I’m reading Jane Austen this month! Join me!

I’ll be reading in publication order and following each book with its adaptations (linked below)…and vlogging it all. Follow on Instagram Stories for daily updates: https://www.instagram.com/taraswiger/

I realized after I recorded that this qualifies for the Backlist Readathon too!

LINKS:

My set of cloth bound Austen’s complete works: https://amzn.to/2wjn32E
Jane Austen: a Life by Claire Tomalin: https://amzn.to/2I8xCZ9
Publication order of Jane Austen: http://jasna.org/austen/works/
Jane Austen fandom: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pride-and-prejudice-of-online-fan-culture/

ADAPTATIONS:

Sense & Sensibility (movie with Emma Thompson) https://amzn.to/2whVyGS
Sense & Sensibility (BBC mini-series) https://amzn.to/38aw4IA
Pride & Prejudice BBC mini series (aka, the best thing ever) https://amzn.to/2TfWu7G
Northanger Abby: https://amzn.to/2TfMP0M
Mansfield Park (2011 movie) https://amzn.to/38cOAQr
The brand-new Emma: https://amzn.to/2TcFA9M
Emma (with Gwyneth Paltrow) https://amzn.to/39j0udc
Persuasion (BBC) https://amzn.to/39iEW07
Persuasion (movie) https://amzn.to/2Tv298F

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Planning a weird week full of work travel, in my classic Amy Tangerine Happy Planner.
I started by listing and scheduling everything in my mini dashboard happy Planner and then moved to my Classic.

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A week of reading with the #contemporaryathon!

I read:
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough

How about you?

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This week I’m joining the #contemporaryathon & the #blacklitchallenge!

Here’s the announcement and challenges for #blacklitchallenge: https://youtu.be/jqI5BRPBsqE

Announcement for Contemporaryathon: https://youtu.be/LC9V1vshvYo
My beloved BookTuber, BooksandLala: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmT3…

What are you reading this week?

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Planning a week full of foster care appointments, using my Be Happy Box Amy Tangerine Classic planner & my Supermom accessory pack.

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I'm participating in the Read Harder Challenge and the Reading Women Challenge. I also want to read my new collection of every Jane Austen novel.
Wanna join me? When should we do it?

Also thinking about re-reading my childhood favorites, like Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie…and Jeanette Oke.
Want to join me? What would be on your list?

LINKS:
Read Harder Challenge video here: https://www.facebook.com/TaraSwigerPa…
Reading Women Challenge: https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/reading-women-challenge-2020
Women's Prize for Fiction: https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/
Jane Austen biography: https://amzn.to/309gM4j
Booksandlala Reading Childhood favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
Love Comes Softly, by Jeannette Oke: https://amzn.to/36D6V9v
Brock and Bodie Theone – these are the books I remember reading as a teenager, I don't know if Adult Tara can endorse them: https://amzn.to/2s9bM38

Note: I mispronounced Jeannete Oke! (it's “oak”) and I said “Brodie” when it's BODIE.

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My fave books of 2019 in no particular order:

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor: https://amzn.to/36JajQ2
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb: https://amzn.to/2FzDYzk
Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo: https://amzn.to/39YUE1l
The Inspector Gamache series by Louis Penny: https://amzn.to/37UuOJO
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager: https://amzn.to/30aCZio
Stolen Things by R.H. Herron: https://amzn.to/37VxF5n (@Rachael Herron )
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire: https://amzn.to/2Ta3pzp
Illuminae by Aime Kaufman: https://amzn.to/2FEcJ6I
Station Eleven by Hilary St John Mandel: https://amzn.to/2FDsoU4

My stats:
Total books: 137 books
Total pages: 36, 666
Shortest: The Gruffulo
longest: Illuminae by Aime Kauffman

What genre:
Thriller/Mystery – 49
Non-fiction/memoir/crafting – 35
Sci-fi/Fantasy – 14
Parenting – 7

See all of the books here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/1342105

What did you love in 2019?

I’m using 2 planners daily – a classic vertical layout and a mini horizontal layout- and one for memory keeping (weekly), one as a goal-setting notebook and review, and one as a recipe keeper.

What planners are you using?

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I’ve been using a Happy Planner to plan my business and foster mom life for nearly a year! Here’s a look at every single week (including my slip-ups and skipped weeks)!

I started with a vertical Big Happy Planner, changed to the Dashboard layout then changed to the Classic Vertical Happy Planner and found my flow!

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Here are my plans for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge.

** I'm likely to read this book.
+ I read it and loved it.

1. Read a YA nonfiction book
**The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by John Hendrix: https://amzn.to/2RUltNz

2. Read a retelling of a classic by an author of color
+Beloved by Toni Morrison: https://amzn.to/2Z4g0W5
-Blade so Black, by LL McKinney: https://amzn.to/36HVdKu
-Pride Prejudice and other flavors by Sonali Dev: https://amzn.to/35r6T3S
-Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaludin: https://amzn.to/38M22MI

3. Read a mystery where the victims not a woman
+Brutal Telling by Louis Penny: https://amzn.to/36Eec8D
+The Better Sister by Alastair Burke : https://amzn.to/2PSuLa3
+Witch Elm by Tana French: https://amzn.to/2Z4gBHj
**Murder of Roger Akroyd by Agatha Christie: https://amzn.to/36EeLiL

4. Read a graphic memoir
+Persepolis: https://amzn.to/36HB5rE
+Maus: https://amzn.to/2PNIjDM
+MARBLES, https://amzn.to/34tuq2V
**March: https://amzn.to/2PPwf56

5. Read a book about a natural disaster
+Station Eleven by Emily St John-Mandel: https://amzn.to/2RZHdYq
-Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward: https://amzn.to/2PvIsgl
**Broken Earth Series by NK Jemisin: https://amzn.to/34xQ3iM

6. Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author
**Tennessee Williams: https://amzn.to/2M2RkI9

7. Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII
+Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: https://amzn.to/2PuAfsO
+Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: https://amzn.to/2YYt1QW
+Circe by Madeline Miller: https://amzn.to/35vx0H8
-Water Dancer, by Ta-Nahisi Coates: https://amzn.to/2RZR5Be
-A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum: https://amzn.to/2LZirng

8. Read an audiobook of poetry
**Dog Songs by Mary Oliver: https://amzn.to/38IoYwo

9. Read the LAST book in a series
+Louis Penny: https://amzn.to/2M1Seoe
* Broken Earth Trilogy: https://amzn.to/34xQ3iM

10. Read a book that takes place in a rural setting
+Foe, by Ian Reid: https://amzn.to/38KCmA2
+Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware : https://amzn.to/2PsSM8B
-Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: https://amzn.to/2Pttur9

11. Read a debut novel by a queer author
+An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon: https://amzn.to/38GEj0F
**On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong: https://amzn.to/2PrgnXc

12. Read a memoir by someone from a religious tradition that is not your own
+TroubleMaker by Leah Remini: https://amzn.to/2En95Ob
+Leaving The Saints by Martha Beck: https://amzn.to/2PPZzs6
-Unfollow, by MeganRoper: https://amzn.to/2tpsuf4

13. Read a food book about a cuisine you’ve never tried before
-Notes from a Young Black Chef, by Kwami Onwuachi: https://amzn.to/38N0l1t
-Eating Korea, by Graham Holliday: https://amzn.to/36I1RAo
-Days of Honey: https://amzn.to/38EEVnr

14. Read a romance starring a single parent
+Friday night knitting club by Kate Jacobs: https://amzn.to/38IrGSA
-Fumbled by Alexa Martin: https://amzn.to/2YRAJMD

-Would like to meet, by Rachel Winters https://amzn.to/38KLzZi
-Tempest by Beverly Jenkins (also historical fiction) : https://amzn.to/2PQ1qgy
Find more romances at Smart bitches, trashy books: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/b…

15. Read a book about climate change
+Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver: https://amzn.to/2LZMZWb
**Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimerer: https://amzn.to/2Eqyzdu

16. Read a door-stopper published after 1950, written by a woman
+Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: https://amzn.to/2S0tvV0
+Harry Potter, 4-7: https://amzn.to/2YTNDcQ
+Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: https://amzn.to/2PuAfsO

+Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi: https://amzn.to/2EmLaOJ
+Witch Elm by Tana French: https://amzn.to/2Z4gBHj

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire: https://amzn.to/2M0BYnu
**Life After Life Kate Atkinson: https://amzn.to/38MYz0i

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17. Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages)
+Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire: https://amzn.to/2PNNC6a
**Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez: https://amzn.to/2swWTaL

18. Read a picture book with a human from a marginalized community
+Julian is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love: https://amzn.to/2M1Z25g
-When Charley met Emma: https://amzn.to/2PQaemt

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