What are you reading for Victober?

[kev67]

Victober is nearly upon us again.

Our announcement videos for Victober went up today, and I'm very pleased to announce that this year's challenges are...

1. Ange’s challenge: Read a book by one of the hosts’ favourite Victorian authors (Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell or Thomas Hardy).

2. Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book with a proper noun (i.e., a place name or person’s name) in the title.

3. Katie’s challenge: Read a book from the first ten years of the Victorian period and/or a book from the last ten years of the Victorian period (i.e., 1837-1847 or 1891-1901).

4. Lucy’s challenge: Read a Victorian book written by a woman anonymously or under a pseudonym.

5. General challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it.

If you'd like some recommendations for these challenges, head over to Youtube. Each of us have recommended some great Victorian reads for our own challenges and the general challenge, and you can find our videos here:

Ange's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3MMp...
Kate's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5fFU...
Mine (Katie's): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRavI...
Lucy's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2gT...

[svejorange]

I had never heard of Victober.

[kev67]

I had never heard of Victober.

I was slightly surprised anyone on this forum had heard of it last year, as it is something some not greatly popular (although talented in my view) Youtubers organise. Personally, I think this year's challenges are too much, but you are free to modify. I have decided to read some short stories:

The Lifted Veil by George Elliot
Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sea Raiders by H.G. Wells
The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling

[kev67]

Delete

[wreade1872]

Never heard of this either but i'm almost always reading something victorian anyway :lol . Currently reading the pennydreadful

Broad Arrow Jack by E. Harcourt Burrage (1866) a bit like kill bill/desperado etc., but with a fair amount of comedy sidecharacters. Also for holloween i added
The House by the Churchyard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1863), 20% done no horror in sight yet.