You're my absolute favourite booktuber No ego, no waffle, no timewasting... you're all about the books ♥️

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Yes! I'm in, I think I've participated all of the six years now! You have fantastic recommendations here,!

Yay! That's all I have to say about that!

Just found your channel, this will be my first VICTOBER. Going to use it as an excuse to get back to reading, I have a shelf full of Wilkie Collins books…

Yay, Victober! 👏🏻 I'm think I'm *finally* going to read North and South and maybe Far From the Madding Crowd. 😲 Thanks, Katie! 📚

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

North and South is so wonderful - enjoy!

Yea Victober!!! I'm going try to read only books from authors whose books I have not read from before if I can stay away from Thomas Hardy.

@maryh4650

2 жыл бұрын

Tricky! Lol

So excited to be part of this again! I'm already trying to figure out my TBR - so many choices to make...

Ooooo! Gothic Tales by Gaskell! 😄

I just discovered your channel, but upon checking it out and seeing 55 videos alone dedicated to Jane Austen, I found my heart melting. I love Jane Austen. She is easily my top favorite author of all time. Jane was truly ahead of her time with her works and it's sad she passed in only her 40s. But her writing has left a huge impact and legacy on readers and writers alike.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I love Jane Austen a lot too - of course! I very much enjoy making videos about her work :)

@loganmcdonald568

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiejlumsden That's so amazing. It's good to see KZreadrs such as yourself keeping her legacy going. She very much deserves it.

I'm so excited for this year! I plan on reading Villette, Gothic Tales, and Great Expectations! Also there's a new Gothic Tales audiobook coming out on Oct 7th. Villette is my last Bronte novel which is exciting.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I'm planning on getting that audiobook too :)

I can't wait for your next Trollope video! I think he's my favorite author. I've read 5 of his novels, and I'm catching up to your total lol. Victober TBR: Daniel Deronda Time Machine

Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Trollope!

Yes for ranking Trollope ♥️

I ordered my Victober shirt last week (same colour as yours!). Glad I beat the rush! 😂 I was already planning to read The Return of the Native and New Grub Street, so I guess I'll check off your prompt! I also plan to read The Princess and the Goblin (MacDonald) and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Meredith). I've never read any of those before. I'm excited!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I love my Victober top :) I must read The Princess and the Goblin sometime.

Count me in, Katie. Yes to Trollope ranking and under rated authors.

Yippee! Victober is almost here. I just started The Pickwick Papers because I just absolutely needed to read some Dickens, so I'm getting an early start.

@alanswann9338

2 жыл бұрын

I've decided I would like to read all Dickens' novels in the order of publication. I've just finished reading his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, and I really enjoyed it. I'm going to pass over his second novel Oliver Twist, due to the fact that I already know much of the storyline and characters. Therefore, my next Dickens' read will be his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby.

We absolutely loved The Woman in White!

I squealed SO loudly when I saw this video in my newsfeed!!! I love the challenges this year. I'll have to start figuring out my TBR. I'm so excited for all of your videos!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Hoorah hoorah

Victober!! Thank you for the link to the best sellers in 1860s and beyond. Amazing to see Margaret Oliphant's ubiquity for 20 years or more.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I love Margaret Oliphant and she was so popular at the time but has been unfairly a bit forgotten!

Thanks for the great recommendations. I am looking forward to Victober as always. Not sure I am doing the challenges.

Congratulations on 6 years! It's my favorite readathon and am always excited to see the prompts :D

I’m beyond excited for the Victober Readathon! I have a huge collection of very old Dickens books published from around the 1930’s (2 books are missing, sadly presumed lost in a fire). It’s been my goal to read them all. I prefer to listen to the stories on audio by the fabulous narrators. I also have Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in very old editions. I just love all these these old stories! I will get Gothic Tales to read... I’ll have to figure out the rest with so many great choices. I like finding obscure less popular authors to read too. I will look through my Grandparent’s old books (and a few that belonged to my Great Grandparents) to see if there are any, plus the website you mentioned. I look forward to all your Victober videos. Most importantly, I want to say a big thank you Katie for doing all your Readathons. They bring joy to my life and I truly appreciate all the work and time you put into them.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

I am doing a buddy/group read of Bleak House 😳😳 it is a chunky book!! I haven’t read any Gaskell yet! Uncle Silas is so good! I read it this year and loved it!

Victober is one of my favorite times of year!! This year I might do Villette, East Lynne, and Jane Eyre. I’m reading Jane as I listen to Vanessa Zoltans podcast (bless her..I just love her) about it. I have a beautiful hard copy of East Lynne I snatched up as soon as I saw it at a used book store, in perfect condition. I need to check when it was printed. It’s so pretty

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent choices - I love all those three :)

I am getting very excited about Victober. I haven't taken part before but I feel like October is a perfect time to read some Victorian Literature, particularly the more gothic novels. Wonderful challenges! It would be great to hear more about how you find the more obscure Victorian literature that you read. I will be reading The Portrait of Dorian Gray and Cranford. Also thinking of joining in the Wuthering Heights read along that Marissa and a few others are hosting as part of her Bronte Project. I was quite sad about the summer ending but the prospect of Victober just as the weather turns crisper and the nights draw in means I am really looking forward to autumn now!

I want to do all the things in Victober!

This is the only Readathon that I participate in and I have been participating since the first year 💖

@wb7158

2 жыл бұрын

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Yay Victober! All those video ideas sound great. Especially the Trollope one. I’ve read around 10 of Trollope’s books now and really enjoyed them all. Looking forward to more Victober videos!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Trollope is wonderful :)

I'm reading "Woman in White" by Wilkie It's a sensation novel as you know. Aloha.

Yahoo! Victober is on the way! I need to figure out what I'm going to read now.

CAN'T wait until Victober!! 😂 💞 🎉 I love the recommandations! First time that I actually have many of them & just waiting to read some of George Gissing & more of Elizabeth Gaskell. I haven't read much of her but now I have a good reason. Ha! 😁

Hurray! Love your enthusiasm! Looking forward to your connected topics. Many of your recommendations are on my last year’s TBR so…. Second time around, here we go! Can’t wait. (Literally. I’m starting now!😘) 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

I am thrilled about the return of Victober. I am thrilled to be spending the next few weeks planning what I will read next month. I am most pleased that the announcement videos came today and look forward to hearing how your Victober goes.

@janetsmith8566

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! Looking to break my record of last year! (1book….) 🙈. I guess I need to get my priorities straight!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Hoorah :)

Picked up Diary of a Nobody. Want to reread Jude the Obscure. Will probably buy New Grub Street, but don't expect to get to it this Victober. Now back to Sci-fi September...

Jane Eyre is my favourite book! Can't wait to take part

I adore your enthusiasm for Victorian literature. I have compiled my TBR list: 1.The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow and Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund by Margaret Oliphant 2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 3. New Grub Street by George Gissing 4. The Warden by Anthony Trollope 5. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy ...... so excited 🙏🙏🙏

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent choices!

@taaptee

2 жыл бұрын

great list! I took a couple recs

I love these challenges! A bit late to the Victober party, but really looking forward to reading some fabulous Victorian lit this month :)

Can’t believe I’ve never seen this readathon around and it’s been going on for so long! So excited to join! (Also not a fan of Oliver Twist either!!)

I’m currently reading Wuthering Heights for the first time and was thinking of reading Frankenstein during Victober even though it was written before Victoria’s reign. I’ll just pretend it fits because it’s a little bit scary. Perfect for the autumn.

I'm SO looking forward to your Victober videos; all your ideas are simply wonderful :)

I just finished Jane Eyre. I don’t know why I waited so long to read it - it’s now one of my favorite novels I’ve read. I also watched the 2011 film and it was incredible. Can’t wait for Victober. ❤️

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't seen the 2006 adaptation, I highly recommend that one too!

@SelinHanim

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiejlumsden Yes I’m watching that!! I’m on the 4th episode💓💓

Yay! I'm so excited for the return of Victober!!

Your video plans sound amazing, I can't wait! I know for sure that I'm going to read Lorna Doone, Wuthering Heights, Gothic Tales, and Treasure Island. I'm excited to see what else I can squeeze in!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Good choices :)

my favorite person back with my favorite season!!!! thank you!!!!

Whoohoo! I am so excited for Victober, as I always am. (I'm especially interested in hearing about how you discover less popular Victorian works. Sounds like a great video!)

@janetsmith8566

2 жыл бұрын

Me too- that’s a great topic

So excited! Would love to revisit The Tenant of Wildfell Hall this year!

I am so excited for Victober! Thank you for hosting this again💕

Your enthusiasm is so infectious! I always look forward to Victober. I plan to read Dracula, Barchester Towers, and Hester. So excited to see all your videos.

I just also did my Victober TBR. This is my first year joining, I'm so excited! 🎉 I went for the darker Victorian literature this time (that I haven't read yet) 👻 But I'm skipping the challenges though 😁

I’m a huge fan of Victorian Lit as well. Can’t wait

Oh this is new to me.. A tbr to compile... So excited

I’m sooo excited and have been looking forward to these videos for ages. I’ve already decided what books I’m going for. I’m going to be sensible and only plan in 5 novels plus either Charlotte Brontes letters or poetry by the brontes..

Can't wait! Will have to scour the bookshelves to match the prompts 🌼

Hurray! I jumped for joy when I saw the three announcements videos, such a great way to start September. I'm so excited, and, needless to say, very much looking forward to all your Victober videos! Thank you for mentioning the Victorianweb website, it looks great.

Congrats on 6 years, I love this readathon and was very excited to see the prompts... I've had a good idea of my TBR for a while, but now it's time to find a sensationalist novel to add to it. 🙂

I am planning to re-read Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations and some other books. Thank you so much.

I am really looking forward to Victober. I will definitely read an Anthony Trollope. I kept pausing the video to head over to Amazon to pick up some of the other books you recommended but am not sure which I will read yet. I will do Gothic Tales - that sounds perfect for October.

I'm so excited! This is my first time participating!🤗

So I’ve recently read Great Expectations, Vanity Fair and I’m currently reading Tess of the D’Urbevilles which pretty much covers several prompts. I’ve been reading about a Classic a month and read before I knew about Victober. I’m going to count these as well as I will read Gothic Tales and I may read Bleak House also in October.. I never get enough Dickens anyway😂

I’m already excited for my first Victober. I’ve ransacked my TBR shelves for anything Victorian and my Victober to read list is growing. I think I may take your advice and read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have a different book by J Sheridan Le Fanu, so I shall try that too. Excited for the Gothic Tales as well. 🙂📚

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! Such great prompts this year. I’m excited to see your TBR!

Great reccommendations, thank you. Can´t wait! 🤩

I'm so excited! Can't wait for October!

Whoohoo, it's that time of year again!!! I'll hopefully be reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which would cover a few challenges. Thanks for running this as always!

I'm so excited! I really think these challenges are the best ones yet!

So excited about Victober!! These readathons really help a person keep on track with their reading. Thank you for the time and effort put into doing this!

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Looking forward to Victober as always!

Yes!! So excited for another Victober! Great prompts again. Need to have a good think about those!

Yey! I have been so excited to see what the prompts will be for this year and you have all come up with great ones. Thank you for hosting this wonderful readathon again and I can't wait to join again this year 😍📚

Victober!!! Thank you for all the wonderful book recommendations. :) I haven't decided what I will be reading yet. Looking forward to your Victober videos, if you have time. :)

So excited for Victober! My favourite time of the year! My tbr is already set. And all of them fits in with the challenges, so that's great. Looking very much forward to your Victober content, especially the Anthony Trollope one! I adore him!🥰

Hello lovely!! Very excited about this, as always. (I actually just read Silas Marner, so I'm staring early haha) x

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

:)

🍁 Hooray for all the Victober goodness! I'm planning to finally discover what Lady Audley's secret is 😏 🍁 Happy reading! 📚

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Ooo I hope you enjoy it!

I love all these video ideas. I'll be participating. I am excited to mske by tbr

Excellent video and lists of websites! Brilliant 😉 thank you

How fun! I'm definitely in!

I have no idea what I’m going to read this year but I’m SO EXCITED. I don’t know if I’ll get to all the challenges, but I’ll definitely have a go at reading a book set in the country and another in the city, and maybe the popular book as well.

I've been waiting for Victober since January and I'm a little sad I didn't have a single book that was on the goodreads poll. So! I have chosen to read Agnes Grey all by lonesome. LOL I'll be posting an Oct tbr soon.

I'm planning on reading aloud some of Emily Brontes' poetry or The Arbour by Anne Bronte (which is my favorite) for Victober.😎💜📚

I love Victorian books too. 💖 Love Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins and the Bronte sister. I like happy endings in my novels but i am curious about the dramatic, complicated, doomed love story of Lorna Doone. Might check the other recommendations as well.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Lorna Doone is great :)

So excited. Will definitely try to stick to the challenges, but also try to get to the bulkier books and get lost in a long and winding classic. :D I always tend to associate autumn with long novels, but I don’t know why… So excited for all your videos as well! Especially the vlogs; vlogs do always motivate me… Will there be a discussion with Nick this year?

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, perhaps, we shall see . . .

Currently working my way through Dickens (your Dickens reviews are incredible - thank you) but plan on reading a different author during Victober - 🧐 Gaskell North and South or maybe a Anthony Trollope novel. So many greats to choose from.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful options :)

Can't wait

Ah it's decided, I think I'll participate! I'm reading North & South this month, but have plenty of Victorian literature I've never read that I can tackle in October. Exciting!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Ooo I hope you like North and South!

Love your videos! I learn so much and I love your recommendations. For this Victober, I'm will listen to "Framley Parsonage" by Anthony Trollope, I'll try to read "Desperate Remedies" by Hardy and I do want to read the gothic tales by Gaskell.

I think I'm going to try and get through the Gothic Tales by Gaskell and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins this year. I cannot wait!

I can't wait for Victober to roll around!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

:)

How is it this time of year already?! Exciting!!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Trollope is wonderful!

I'm so excited to join in Victober again this year. I have been reading fantasy and sci-fi all year as it was a gap in my literary knowledge however all October will be dedicated to my beloved Victorian literature. Plans are Dracula by Bram Stoker, Villette by Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte both of which are re reads and The way we live now by Anthony Trollope. If there is any time left I will be picking up Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.

@yorkshirelasstracey5383

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think Dracula could be classed as a sensation novel ? I know it's gothic however blurred lines maybe? If that's the case then I have all my challenges accounted for as I have both a physical copy and the audible version. 🤓

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I reckon you can probably make that argument :)

Another great video Kate. I have just finished reading Bleakhouse in August and now about to read Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. I little while ago you did suggest you might do a readialong of Dombey and Son but maybe you did Bleakhouse instead. Have you any future plans to do any more readalongs as I have so much enjoyed the two so far. Well done for all your really excellent presentations. Many thanks.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the serialised Dickensalongs but they were very time consuming - so I'd like to do one at some point in the future but I just don't have time at the moment, sadly. Hopefully one day in the future!

The most wonderful time of the year is finally upon us! Diary of a Nobody was already on my TBR so that'll be my choice for the book-set-in-a-city challenge. I was thinking about rereading Carmilla but now I'm torn between that and picking up Uncle Silas, I'll try and do both since the former is short, but should I have time only for one, which do you think I ought to prioritize? I'll also be picking up my penguin classics copy of Oscar Wilde's plays (I didn't finish it when I started a year or two ago. I think I only read two of the plays back then) and continuing with George Eliot's Letters and Journals, which I started a few days ago. I might also sneak some of Romola in there too. If Kate and Emily host a Wuthering Heights readalong like they did with Jane Eyre last year I'll be joining them. It'll be my third read of Wuthering Heights which is my favourite Victorian novel and one of my all time favourite books in general. Also, finally picking up Lady Audley's Secret :D That's my TBR as of now but I'll be spending the next few days adding to it and trying my best to come up with something manageable

@NadaOQ96

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot the group read 😅 I'm so excited you picked something gothic and atmospheric!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

So I love both Carmilla and Uncle Silas - Carmilla is so short, but if you haven't read Uncle Silas before, it's well worth a read!

@NadaOQ96

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiejlumsden Thank You :D I'll try and do both, but will pick up Uncle Silas first just in case

Fabulous, can’t wait! So pleased to see George Gissing included. And you mentioned your second all time favourite novel. What is in first place?

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Gissing is wonderful :) My favourite novel of all time is another Victorian one - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.

@lizhumphreys157

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiejlumsden ooh interesting! I am doing a David Copperfield readalong at the moment and absolutely loving it, so plan to continue with Dickens for Victober plus hopefully New Grub Street and North and South (which I have the audiobook of, read by Juliet Stephenson - divine!) 😀

Victober Time 😀 After watching and commenting for a while, I've decided to throw myself into Booktube by starting my own channel. It's all very new 🙈 But I've done a Victober TBR video. Starting with short reads and planning to build up towards longer novels in future. Thank you for inspiring me to read Victorian classics 😀

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and hi, Debra! Really enjoying your channel so far :)

@bookinwithdebra

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiejlumsden thank you so much.

I cant wait!! Ive bought so many Victorian novels this year getting ready for Victober, I have bought "the Moonstone", "Rachel Ray", "Nicholas Nickleby" "Our Mutual Friend", "Deerbrook", "A Dark Nights Work", Not sure which of these fits into the challenges though... Do you know of any "fantasy" Victorian novels, I've read Jules Vernes books and Arthur C Doyles The Lost world.

@louisewagenknecht6140

2 жыл бұрын

There's always Dracula! (Didn't mean to give thumbs-down, hit wrong button)

@MRDEREVKO

2 жыл бұрын

@@louisewagenknecht6140 Hi, I've read Dracula so many times!

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't read them but George MacDonald wrote a lot of fantasy/fairytales I believe.

You know I love Victober. It was one of the things that sucked me into booktube and made me want to start a channel. I may actually make my month 100% Victobersome this year and only read things that are from or about the Victorian era. So far the plan includes Mary Barton (female main character), Doctor Thorne (rural), Hard Times (city), Dracula (popular). I have a buddyread for Daniel Deronda. My poet of the month will be Elizabeth Barratt Browning. Tilly and I are thinking of a Victorian play for our Discussing Drama series. I wonder if we can find one that picks up on the sensation theme. And for nonfiction I have Mullan's The Artful Dickens although I may let that spill over into November. That should keep me busy. Really looking forward to a new Five Victorian Novels About video from you.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping to get to The Artful Dickens in non-fiction November and so looking forward to it.

I found H G Wells' Wheels of Chance delightful and it's one of those "journey" books where I want to recreate the journey one day. Jerome K Jerome also wrote a "Bicycling" novel Three Men on the Bummel (1900) which takes the Three Men from the Boat on a cycling tour of Germany

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know - I'm looking forward to The Wheels of Chance.

(Melanie here) I am in the middle Hard Times on audiobook right now and an Anthony Trollope on Kindle. I love Elizabeth Gaskell, but don't usually like Gothic books (although Jane Eyre is one of my all time favorite books). I loved North and South and also Wives and Daughters. I should probably compile a list of the Dickens and Trollope books that I have read. I would love to see you do a video of all the Trollope books you've read. Have you read He Knew He Was Right? Reminded me of Othello.

@katiejlumsden

2 жыл бұрын

I have read He Knew He Was Right - I loved it but it has been a long, long time since I read it! I must reread it sometime.

Hey recently I got to know' bout your channel .Thankyou thankyou so muchh fr this amazing content.Love from Purnia Bihar❤

@wb7158

2 жыл бұрын

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have my tentative picks for #Victober2021 1. Read a book Popular in It's Day: The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Yonge or Barnaby Ridge by Dickens 2. Read a book that takes place in the city: Barnaby Rudge by Dickens or New Grub Street by George Gissing or The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy 3. Read a book that takes place in the country: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu 4. Read a Sensationalist novel: Aurora Floyd or The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 5. Audiobook: He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope 6. Read one with a female lead: Janet's Repentance by George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evan AND Esther Water by George Moore 7. Group Read: Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell Thoughts?