The Novel Nomad | Victober 2019 TBR @TheNovelNomad | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
It is the most wonderful literary time of the year! Victober is upon us and I plan to dive headlong into the rich and wordy goodness of Victorian literature.
Not mentioned in this TBR video is my buddy read with the lovely Kate Howe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife.

Are you participating this Victober? Let’s talk all things Victorian novels, poetry, society and oddities.
#Victober

CHALLENGES
Ange's challenge - Read a book by a Victorian female author (Bonus: one that's new to you)
Katie's challenge - Read a Victorian book under 200 pages and/or over 500 pages
Kate's challenge - Re-read a Victorian book
Lucy’s challenge - Read an underrated Victorian book from the same year as your favourite Victorian classic
Group challenge - Read by candlelight

Group read-a-long - The Importance of Being Earnest & A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Hosts Announcement Video
Katie (Books and Things) - youtu.be/CU0KpgK2HfA
Ange (Beyond the Pages) - youtu.be/CZe01gcrgr0
Kate Howe - youtu.be/B-YtBX9a9KQ
Lucy (Lucy the Reader) - youtu.be/avObbZJ2uyY
Victober Goodreads group - goodreads.com/group/show/722891-victober-2019

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“The classics constitute an almost infallible process for awakening the soul to its full stature. In coming to know a classic, one has made a friend for life. It can be recalled to the mind and 'read' all over again in the imagination. And actually perusing the text anew provides a joy that increases with time. These marvelous works stand many rereadings without losing their force. In fact, they almost demand rereading, as a Beethoven symphony demands replaying. We never say of a music masterpiece, 'Oh I've heard that!' Instead, we hunger to hear it again to take in once more, with new feeling and insight, its long-familiar strains.” ― Louise Cowan

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:: ALL THE LINKS::

-Books-
Black Beauty – goodreads.com/book/show/10931946-black-beauty
Mayor of Casterbridge – goodreads.com/book/show/38470213-the-mayor-of-casterbridge
Agnes Grey – goodreads.com/book/show/3194861-agnes-grey
Our Mutual Friend – goodreads.com/book/show/271283.Our_Mutual_Friend
Little Dorrit – goodreads.com/book/show/15777371-little-dorrit
Villette – goodreads.com/book/show/23460962-villette
Ruth – goodreads.com/book/show/1030241.Ruth
The Doctor’s Wife – goodreads.com/book/show/3204192-the-doctor-s-wife