Happy September, friends! I can’t believe we are already in a new month and that summer is winding to a close! Hopefully it will still be summer like weather here in North Carolina! I’m not ready to say goodbye!
So how did we spend our last days of August?
By exploring a new city – Charleston, South Carolina!
We saw a lot of charming houses, beautiful trees (especially palmettos and oaks!), and learned a lot of Charleston history!
Rainbow Row
Boone Hall Plantation
Angel Oak Tree
And…would you believe we found Jane Austen in Charleston?!?
Well, sort’ve…(technically we found things that made me think of Jane Austen!)
Didn’t find the Captain or Anne on Wentworth Street, but I believe they sailed to Charleston in 1823 and the town obligingly named a street after them!*
And this charming restaurant near the beach named “The Obstinate Daughter?” I’m pretty sure the great Lady Catherine de Bourgh was patroness of this establishment and had it named for her daughter, Anne, who obstinately refused to marry any prospective suitors her mother introduced!*
*Completely made up fabrications of an obsessed Janeite.
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Want to know what Austenesque fun I’m getting into this month?
…here is what’s on this month’s
Austenesque Agenda:
~ TO REVIEW ~
~ TO REREAD ~
Read it years ago, reading it again before reading it’s newly published sequel!
~ TO READ AND REVIEW ~
~ TO REREAD AND REVIEW ~
Hosting a group read in a few weeks! See details below!
~ FEATURED AUTHORS VISITING THIS MONTH ~
Victoria Kincaid – September 7th
Pamela Lynne – September 14th
Syrie James – September 25th
~ SPECIAL EVENT THIS MONTH ~
We are hosting a group read to celebrate Austenesque Reviews turning 7 this month! Interested in joining, click the image for more details!
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And so that’s what I have going on in September! It should keep me pretty busy!
What are you up to this month?
I’ve heard Charleston is lovely, with many layers of history. Hope to visit someday! Thanks for sharing the pictures–especially the Austen associations! Looking forward to the group read later in the month.
It is, Abigail! We learned so much but I know there is a lot more to learn as well! I hope you get to visit one day. It is beautiful! LOL! Glad you liked my Austen associations! 🙂
Great pictures of your vacation. We visited there many years ago and I am looking forward to going back again one day.
I love your line-up for the fall too. Happy reading, Meredith!
Thank you, Claudine! I definitely hope to return again soon too! 🙂 Hope you have a great month as well!
Great photos and I loved your surmising on the Austen connection! 😉
Good luck with all the reading you have lined up and the special group read of Syrie’s novel! Loved that story!
Thank you, Cass! I’m very excited about this month’s reads! 😉 And it will be great to reread a couple favorites again!
Looks like a gorgeous trip. I hope to one day visit.
All good reads you’ve got listed this month. Enjoy!
Thanks, Christina! It was fun exploring a new place! Hope you have a lovely September!
You’ve inspired me to visit – thank you!!!!
Lovely! I’m sure you will enjoy it! 🙂
I’m off to Bath on Friday for a few days with my daughters. We’re attending a country ball on the Saturday night. Can’t wait. I’m also looking forward to the group read here this month. Have had this book for a while and now I’ll get to read it.
That sounds like so much fun, Teresa! Enjoy the time with your daughters and I hope you dance the whole time! 😉 So excited you will join our group read! Can’t wait! 🙂
Charleston is so elegant! What an amazing bridge! And the first house seems one of “Gone with the wind”. I would have taken a photo of “Wentworth street ” too 🙂
Your agenda is very promising : Rainy days, Family portraits. ..I’m looking forward to reading your reviews!
I’m so glad you enjoyed my pictures, Teresa! I wish I had taken more, but it’s hard when you are trying to see all the sites and enjoy them. 🙂 I’m glad you are interested in the books I have on this month’s agenda!
I dearly want to see Charleston before I die! Loved the oak tree! Definitely have lots of books on this month that I want to read, so I can’t wait to hear what you think.
You should definitely plan a visit, Brenda! I heard fall and spring visits are even better because it isn’t too hot or too crowded! 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by!
Love the pics of your trip, Meredith. I may never get to those places but it’s lovely to see them through your eyes.
I always smile when I come across a street sign or something that reminds me of Austen. I’ve actually driven along a Gracechurch Street, but not in London, seen a house called Netherfield House (not Park, though) and come across many Austen related names in the course of my work, including an Emma Willoughby who lived on Woodhouse Crescent!
Of your planned reading, I’ve had the great pleasure to beta for Joy King, Victoria Kincaid and Pamela Lynne on their books (still can’t quite believe that this happens and feel greatly honoured when they ask). I read, and adored, Rainy Days for the first time this year and Rainbow Promises is on the ever increasing TBR list. I loved Cass Grafton’s and Ada Bright’s book – definitely a different type of JAFF. Once you’ve read it, you’ll certainly have to agree that there must be a sequel.
Would love to join you for the group read, but with everything else that’s happening right now and the fact that Amazon UK don’t seem to have it on their Kindle store, I’ll have to pass this time. Syrie James’ books are always excellent so I hope to be able to read it one day.
Thank you, Anji! I love travel pictures – whether they are mine or someone else’s! It is my favorite kind of souvenir too! 🙂
Isn’t it fun to find Jane Austen name and connections? I always wonder if the creation of them came from a Jane Austen fan or admirer. That is too amazing about a person named Emma Willoughby who lived on Woodhouse Crescent! I sincerely hope she has read Jane Austen! 🙂
That’s awesome that you beta-read so many books on my list! I’m sure you are asked because you are very good at it! 😀 Hope you enjoy some more great reads this month and that your back is doing better!
Looks like a wonderful trip — would you believe we’ve been living in South Carolina for over eleven years and have never been to Charleston, or anywhere in the Low Country? (To be fair, we live in the complete opposite side of the state.) Yes, it’s definitely on my bucket list. Exciting agenda … looking forward to some good reading about good reading. A few of your choices are definitely on my Must-Read list (and queued on my kindle). A local “Austen connection” is a (female) neighbour named Darcy!
LOL! I say the same things about places in North Carolina! I’ve been here 12 years and haven’t been to the Outer Banks or Asheville (pretty much haven’t been to mountains, period!) Hope you get to Charleston soon, my friend! Glad you are interested in many of my planned reads this month! 🙂
Lovely photos. What a picturesque place! My plans for September? Well I will be visiting my twin grandsons in hospital and waiting impatiently for them to be big enough to go home so I can cuddle them. (They were born at 30 weeks but are doing really well so hopefully not too long) I really think you will enjoy Lory’s sequel to Rainy Days and ‘re-reading that is definitely no hardship! :). I am looking forward to the release of Family Portraits by Pamela Lynne as I love Dearest Friends. Happy Reading! 🙂 🙂
Thank you, Glynis! It was very beautiful and charming! Oh yay for the new gandsons! I’m glad to hear they are doing well and yes, hopefully they will be coming home soon! Enjoy those cuddles!!!
Yes, I’m definitely enjoying the reread! It is great refresh my memory on everything. I adore Becky Gardiner! 😉 I can’t wait to read Family Portraits, Dearest Friends was definitely a fave!! Hope you have a lovely month!
Charleston does look lovely and I’ve heard good things from people who’ve been. Neat Austen connections. Glad I’m not the only one who does that. 😉
You’ve got some good books coming up. I am hoping I can do the read along for Syrie’s book since that is one I haven’t read yet. And, I, too, need to get a re-read in of Rainy Days so I can read the sequel.
Right now, I’m getting ready for Haunting Mr. Darcy and hopefully a few other ‘spooky’ reads.
Hi Sophia! Are you back from your travels? I hope you had fun! Charleston is lovely, I can’t wait to go back again!
Would love to have you join in the group read if you can! I know you will love Haunting Mr. Darcy – it was such a fantastic read!
I loved the pics. The really funny thing is I have had a friend from Puyallup there as well. Some of the same photos. I hope to go see it some day.
LOL! That’s a funny coincidence! 🙂 Hope you get to travel there, my friend! I think you would love it! Can you believe it is 3 years ago last week that I came to Washington and met you!?!
I love Charleston! We took a family vacation there about five years ago. We toured the battleship, visited one of the plantations, swam in the ocean, and ATE. It’s one of my all-time favorite destinations and I am so pleased you and Mr. B enjoyed yourselves. I’m looking forward to my visit next week. Thanks so much!!
It was our first time there, hopefully first of many! We still have so much we want to do and explore. I think my favorite thing we did was the horse carriage tour, we learned sooooo much! Can’t wait to have you visit Austenesque Reviews again, Pamela! Greatly looking forward to it! 🙂
I’m glad you had such a lovely month, Meredith! And thanks -as always- for sharing your pictures! I would have liked to see your face when you found those Austenesque things! 😀 Charleston sounds beautiful and if I ever go to the US I’d love to visit. Have fun with your reads this month! I’ll try to join the group read! 😉
Thank you, Maria! I’m glad you enjoyed the pictures. I loved finding ways to think of Jane Austen. I really wanted to try eating at The Obstinate Daughter but neither of us were hungry when we found it and it was a bit far from our hotel. Hope you have a great month my friend and can pop in for some of the group read!
looks like a lovely visit; I was there in March. Lot of wonderful books on the horizon.
denise
Awesome, Denise! I heard that is a great month to go visit because everything is in full bloom and not so many tourists!
Thanks for the armchair travel! 🙂 Charleston looks beautiful, and I love your Janeite finds. 🙂 Happy reading!