My name is Jim and I enjoy the classics. I'm 60, live in New Jersey, am a new subscriber and haven't heard much about Victober (but have heard of Nonfiction November after watching some of abookolive's videos). If 2023 was Victober's eighth year, that means that it started in 2016 and that I have a lot of catching up to do. I look forward to participating in Victober 2024. I've read classics for at least eight years, if not longer. I've read Emma, Persuasion, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, who was actually from the Regency period; A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Story and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. If he wasn't Russian, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, whose The Adolescent I am currently reading, would be Victorian if he was British.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

5 ай бұрын

Hi Jim and welcome 😀 If you enjoy Jane Austen, you should also watch out for Jane Austen July which is another great booktube tradition. It is always very rewarding. I am not a host of that one but I always take part. So glad you have found the booktube community. It is a great place to share the joy of reading and get inspiration and recommendations.

Loved your tag so very much! For your prompt, i did : ▪︎ The Nether World by George Gissing ▪︎ The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy (a lower class girl trying to make it in the upper class society) ▪︎ Shirley by Charlotte Brontë ▪︎ Hard Times by Dickens (in audiobook, since i love listening to Dickens!) ▪︎ Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell (the gentleman impregnating a lower class girl fits, i think) I think i spotted some Folio Society Dickens in the back...I have the very same ones! Huge fan of The Folio Society! I am so glad you were one of the hosts of this year's Victober, since i have now found your amazing channel!

I love this prompt. It forces you to look closely at what you read.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Oh I am so glad you see it like that.

I must admit I tend to choose my books and then shoehorn them into the prompts so thank you for a challenge that make that easier Roz! So looking forward to another Victober!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I was the same Jo. I have to be more diligent now of course.

Victober is always my very favorite time of the year! I love your argument that your prompt is not to much about what book to read but how you approach whatever you pick up. (Honestly, though, I’m having trouble dreaming about autumn reading when we’re staring down a week of temperatures of 97 degrees F. I’m glad I still have a bit of time to plan a list.)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Goodness yes that doesn't match up with a foggy Dickensian London or bracing Bronte moorland. I'm glad you get what I mean about this challenge potentially being a lens to look through. Happy planning.

@StephaniePatterson-jb5it

9 ай бұрын

There are two books about Victorian summer that you might find interesting: Rosemary Ashton's "One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858" and Althea Hayter's "A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846." It was originally publshed decades ago but this edition has an intro by Francesca Wade. I do get your point about autumn reading though. It's sweltering in Philadelphia too.

@HannahsBooks

9 ай бұрын

@@StephaniePatterson-jb5it Excellent! Thank you very much, Stephanie!

Victober is my favourite event of the year. I love Victorian literature. I really could be reading classics for ever. That’s what I like anyway. I love Trollope and I discovered him in a past Victober.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Your classics reading is phenomenol Cristina. I hope a few more people discover Trollope this Victober.

So excited for victober this year!! A great prompt, Ros-you’re so right that you could just about read anything and analyze class in it. It was so present!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I'm excited myself. Love Victober! And yes I was hoping this challenge would make people spot the ubiquity of class in Victorian literature as you say.

Hey, Ros! This is my first visit to your channel. 😊 I came over from Kate Howe’s Victober announcement channel. October will be my FIRST Victober, and I’m excited to participate this year, especially since I haven’t read much Victorian literature. I’m in the process of making my Victober TBR, so I really appreciate your recommendations.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Hope you get a great plan together Kat. If you haven't read much Victorian literature my challenge lends itself to picking one of the big name Victorian novels you probably want get to first.

Thank you for hosting again, Ros! Loved your video full of recommendations! I am hoping to listen to Mary Barton on audiobook for your prompt; it will be my first time reading this Gaskell novel! 🥰📚

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Audio ought to work well for Mary Barton because of the dialogue in dialect.

So fun! Excited for Victober and I love your suggestions.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thanks. Hope you get together an exciting TBR.

Can’t wait for Victober! I will probably start with Trollope. Thanks for the rec!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Happy planning for a glorious Victober.

This looks fabulous. I’m very glad I found your channel 😊. Looking forward to joining in.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Hi Debs. Glad you're here and you may pick up some possibilities for your reading around the world challenge too 😉

Thank you for this loved hearing about the books for victober !! Loved the video this is the first one I watched from you ❤

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

That's lovely to hear Grace.

Thank you for sharing some in-depth thoughts on how to complete your challenge 🥹 I just finished Bleak House and you gave me a new appreciation for it. Really looking forward to Victober 2023!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Very happy to hear you'll be Victobering too.

I am so excited! And loved your recommendations as it's hard to know what's in a book until you read it. I think this might be the year I tackle George Eliot.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

George Eliot is I think my favourite Victorian author. I have read all her novels now. Delighted that you are planning to get stuck in with her.

I’m so excited!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Me too Deea. Could you tell?

Yay for the most wonderful time of the year!! I love your prompt this year! I have a few Charles Dickens that I haven't read yet, so I may choose one of those.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

You can rely on Dickens for social commentary.

Yay Victober!!!! Fifth year for me, and I do love it so!!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Me too 😃

Victober is always such fun. I enjoy the class aspects of Victorian literature and very much enjoyed your recommendations. I love Gaskell for her class commentary and have only read Cranford and North and South. I am currently planning on reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as part of a group read and possibly Lorna Doone which is on my South West Stories TBR. I think that should tie in with your prompt from what I know of the plot.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Definitely does!

Such a great prompt Ros!! And so many recommendations! Cant wait for another Victober :)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Gemma. Lots of possibilities for mine and overlap with others for busy people. I am fascinated by the way Victorian society is revealed in the literature.

Thank you for your joyous video. I plan to join the group read. I am going to also read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Wonderful. I love Anne Bronte so much. And I'm glad my joy about Victober shone through.

It is so lovely that you are a host again this year. Your promt is really interesting and I have some ideas on what to read. I will wait until later in the month to finalize my TBR but I am so excited for the reading and the interesting and fun videos you guys put out during Victober.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Hildur. Look forward to hearing what you pick eventually.

It was so wonderful hearing you unpack your prompt! So many fabulous options. I think it's going to be a simply splendid Victober!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I think so too. Feeling very much enthused today.

I absolutely love your prompt.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Scott. I see class all over the place and especially in Victorian literature.

This was wonderful you've given me so many ideas thank you! What a fab time of year 🤗🧐😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

My favourite reading month I think 🙂 Glad you are making Victober plans.

Ah! I’m so excited. Love your challenge. The class in Victorian literature is just key to the novels. So excited to think a TBR for Victober ❤

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Hi Reesha. Look forward to seeing your TBR and as you say it's hard to avoid class in Victorian literature!

I kept waiting for you to mention George Gissing, he would tick so many of these boxes too. Gissing is my absolute favourite and heartly recomend him.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I am planning on reading The Odd Women this Victober myself. I could have mentioned New Grub Street couldn't I? I was really impressed by it.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

But lots of other authors and books could have got a mention too. Class pops up again and again.

Thanks so much for hosting Victober and I love your challenge about class. One author that I thought had an interesting relationship to class was George Gissing. I loved The Odd Woman and New Grub Street. And Gissing was a man who was headed toward the upper class, great school etc, but through decisions he made in his personal life found himself in the lower middle class and both resented the upper classes but wasn't comfortable in the lower classes either. He's one of my favorite novelists.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to get to The Odd Women this Victober. New Grub Street is the only Gissing I have read so far. I thought it was excellent. But quite bitter. Which makes sense given his life story.

I love your challenge, Ros!! Of course, the same things in the Modern period were fomented during the Victorian period, and we had a lot of fun discussing this for May of the Moderns! Perpetual. Rigidity, because, vulnerability. This should be great for discussion in the Discord!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Yes that British obsession with class really stuck around once it took hold.

Already Victober? Time flies. I have a few Victorians unread on my shelves: Barchester Tower, Bleak House, The Moonstone… Time to pick them up!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Three wonderful novels. Bleak House may be my favourite Dickens.

Just found your KZread & subscribed, ss love how describe the books. Taken my Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now, ready for Victober 😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

How lovely. Glad you are here!

Ooh what an interesting challenge. I’very wanted to reread North and South for a while, it’s the perfect opportunity 😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Oh yes ideal. And such a lovely novel.

3:18 - so intruiging! 😃💜📚

Excited to hear all about it. Not my usual reading so keen to hear the recs and i am going to buddy read a favourite with Emily 💜📚

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Sounds good Charlotte. Which one?

Ahhhhh this is exciting! There are so many Victorian novels that I want to read or revisit. I will have to somehow narrow it down - this could last all year!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

At least the choosing should be fun.

What a great challenge! The only book by the Brontes that I haven't read is 'Shirley', so that's the one I'll be reading for your challenge. Looking forward to my favourite readathon!😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Shirley is different and interesting. Completing the Brontes will be satisfying I bet. I just have The Professor left that may have to wait a bit longer.

I am so excited about the group read. I was already planning to read The Way We Live Now, so I am excited to join in on Discord. I also hope to read some other Victorian books but I haven't made my choices yet.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

That's a brilliant coincidence Laurie. And covers two of the challenges already.

Really looking forward to Victober- have taken part in every one so far. I don’t have much time to call my own currently as I have 2 ASD/ADHD children and I’m usually caring for them on my own. But I’m going to make the most of the little I do get and will utilise audiobooks to the full whilst I’m busy doing the other stuff life demands! I know there are slowly more obscure titles being made but I’d love some more Dinah Craik or Margaret Oliphant ones to be made. Looking forward to your Victober content xx

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I understand what you mean Amanda. I was in a similar place for many years. I have so much more time now. Audio books are a good option at least.

Love all the suggestions. I'll have a look at all the other launch videos before selecting. I will re-read Ballad of Reading Gaol as it's available on-line. Although mainly about persecution I think the treatment of criminals has a class dynamic. Thank you.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely Angela. Wilde was aware that he came from a privileged background compared to most of his fellow prisoners and that comes through in the poem.

3:43 - also works for mine and Emily's buddy read! 💜📚

So excited for Victober Ros and I love your challenge! Options from my shelf include Cranford and Silas Marner! Looking forward to all the Victorian goodness and I’ll join the discord! 😊📚📚📚

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Alice. Glad to see you in the Discord group already.

This is my first year taking part . I am hopefully reading the group read . And listen to an audio book.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Delighted you are joining in and going for the group read too.

I'm participating for the first time with a full BEI 🤗 Ilove this video! Very motivating!💐

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Hi Ellie. Brilliant that you are joining the fun. Definitely some cozy potential too 😃

@MyCozyChronicles

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Definitely! 🤗🙌💕

I had to pause Jude during Misery May, so this is the perfect time to finish it. I loved The Importance of being Earnest when I read it for school, many years ago. Thanks for all the great recommendations.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Too miserable? I found it a bit heavy going at times and I am a Hardy fan. Good to go back and finish it though.

I can't believe Victober is just around the corner... Love this year's challenges!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I'm guessing my challenge will appeal to you 😊

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Yes, it does! 😀 I will read John Halifax, Gentleman for your challenge.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

@ it was my Victorian grandmother's favourite novel. It typifies Victorian values so be prepared for a degree of moralising but otherwise a good read.

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I'm looking forward to reading it!

I’ve never read any Trollope, so I’m very tempted to see if I can fit this in this year.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I feel you could discover you are a Trollope person. The group read is amazing but long.

I'm delighted that Trollope is getting extra love this year. I spent a lot of time as an undergraduate and graduate English lit student and was never assigned Trollope. Some years later I joineed a book club and was offered the Oxford Classic edition of the Chronicles of Barset and LOVED them Reading Trollope is always a joy for me. Whn my husband sees that I'm out of sorts, he says, "Maybe you need to read some Trollope." It always does the trick for my mood.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

That's exactly how I feel about him Stephanie. I don't understand why he is not celebrated in the same breath as Dickens or Charlotte Bronte.

I love Mrs Warren's Profession! I'm overdue a reread.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I have decided it is definitely going to be part of my Victober TBR.

Elizabeth Gaskell is an author Ive been meaning to try. I do love Victorian Literature 😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Gaskell should be a winner for you I think.

Ooh, thanks for this! I’m tempted to dip my toe in and attempt a Trollope!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Be brave and give it a go 😊

How fun this all sounds! I am especially drawn to reading The Way We Live Now. I read lots of Trollope when I was younger, I love his writing style and he is very witty. So, I am curious to see what my experience would be of reading him after so many decades. But, since it is such a long book, I might need to get an early start - don't tell anyone...

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

It's so good and getting a head start seems like a plan 😅

I am new to this - and I picked Wuthering Heights. Haven't read many classic novels excited to read!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Brilliant you are getting stuck in Donna. Wuthering Heights is special, not the easiest Victorian classic to get into but one you will never forget.

I can't wait to start !! I found a (new to me) book by Wilkie Collins called The Haunted Hotel!! Yep, Had to purchase it LOL.... it even fits with Halloween ! Thank you for all of the great suggestions and I did pick up a few others, I have never read Disraeli and Sybil so that got added to the cart also. I will be a busy lady!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Ooh haven't read that one by Collins. Busy but happy I hope 🙂

I love your enthusiasm for this event! I will be reading David Copperfield with Katie's Mega Dickens Readalong, and plan to read The Professor by Charlotte Bronte and something by HG Wells. I was given The Woman in White as a Christmas present, so that will be on the list too. I'm not sure if these will fit the prompts, but I am grateful that I have been introduced to Victober as it is now my favourite month of the year!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

David Copperfield works for mine and Petra's for a start. I think The Woman In White would fit Kate's. So well on the way 👏

@sandrahollins3520

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Ros🙂@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

There is SO much victorian lit , including the staple classics, I haven't read but I DO really enjoy it. GREAT choice with trollope. But I think I'd rather try to squeeze in two books that might fill a couple prompts rather than do a reread. I hope you have a lot of fun discussing it! I've enjoyed all of his that I've read. i was goin to try to stay away from challenges as I've hit a lot the past couple months and try to work on my backlist of already purchased/on hold titles... but you know me. I'm always willing to try to smush in a little more XD It'll be the death of me , me thinks.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Do have anything Victorian in your already purchased or on hold pile?

2:52 - and that works perfectly for my buddy read i want to get in here! 😃🥳💜📚

Victober was the first Booktube event I participated in. I have Martin Chuzzlewit lined up for Victober. I also have some Sherlock Holmes short stories, which I started reading this month. Troloppe would be new to me, but its another lengthy tome like Martin Chuzzlewit... Enjoy your Victober reading and related activities.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

I am glad you are joining in again Jim whatever you choose. I haven't read Martin Chuzzlewit. Dickens is always great but I it isn't one that has called to me so far. I love Trollope but we have indeed picked rather a fat one. Sorry! It's good though.

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff

8 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I am slowly working my way through Dickens' novels, I now just have three left, all from his early period : Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit, the titles with least appeal for me. I have yet to read any Trollope

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Nicholas Nickleby was memorable but not a favourite Dickens for me. I suspect I will never read the other two.

Despite being an avid reader of Victorian literature since childhood, there are still novels I haven't yet dipped into. I'll add "Diary of a Nobody" to my list. Thanks, Ros.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I'm tempted to reread it as I was sucked in looking at it for this video. Works well for Petra's challenge too.

IMA try _North and South,_ again 😅 as well as her _Gothic Tales,_ on my Kindle. Id want to watch that GBS play to boot 🥾🤠🎉

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Sounds good. And yes watching or listening to the Shaw could be a good option. I may do that too.

I have "North and South" on audible, and stopped for some reason. I've got a baby blanket I have to knit, so I think NOW is the time to get my earbuds tuned and finish filling my Gaskell gap.

@michellehyland3675

9 ай бұрын

It is fab. Enjoy.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Sounds like the perfect cosy autumnal combination, knitting and Gaskell.

I'm IN!!! But I'm just a newb so maybe just 1 or 2 Victorian books :)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Brilliant! You can cover all the challenges with a couple of books to be honest. But the main thing is to read and enjoy something Victorian. Look forward to hearing what you choose.

Great choices!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Art. Hope you join in somehow.

@ArtBookshelfOdyssey

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I definitely will be! I'm working on my TBR on right now. Do you have any more suggestions for this topic? I've read just about all of these LOL!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

@@ArtBookshelfOdyssey I am planning on reading Jill by Amy Dillwyn for this and Petra's challenge. Also possibly Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy.

@ArtBookshelfOdyssey

9 ай бұрын

Great I'll check those out! I haven't red them yet. @@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Although it doesn't fit in Victober, recommending as background, the great 1840 work of the Victorian journalist Henry Mayhew: London Labor and the London Poor. He grouped the different kinds of work and interviewed people about their lives. Their voices sound like the raw material for Charles Dickens.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I think it does fit Victober. Victorian non-fiction is definitely included but most people are drawn towards the novels above all other options. Great recommendation. I have read excerpts from London Labour and the London Poor and seen it referenced many times but never considered reading it as a book.

Too many books, not enough time! Let's just make Victober year round, shall we? I recently read Diary of a Nobody and that was such a hoot! 😂

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Oh I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I am tempted to reread it although there is that too many books, too little time issue.

I actually have Mary Barton! I'd already marked out Agnes Grey. The other two I had for variety were Bazalgette's Agent (detective, we'll see if it's 1st person), and Uncle Tom's Cabin, which, though American, is a classic from the period I need to read at this point.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Agnes Grey is first person so that's covered. Mary Barton should be a Margaret book. It starts slow and then the second half is a rollercoaster.

@MargaretPinard

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Ah, good! And excellent 🤗

I’m afraid of Gaskell because someone said _North and South_ has a lot of dialect, which I generally dislike. I’m probably due for another Eliot and _Silas_ may fit the bill. Thanks for the suggestions. 😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

North and South less so than Mary Barton if I remember rightly. Silas Marner has a great scene in the village pub that is in dialect but not overwhelming.

4:02 - nice, i do enjoy books that explore classisim 💜📚

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Me too and the Victorians did obsess about it one way or another.

@ChattieTheMadChatter

9 ай бұрын

This was such a fun video. I loved hearing the brief round 9f class explored in books - you and Katie have now got me adding alot of classics to my Storygraph wishlist! Enjoy the anticipation for Victober 💜📚

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

@@ChattieTheMadChatter and you.

Maybe I will go ahead and read David Copperfield now. 😊

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Well that is a thought. And then you can tell me Kingsolver did it better 😉

I still don't know what I'll read for Victober, but I know I got time to think it over.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Loads of time and planning is half the fun.

@jackiesliterarycorner

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 True but it can get overwhelming, especially when you want to read everything.☺

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

@@jackiesliterarycorner bookish FOMO is real 🤣

I’ve never participated in Victober and I must admit I’m very much a classics dodger as I’m always a touch intimidated. I’m tempted to give Agnes Grey a go though, Anne being the only Brontë sister I’ve not read so I ought to complete the set.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Oh do. It's only short and has a special quiet charm and intensity. I left classics to one side for years. Now I read more every year. Reading lives have phases.

I do not really participate in these read-alongs, but I plan on finishing off my George Eliot reading this month with Impressions of Theophrastus Such - so I hope that is enough for the challenge. Other than that, I am focusing on Philippine Literature from the Turn of the Century (20th century that is!)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

One Victorian book is all it takes to be part of Victober so sounds like you are in Joe.

6:13 I do love discord 💜📚

I plan to read one novel and four or five short stories for Victober 😁 Well I already had chosen my novel as Silas Marner 😊 I will read the short stories for other prompts then 🙂

@michellehyland3675

9 ай бұрын

Silas Marner is lovely. I read it in secondary school. Enjoy.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Perfect for this challenge Berna and Kate's too.

@BernasBookishAdventures

9 ай бұрын

@@michellehyland3675 thanks a lot ❤️

Im sooo in. I will message you to double check on my choice but could try Adam bede again or reread Mary Barton. I do have dr wortles school by Trollope but not sure if that fits the prompt. I have some of my prompts decided. Sooo excited 🎉🎉 Would any Wilkie Collins fit?

@rachelbosworth2438

9 ай бұрын

I've never read Trollope or wilkie collins so I'm going to read the group read and interested to see if collins fits any prompts

@michellehyland3675

9 ай бұрын

The Woman in White would work for class and outsider challenges.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

I was going to say Woman In White as it also fits Petra's challenge as it is a series of witness statements in effect.

@novellenovels

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I’ve read that, will have a think 🤔 I’ve got a Collins for Petra’s challenge

Mary Barton for this challenge or North and South Ros.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Good choices Michelle. Both fit and are great books.

I have a question, is a book written by an American about Native Americans, and it’s a book written in the late 1800, is it considered a Victorian book? I mean to ask does it have to be an English writer and does it have to have a setting of England?

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Well the initial idea of Victober was to promote and share Victorian literature as traditionally defined, meaning British and Irish writers writing between 1837 and 1901. But as with any readathon, you can use it how you wish. So it might be really interesting to read and compare a contemporary book written elsewhere in the world. If that's what you fancy reading, you could do that.

Hello Ros! I am getting a note that the discord link has expired. Is it too late to join? Thank you!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

discord.gg/u6Dam2wrYZ

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Tell me if that doesn't work 🙂

@carolynmorgan6033

8 ай бұрын

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 thank you, I'm in!

The discord link expired. Can you share it again?

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

discord.gg/9VX5spWD

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

Hope that does the trick.

@falanbarnett4189

8 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 that worked! Thank you!

I tried to join Discord and I got a message the address is invalid?

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

discord.gg/hHejyNW7 Try this Barbara.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

And thanks for saying as I have updated it in the video description now too. The invitation links expire after a couple of weeks.

@barbarahelgaker390

9 ай бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Thanks - it worked this time!