Booktext | Victober 2020 TBR! @booktext2424 | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
In which I set forth ambitious plans for Victober 2020. Victober is a month-long readathon of Victorian literature hosted by:
Kate Howe (youtu.be/eidSDkBuwXE)
Lucythereader (youtu.be/Q-Gr-idpezw)
Books and Things (youtu.be/vD0-QV0kxmE)

Victober Challenges:
1. Read a Victorian book that equates to your favorite modern genre
2. Read a Victorian diary or collection of letters
3. Read a new to you book and/or short story by a favorite Victorian author
4. Read a Victorian book from a previous Victober TBR that you didn't get to, or one you’ve been meaning to read for ages
5. Read a Victorian book while wearing something Victorian/Victorian-esque
6. Group readalong: Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Word of the day: chuckaboo, noun.

Books Mentioned:
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Letters between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0181%3Achapter%3D24)
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson

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