Scallydandling about the books | Victober 2023 announcement: all you need to know, the challenges, the group read and more @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Such a joy to be announcing another Victober.
00:00 Intro to Victober, the challenges, the group read and the discussion group
07:15 More on my challenge and recommendations of reading to meet it
Check each host's announcement video for more about their challenge and some suggestions and recommendations.
@katehowereads youtu.be/xJ8xftaK7rA?si=fNMnXcW3inRRNx3w
@katiejlumsden youtu.be/dwTa7bjePg4?si=j7lPGJEAPiFQBMk0
@BlatantlyBookish youtu.be/DDj47C04psg?si=61VUnUNGbsQd0kqD
@bookswithpetra youtu.be/jlUkLBdQR8k?si=nIwoEXOIJAsL6oU8
The challenges:
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work featuring a stranger/outsider
Katie’s challenge: Read a piece of Victorian ‘New Woman’ fiction
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work by an author who is new to you
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian first-person narrative
Ros’s challenge: Read a Victorian work in which class features strongly
Join the Victober conversation on Discord discord.gg/9VX5spWD
If this link doesn't work mention in the comments.
There will still be a Goodreads group this year just in case some people want to meet and talk there.
Do use #victober for any Victober activity on social media.
The group read: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Schedule:
1 October: chapters 1–4
2: 5–7
3: 8–10
4: 11–13
5: 14–16
6: 17–19
7: 20–23
8: 24–27
9: 28–30
10: 31–33
11: 34–36
12: 37–39
13: 40–42
14: 43–46
15: 47–50
16: 51–53
17: 54–56
18: 57–59
19: 60–62
20: 63–65
21: 66–69
22: 70–73
23: 74–76
24: 77–79
25: 80–82
26: 83–85
27: 86–88
28: 89–91
29: 92–94
30: 95–97
31: 98–100
Other authors and books mentioned:
Charlotte Bronte - Shirley, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
Charles Dickens - Hard Times, Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperefield
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton, North and South, Cranford
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
George Eliot - Silas Marner, Adam Bede
Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil
Dinah Mulock Craik - John Halifax Gentleman
George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw - Mrs Warren's Profession
Such a joy to be announcing another Victober.
00:00 Intro to Victober, the challenges, the group read and the discussion group
07:15 More on my challenge and recommendations of reading to meet it
Check each host's announcement video for more about their challenge and some suggestions and recommendations.
@katehowereads youtu.be/xJ8xftaK7rA?si=fNMnXcW3inRRNx3w
@katiejlumsden youtu.be/dwTa7bjePg4?si=j7lPGJEAPiFQBMk0
@BlatantlyBookish youtu.be/DDj47C04psg?si=61VUnUNGbsQd0kqD
@bookswithpetra youtu.be/jlUkLBdQR8k?si=nIwoEXOIJAsL6oU8
The challenges:
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work featuring a stranger/outsider
Katie’s challenge: Read a piece of Victorian ‘New Woman’ fiction
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work by an author who is new to you
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian first-person narrative
Ros’s challenge: Read a Victorian work in which class features strongly
Join the Victober conversation on Discord discord.gg/9VX5spWD
If this link doesn't work mention in the comments.
There will still be a Goodreads group this year just in case some people want to meet and talk there.
Do use #victober for any Victober activity on social media.
The group read: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Schedule:
1 October: chapters 1–4
2: 5–7
3: 8–10
4: 11–13
5: 14–16
6: 17–19
7: 20–23
8: 24–27
9: 28–30
10: 31–33
11: 34–36
12: 37–39
13: 40–42
14: 43–46
15: 47–50
16: 51–53
17: 54–56
18: 57–59
19: 60–62
20: 63–65
21: 66–69
22: 70–73
23: 74–76
24: 77–79
25: 80–82
26: 83–85
27: 86–88
28: 89–91
29: 92–94
30: 95–97
31: 98–100
Other authors and books mentioned:
Charlotte Bronte - Shirley, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
Charles Dickens - Hard Times, Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperefield
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton, North and South, Cranford
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
George Eliot - Silas Marner, Adam Bede
Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil
Dinah Mulock Craik - John Halifax Gentleman
George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw - Mrs Warren's Profession
