Blatantly Bookish | Victober TBR 2019 @BlatantlyBookish | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
In which I discuss all of the Victorian literature I'd love to read this October.
#Victober

The lovely Victober hosts and their announcement videos:
Katie from Books and Things: youtube.com/watch?v=CU0KpgK2HfA
Kate Howe: youtube.com/watch?v=B-YtBX9a9KQ
Ange from Beyond the Pages: youtube.com/watch?v=CZe01gcrgr0&t=599s
Lucy the Reader: youtube.com/watch?v=avObbZJ2uyY

Victober Challenges:

1. Ange’s challenge: Read a book by a Victorian female author (bonus: one that’s new to you)
2. Kate’s challenge: Reread a Victorian book
3. Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book under 250 pages and/or over 500 pages
4. Lucy’s challenge: Read an underrated Victorian book from the same year as your favourite Victorian classic
5. General challenge: Read by candlelight
Group readalong: The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1st–6th October) and A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde (14th–21st October)

Books Mentioned:
-The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury
-Oscar Wilde's Plays: The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, Salome
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
-Hard Times by Charles Dickens
-The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester
-Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
-Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
-Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
-Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope (all part of the Barsetshire Chronicles)

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