely misses seeing Rooster for the first time in years at the end of the story. As always, I loved your discussion of this book. 🤓

I really enjoyed "True Grit". I am currently reading the Fandorin mysteries by Boris Akunin. He follows the Madonna vs Whore model of female characters which is unfortunate because I love the rest of his stories.

I’ll be there! Thanks, Hannah.

That thumbnail is brilliant Hannah.