Victober TBR | A Pile of Possibilities | 2025

In which I chat about my reading options for the tenth Victober... #victober

*Victober Announcement video: *    • Announcing Victober 2025! | #victober  

The Hosts

‪‪@katehowereads‬
‪‪@katiejlumsden‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬
‪‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬
‪‪@HannahsBooks‬
‪‪@dickens-and-docks‬ & https://tinyurl.com/mr3y3rzy
‪‪@MilenaReads‬
‪‪@royreadsanything‬
‪‪@takingteawithcatherine‬

The Group Read:

Hester, Margaret Oliphant: https://tinyurl.com/4fukr58d
2 chapters a day October 1st - 22nd (3 chapters on the final day)

The Challenges:

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.

Katie’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).

Marissa’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.).

Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.

Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer.

Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education.

Jess’s challenge: Step back in time – read a Victorian work set in a different era.

Milena’s challenge: Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.

Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy.

Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.

Achievement Levels:

Completed 1–3 challenges = Mr Micawber level
Completed 4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level
Completed 7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level
Completed 10 challenges = Dracula level

Scorecard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/168mY...


Books and Things Mentioned:

-Hester by Margaret Oliphant

-Miss Austen and Miss Mitford article by Margaret Oliphant: https://www.jausten.it/jaindoliphant....

-Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: https://mrswarrensprofession.ntlive.c...
‪@freshparchment‬

-Phantastes by George MacDonald

-Salome by Oscar Wilde

-Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell

-The Marsh Fog and The Sea Breeze by Harriet Martineau: https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/title/...

-Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House, Dombey and Son, A Tale of Two Cities

-Thomas Hardy: The Hand of Ethylberta, The Return of the Native
-‪@JentheLibrarianreads‬ Hardy Readalong:    • Thomas Hardy Readalong: Announcement  

-Anthony Trollope: Barsetshire Chronicle Series

-Dr. Whortle's School by Anthony Trollope

music by [audionautix.com](http://audionautix.com/)

✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧

Let's be friends!

  / misa1404  

  / blatantlybookish  

[email protected]