Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Here I give my reading wrap-up for Victober 2022! Along with some historical fiction and a 20th-century classic.
Please feel free to reach out on Instagram (@lisainbookland) or Voxer (@lisa60932)
CHANNELS AND VIDEOS MENTIONED:
- Victober host Katie @katiejlumsden youtube.com/watch?v=bD7nXOosUpQ
- Victober host Kate @katehowereads youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgG8DKcus&t=0s
- Victober host Marissa @BlatantlyBookish youtube.com/watch?v=JJgQnhHi5PU&t=0s
- Victober host Petra @bookswithpetra youtube.com/watch?v=dZdO1ERQ8yo&t=0s
- Victober host Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks youtube.com/watch?v=QLlSe3O0Jts&t=0s
- Valerie @ThornfieldBooks thoughts on Jane Eyre 1983: youtube.com/watch?v=b9MN-L49avE
- My Victober TBR youtube.com/watch?v=dj43HGfrV3k
- My Priority Reads for the rest of 2022 youtube.com/watch?v=NywjlmooZug
BOOKS MENTIONED:
- A Thief in the Night by KJ Charles
- The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
- The Pawnbroker’s Reward by Declan O’Rourke
- The Complete Supernatural Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell (I read Disappearances, The Squire’s Story, The Old Nurse’s Story, The Doom of the Griffiths, and Lois the Witch)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (I read A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Bob Son of Battle/Owd Bob by Alfred Ollivant
- Some Experiences of an Irish RM by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse collected by Christopher Hicks (my particular favourites were The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rules and Regulations by CS Lewis, The New Vestments by Edward Lear, The Invitation to Tom Hughes by Charles Kingsley, Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti, The Dream by William Allingham, The Faeries by William Allingham, Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray, Post Mortem by Arthur Munby, A Wife in London 1899 by Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy, Past and Present by RE Egerton-Warburton, The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde)
- The Gentleman by Alfred Ollivant
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- Far from The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Further Experiences of an Irish RM by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The Real Charlotte by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The Eviction by William Allingham
- Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham
ADAPTATIONS MENTIONED:
- Jane Eyre (1983) imdb.com/title/tt0085037
- Jane Eyre (2006) imdb.com/title/tt0780362
- The Irish RM imdb.com/title/tt0144053
Here I give my reading wrap-up for Victober 2022! Along with some historical fiction and a 20th-century classic.
Please feel free to reach out on Instagram (@lisainbookland) or Voxer (@lisa60932)
CHANNELS AND VIDEOS MENTIONED:
- Victober host Katie @katiejlumsden youtube.com/watch?v=bD7nXOosUpQ
- Victober host Kate @katehowereads youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgG8DKcus&t=0s
- Victober host Marissa @BlatantlyBookish youtube.com/watch?v=JJgQnhHi5PU&t=0s
- Victober host Petra @bookswithpetra youtube.com/watch?v=dZdO1ERQ8yo&t=0s
- Victober host Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks youtube.com/watch?v=QLlSe3O0Jts&t=0s
- Valerie @ThornfieldBooks thoughts on Jane Eyre 1983: youtube.com/watch?v=b9MN-L49avE
- My Victober TBR youtube.com/watch?v=dj43HGfrV3k
- My Priority Reads for the rest of 2022 youtube.com/watch?v=NywjlmooZug
BOOKS MENTIONED:
- A Thief in the Night by KJ Charles
- The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
- The Pawnbroker’s Reward by Declan O’Rourke
- The Complete Supernatural Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell (I read Disappearances, The Squire’s Story, The Old Nurse’s Story, The Doom of the Griffiths, and Lois the Witch)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (I read A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Bob Son of Battle/Owd Bob by Alfred Ollivant
- Some Experiences of an Irish RM by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse collected by Christopher Hicks (my particular favourites were The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rules and Regulations by CS Lewis, The New Vestments by Edward Lear, The Invitation to Tom Hughes by Charles Kingsley, Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti, The Dream by William Allingham, The Faeries by William Allingham, Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray, Post Mortem by Arthur Munby, A Wife in London 1899 by Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy, Past and Present by RE Egerton-Warburton, The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde)
- The Gentleman by Alfred Ollivant
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- Far from The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Further Experiences of an Irish RM by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The Real Charlotte by Edith ΠSommerville and Violet Martin Ross
- The Eviction by William Allingham
- Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham
ADAPTATIONS MENTIONED:
- Jane Eyre (1983) imdb.com/title/tt0085037
- Jane Eyre (2006) imdb.com/title/tt0780362
- The Irish RM imdb.com/title/tt0144053
