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Bye bye Elizabethan age, hello Victorian!
As well as my Victober picks for the coming month, I also have the latest random pick from the "Tote Bag of Mild Peril", three American novels of the 1890s, fairy tales, serializations and why I'm probably too busy to pitch in for Occult Detective October...
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
The Tote Bag of Mild Peril - 0:57
Victober - 2:27
Ingersoll Lockwood - 6:52
Don't, Mr Disraeli - 7:55
Back to Victober - 8:47
Outro - 10:58
Victober is a month-long reading event hosted by:
@katiejlumsden
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@katehowereads
@BlatantlyBookish
The Challenges
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialized
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Group Read: The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Note: we are reading 2 chapters a day and ending on the 18th with the last 3 chapters)
Books Mentioned:
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton - Larry Niven
Zanoni - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
No Name - Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback - James Sheridan Knowles
Sybil - Disraeli
Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger - Ingersoll Lockwood
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
Don't, Mr Disraeli - Caryl Brahms & S J Simon
The Doctor's Wife - M E Braddon
After London - Richard Jeffries
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
The Lost Continent - C J Cutliffe Hyne
The Princess & the Goblin and The Princess & Curdie - George MacDonald
Phantastes - George MacDonald
Evenor - George MacDonald
Savrola - Winston Churchill
The Well at World's End - William Morris
Various Stories - Algernon Blackwood
Here I am on Goodreads:
goodreads.com/user/show/153718778-genrebooks
Here I am on Voxer:
web.voxer.com/u/genrebooks
Here I am on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/artist/4VBpFN8YMTqxOipkiVtMe3?si=Zm3TMy_eRtGvmLf7RAkNOA
Bye bye Elizabethan age, hello Victorian!
As well as my Victober picks for the coming month, I also have the latest random pick from the "Tote Bag of Mild Peril", three American novels of the 1890s, fairy tales, serializations and why I'm probably too busy to pitch in for Occult Detective October...
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
The Tote Bag of Mild Peril - 0:57
Victober - 2:27
Ingersoll Lockwood - 6:52
Don't, Mr Disraeli - 7:55
Back to Victober - 8:47
Outro - 10:58
Victober is a month-long reading event hosted by:
@katiejlumsden
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@katehowereads
@BlatantlyBookish
The Challenges
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialized
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Group Read: The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Note: we are reading 2 chapters a day and ending on the 18th with the last 3 chapters)
Books Mentioned:
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton - Larry Niven
Zanoni - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
No Name - Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback - James Sheridan Knowles
Sybil - Disraeli
Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger - Ingersoll Lockwood
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
Don't, Mr Disraeli - Caryl Brahms & S J Simon
The Doctor's Wife - M E Braddon
After London - Richard Jeffries
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
The Lost Continent - C J Cutliffe Hyne
The Princess & the Goblin and The Princess & Curdie - George MacDonald
Phantastes - George MacDonald
Evenor - George MacDonald
Savrola - Winston Churchill
The Well at World's End - William Morris
Various Stories - Algernon Blackwood
Here I am on Goodreads:
goodreads.com/user/show/153718778-genrebooks
Here I am on Voxer:
web.voxer.com/u/genrebooks
Here I am on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/artist/4VBpFN8YMTqxOipkiVtMe3?si=Zm3TMy_eRtGvmLf7RAkNOA