Your enthusiasm and passion for reading simply oozed from this video; it’s contagious! Time is a crafty devil that sneaks by without us discerning it passing, but what astonished me most was your ability to do a synopsis of these ten novels like you read them yesterday. Thanks, Katie, for another entertaining, informative, and useful video for all booklovers.

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Thanks very much, Larry :)

HAPPY Victober!!! 🎉 🥳 🩷 I started The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins this morning! 🙂

Out of this list you've really made me put Olive, Hester, Romance of the Shop and Jill on my Victorian Bucket List TBR.

I am so happy Victober has started! I am looking up all of these books to make sure I own them. And I totally empathize with your problem choosing just one Trollope!

I love that most of these you read in previous Victobers

Love this! And please do a video of the favourite Anthony Trollope novels. I am in the process of reading all of his novels too :)

Have been watching your videos everyday since august. I'm so happy to find your channel. Also started Victober, my first time and i picked up Wuthering Heights.🥰🥰🥰

Katie, you are a treasure trove for the TBR

It’s great to be with you for another Victober! Thank you for carrying on the tradition!!💐💖🤗📚

I liked the idea of all your favourites! I'm starting Victober with finishing Mugby Junction, going on to Charlotte Bronte's The Professor, then The Daisy Chain (Charlotte M Yonge - new author). Definitely fitting in Women Who Did. Hopefully more after that!

Happy Victober! I've started my morning with a bit of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 😊 Great list, and a great way to start the month 📚

This was fun and reminds me Hester and Deerbrook must be a priority next year.

Happy Victober! Will join by re-reading Wuthering Heights. Lost count of the number of times I've read it, but it's been too long since the last time. Just like with Jane Austen July I may not complete all the challenges , but it always makes me pick up at least one book I've been meaning to read. Perhaps I'll even read something by Dickens or Eliot too, two of my favourite Victorian authors.

Katie, I love your excitement for victorian literature. Some great recommendations for people new to this literature like me . I have not read any of them, although reading Anthony Trollope this year with victober very daunting.

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Don't feel daunted by Anthony Trollope. He's great :)

Happy Victober!!!📚❤

I just bought the vicar of bulhampton so I’m super glad it’s on your list. I loved David copperfield and lady audleys secret soo much 😊

Read Oliver T. when I was just a child. My mother gave it to me. It was such a horror from a perspective of the fellow child that I remember still those impressions.

I simply love all your videos

@katiejlumsden

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much :)

These all sound great and I might have to check them out.

Happy Victober! So many great recommendations, thank you 😊

Ayyyy a new video I love it ❤❤❤

I love that these are all books I haven’t read yet so lots to look forward to! Completely understand the Trollope problem Katie - how to pick favorites with so many goodies to choose from ?! 🤔

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

So true!

Thank you, I put two down on my TBR: Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and The Vicar of Bullhampton, Anthony Trollope. I have to confess Anthony Trollope is new to me but from all the fans of him on KZread, he is most of my reads this month. My list for the last 5 years (they are re-reads); Jane Eyre Around the world in 80 days Little Women The Tenet of Wildfeld Hall The Time Machine Agnes Grey But this year for my first Victober they are all new. I am looking forward to it.

This was so lovely!

Hey Kate - I'd like to wish you luck with your Trollope project. I, myself, wanted to do something similar with the works of Honore de Balzac. I made good progress before being sidetracked in Proust and Hugo and quite frankly don't expect to finish. And so, it seems proper again wishing you good luck, deriving some vicarious satisfaction.

Started Hester pre dawn hours this morning.. loving it 💕Thank you for all the recommendations over the years.. you've without a doubt exposed expanded & thoroughly enriched my reading life (your old Bleak House read along videos are *so* brilliant & am currently enjoying) 🤓💝 Happy Victober Katie! 😊

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Glad you're enjoying Hester! And that is great to know - glad those old Bleak House videos go to some use!

So great to see your list, Katie! As it so happens I am 400 pages into East Lynne and enjoying it very much. I have Olive and Deerbrook waiting in the wings. It is going to be a great Victober! :) I am also wondering if you have read any of the novels written by Trollope's mother, Fanny(Frances)? I saw some of her books on eBay and AbeBooks, among other places, and I am tempted to give one a try.

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Oh great, I hope you enjoy those three :) I have read both Widow Barnaby and Michael Armstrong by Frances Trollope, and I really enjoyed both.

I NEED to know the Trollope titles omitted from this list! 😂

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

I think I said there were 8 Anthony Trollopes, but here are 10 instead :) 1. Nina Balatka 2. The Three Clerks 3. Orley Farm 4. An Old Man’s Love 5. Lady Anna 6. The Claverings 7. The Belton Estate 8. The American Senator 9. The Duke’s Children 10. The Prime Minister

You're a speed speaker!

Clicked to see if Mrs. Henry Wood would make the cut...aaaand she does, East Lynne, how not? "Dead! dead and never called me mother!" ( yes, I know this famous line only comes in the dramatisation, but it's so characteristic...)

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Such a good book!

What a great video to breakfast with on the first day of #victober. Happy #victober to you and everyone else. Such great suggestions, none of which I have read but all now added to my tar.

Great video, lots of new books to explore for me….but…..no Dickens ❓🧡🍁😉

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Because these were my favourite new-to-me Victorian books of the last five years! And I haven't read a new-to-me Dickens novel for a long, long time. It's been 12 years or more since they were anything but glorious rereads to me :)

@jodihowe7274

8 ай бұрын

Of course Katie! Is there a new-to-you Dickens (retorical questions) thanks again for the new book recommendations!@@katiejlumsden

Love it ❤

Thanks!

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I still need to read Deerbrook! I read her Feats on the Fiord earlier this summer and I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through the second volume of History of England During the Thirty Years Peace. I hadn't realized Penguin came out with an edition of that one. That's pretty cool!

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

I really need to read more by Harriet Martineau! Yes, annoyingly, though, the Penguin edition of Deerbrook is only on ebook - I'm not actually sure if they ever made a physical edition of it, or just released an ebook.

00:10 What’s the background to the three note ditty? (D - F - Bb) D - Books F - and Bb - Things ?

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

So, Bb major is just my favourite chord, and I like the progression of D, F, then Bb, because for the first two chords it could be D minor, if it ends in A, but then it actually ends in Bb and turns into a major chord.

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8 female authors out of 10 favorite books! ❤

@katiejlumsden

8 ай бұрын

I guess if I'd included all of the Anthony Trollope books, it would have been 50:50!

@kathleencraine7335

8 ай бұрын

@@katiejlumsden Me too! Right now I'm re-reading The Golden Lion of Granpere before I tackle Morrison's A Child of the Jago--my "new-to-me" author selection.