Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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In which I chat about the books I can't wait to read for Victorian October! #victober

----------- Victober Announcement Videos ---------------
My Announcement Video: youtu.be/JJgQnhHi5PU

@Kate Howe : youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgG8DKcus&ab_channel=KateHowe

Katie @Books and Things : youtube.com/watchv=bD7nXOosUpQ&ab_channel=BooksandThings

@Petra U. : youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo

Ros @Scallydandling about the books : youtu.be/QLlSe3O0Jts

------------ Victober Challenges ------------------
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation

Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story

Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian short story

Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it

Ros’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian poetry, long or short

------------ Books Mentioned -------------
-The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

-The Mayor of Casterbridge Movie (2003)

-The Mayor of Casterbridge Movie ( 1978)

-David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

-David Copperfield (1999) - with Daniel Radcliffe

-The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) - youtube.com/watch?v=xXh53I-Sdsk&ab_channel=SearchlightPictures

-Olive by Dinah Mulock Craik

-The Poetry of Christina Rossetti

-The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince, and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

-In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu

-Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

-A House to Let by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter

-Deerbrooke by Harriet Martineau

-Charlotte Mary Yonge

- The Last Chronicle of Barset

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