Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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I'm looking forward to a lovely mix of Austen inspired reading plus some new and classic fiction in translation.
Discord links:
Reading the Globe discord.gg/7cJNH2bHBF
Jane Austen July discord.gg/7xquWesup5
Endless Drama discord.gg/KSVmK4JazC

0:00 Intro and looking ahead to August reading events Faulkner in August, GarbAugust and Women in Translation Month
2:38 Reading the Globe August books Reckless by Cornelia Funke and Old Kiln by Jia Pingwa with Katja @PageTurnersWithKatja and Jack @spreadbookjoy Big Book Summer hosted by and others
3:49 Jane Austen July hosted by Katie @katiejlumsden Marissa @BlatantlyBookish Claudia @SpinstersLibrary: Emma and Austen's letters
7:45 This Motherless Land by Nikki May and The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
11:28 Nonfiction for Jane Austen July: Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney, What Jane Austen's Characters Read and Why by Susan Allen Ford, Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane
15:40 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa translated by Eric Ozawa
16:25 Standing Heavy by GauZ translated by Frank Wynne
17:56 God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène translated by Francis Price
19:04 Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz translated by William Maynard Hutchins
20:14 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov for Endless Drama led by Angelia @readandre-read
21:14 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and closing ramble.