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Changing my Doctor Who book from #adaptedforsmallscreen to #hopepunknovel as I was struggling with the prompt and Doctor Who is listed as an example of the genre. Sanditon is replacing it for #adaptedforsmallscreen.

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While this wasn‘t completed by Jane Austen, the author who did made a fantastic effort to provide this with Austenesque ending. Bravo “Another Lady”! This also helped close out another #Pantone2022 color prompt. #SnowWhite.

The last book Austen started and never got to finish.

It begins with the Parkers having an accident and being in recovery at the Heywoods. To pay thanks to the help they receive, the Parkets bring the oldest of the Heywood‘s daughter, Charlotte, with them to Sanditon.

Sanditon is a new recreational city that Mr Parker is having build.

So far it‘s about health and sickness, and hypochondriacs. About class and fortunes.

Sorry, but this one isn't my cup of tea! 😂

Something has usually happened by now in Jane's novels, this one takes forever to introduce the love plot!

2 3/4 stars, as it's getting slightly interesting when it cuts off!

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What an auspicious beginning! It's a shame Jane Austen was unable to finish her tale of Charlotte Heywood and the community of Sanditon 😔 It has all the perfect ingredients and even in the short 12 chapters that exist, she already established her wit and insight into the silliness of human beings. I don't know if I want to read any of the various completed versions or not 🤔. I'll have to give that more thought. #pemberlittens @sprainedbrain

In Ch. 1 of Sanditon, we meet Mr. and Mrs. Parker who are in a minor carriage accident and also who are in the wrong “Willingden”. Mr. Heywood offers to help since Mr. Parker has an ankle injury, and we learn the Parkers are from Sanditon, a resort town not too far from London, which is much better than Brinshore! I felt a bit bad for Mrs. Parker who really couldn‘t get a word in edgewise lol. #Pemberlittens

I saw Sanditon (the unfinished version) by Jane Austen in the #hoopla bonus borrows for May so I thought I might as well read it. Too bad that Austen died before finishing it! Some of the characters are very strong as drawn, and I'm not sure it was obviously heading where others have taken it (but I have enjoyed at least one of those versions.) I love the upper class and all their ailments....

My supreme escapist-comfort-luxury-movie-watching break setup.
Armchair? Check.
Ottoman? Check.
Surface for mug nearby? Check.
Screen at eye level? Check.
Ice cream in mug? Woooot!

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Ultimately, Sanditon reads like what it is: a first draft of an incomplete novel. There‘s enough of Austen‘s natural talent there to make it worth reading, but also enough to bum you out – it is terribly, terribly sad that this work will forever remain unfinished. Still, I appreciated this little window into Austen‘s mind and the opportunity to wonder what could've been. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/sanditon-jane-austen/

When you go to a fun bookstore and stuck to a theme #JaneAusten #pemberlittens

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Charlotte goes on vacation to the port town of Sanditon!

Austen‘s last novel she worked on before her death.

Ever since I saw the series earlier this year, I wanted to know how much was based on Sanditon and how much was the producers imagination. Austen managed to write 60p and in one way I‘m surprised by how much of the characters Austen manage to establish in those pages. There isn‘t much of a plot and our heroine Charlotte just makes it to Sanditon and is introduced to its people. One can only imagine what direction Austen would have taken the story.

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?Finished Little Women
?Read Visitation
?Read the book by Høyer
?Read Frozen
?Starting Sandition tonight

? Still listening to the third Department Q book

I‘ve just finished watching the TV series of Sanditon. Now, I‘m curious to find out how much of this was in her unfinished material and how much was the writers/ producers imagination.

I bought the Penguin Clothbound Classic after I saw a Litten post the cover, and I loved it. So now I hope to get to the book soon(ish).

I've watched the first few episodes of the new adaptation on PBS, so I took time today to read the source material. I wanted to know just how much there was for the show to be based on. It's really only the introduction of the characters, but it does make me curious to see where Austen herself would have taken the story. Now I can watch the show knowing that other than the basic set up, it is a new story.

I‘m sure I‘ve read the novel fragment (though I don‘t remember much) but I loathe the show. As background, I loved Cranford, P&P, Forsyte Saga, Poldark, Bleak House, and North and South. I feel manipulated and the whole thing just seems silly and tawdry. Theo James appeared naked in front of the heroine (in lieu of chemistry) and I was like, oh puh-leeez. Austen meets PG Game of Thrones. Someone must have agreed, because they tanked it.

Christmas gift from my husband. I admit that I desperately wanted this edition because of the umbrellas on the cover. I‘m waiting to start the PBS series until I‘ve finished.

Finished the 11 and a half chapters of Jane Austen‘s unfinished novel; watching the mini-series right now!

Reading Austen‘s unfinished novel, Sanditon, makes me sad all over again that she died so young. I wonder how the PBS series will end it? (This is the dust jacket on my edition.)

The cover and end papers on my tiny edition make it worth the small print!

Anyone planning to watch Sanditon tonight on PBS? I‘m quite excited and hope it does well! 😊 not technically book related but sort of 🤷🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️😂

I'm a Bad Janeite. I have never read this last work of Jane Austen. In just these few Chapters you can see the Brilliance of what could have been. Awesome Audible version.

The start of a new year - 2020!

Looking forward to seeing the eight episode PBS Masterpiece mini-series starting on January 12!

I‘m looking forward to seeing this adaptation!

Any other Janeites with me?

Hopefully, you read or are rereading Sanditon to be ready for January 12th!

I always feel so sad reading Jane Austen's last work. But her sharpness of wit survived to the end, because even as her health was failing she still had the humour to poke fun at the hypochondriacs who found their way to English bathing resorts, and whom she must have encountered in number during her time living in Bath and visiting Lyme Regis. A bold sense of the ridiculous was a part of Jane Austen's genius and, it seems, it never left her.

Pretty good even though Jane Austen only wrote 11 chapters.

Oxford University Press was kind enough to send me their new edition for review, and it casts new light on Sanditon and Austen's body of work leading up to her final, unfinished manuscript. It has a well-researched author bio, a note on the text, full chronology, and generous explanatory notes. A wonderful, fresh take on Austen's most experimental and poignant work! A full review was sent to subscribers at http://www.keepingupwiththepenguins.com