@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Yesterday, I started an Eliot biography which is a reread -and was surprisingly disappointed by its opening. I found it smoother sailing after I was past the introduction, though.
Yes I have the BBC radio collection of Oscar Wilde plays too - some fantastic actors - Diana Rigg, Judi Dench, Martin Jarvis, Edward Fox etc etc! Can hardly wait. There are productions of the plays on Marquee TV which has a good offer on for 3 months at the moment.
@@barbarahelgaker390 hope this works. Also added to the video description. app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/fd310e25-19f3-4aed-ad70-8c15a57e3803
A very diverse TBR as always. I read both Ruth and Sylvia's Lovers in the past year, and you chose the right book! Ruth features a minister and his sister. I'll be reading her Round the Sofa stories. Also this year I read Mad Monkton and Other Stories by Collins. It included A Terribly Strange Bed, which was one of my favorites in the collection, so good choice again! I'll be reading his Man and Wife. Enjoy your Victober!
@@kathleencraine7335 thanks for that information on Ruth. I was trying to check but doing that without encountering huge spoilers was impossible. I'm definitely looking forward to A Terribly Strange Bed. I have heard Man and Wife is a good one.
What a fabulous tbr. So many great ideas. Thank you. I started Victober at the weekend watching the 1999 adaptation of An Ideal Husband and then reading the play The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins overseen by Charles Dickens. So looking forward to my second Victober. 😊
Love your channel. This is my first time watching and of course I have subscribed. Love your October list. I will be reading a great deal of Oscar Wilde also. He is one of my favorites.
Ros, I love the idea of “Victobering”! You’ve got a couple on your list I love, Pickwick and Ruth and I’m envious of your Stephen Fry Sherlock collection. I’ve only read one Sherlock story myself so will be reading at least one more this month. I also might read Alan’s Wife but if I don’t get to it at least I can get your thoughts and very much looking forward to the reading of Charley’s Aunt. I have a couple of buddy reads which are Uncle Silas and a reread of Jane Eyre- after 30 years! Then Dead Secret by Collins, Treasure Island, The Doctor’s Wife and Modern Instances by Ella D’Arcy are rounding out the reading and I think that’s all doable 🤞
@@MarcelaChandía I started early with Sherlock Holmes too. I whipped through A Study in Scarlet at the weekend. When I finish The Sign of Four I'll move to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Great fun. I shudder just remembering The Yellow Wallpaper.
Such a wonderful TBR, Ros. I'm really excited about participating in my first Victober. My initial order of The Doctor's Wife was cancelled by Thrift Books, but I am expecting the book to arrive today from a different source--just in the nick of time. I am planning to read a good bit of Oscar Wilde this month too. He's been on my mind since returning home from Ireland where he kept coming up at several different points along the trip. I'm hoping to read The Canterville Ghost, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. We'll see if I am able to get to them all with everything else going on. I'm trying to combine some Victober and some spooky season reads, if possible.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 that's a feast of Wilde. I hope the new Doctor's Wife arrives but if not it's on Project Gutenberg for free so you could start with that maybe until it does.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 yes, I did find it on my kindle, I think, for free also. I just really wanted the book. I’ll be able to start, one way or another. I also found on my book shelves a book of Victorian ghost stories by women, and it has a story by Braddon in it as well, which I may try to read as well. 😊
Great list Roz! I am going to read some Victorian lit but not sure what exactly. Definitely reading Crawford which I have been putting on and taking off from my TBR. Play will probably be George Bernard Shaw and maybe Oscar Wilde. Religion I am thinking about Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs. The Fate of Fenella for playing with form and probably the Moonstone for serialised an Wilkie Collins. If I have time I will read the group read but not with the group. Have a great Victober!
@@59cubanita that sounds like a good selection Alina. I read Amy Levy's Romance of a Shop last Victober. I liked it but didn't love it. Her life story is interesting though.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 yes I read that too. I want to read something about religious groups who were in a minority. Reuben Sachs is about the Jewish experience written by a Jewish author anfd it is not that long.
Enjoy your Victober reading and challenges. I think it should be "Victobrian" for a Victober participant. I like you prefer later Dickens (from David Copperfield onwards), I have two of the earlier Dickens left to read Barnaby Rudge and Nicholas Nickleby. I have Barnaby Rudge on my TBR this year, it fits in with the religious component challenge, as there is some anti-papist threads in the plot. Wilkie Collins' supernatural short stories fit in nicely with Halloween and the spooky season.
I managed to track down a play by a female Victorian playwright- quid pro quo by Catherine Gore and I think it’s from 1844 so fairly early in the period. I’m waiting for delivery on that as I couldn’t find a digital copy anywhere but I’m planning on reading that when it arrives xx
I'm currently reading The Woman in White and I'm hoping to read Framley Parsonage, continue Dombey and Son. In October, I try to balance Victorian reads with modern spooky/whimsical reads, but doesn't always go well.
I am buddy reading The Pickwick Papers atm. We have both been really enjoying it. However because we wanted to mark Victober property, we are taking a brake and starting Cranford tomorrow
While I was watching this I was wondering if you belong to National THeatre Online. I haven't read it, but I did watch Salome and really really enjoyed it. One other resource because I can't remember if I commented on your announcement or not (forgive me if I'm being repetitive) I don't know if it's available in the UK without, say something like VPN, but L.A. Theatre Works via PRX (public radio network type organization) has a buch of audio recordings of plays, some of which I know are victorian. If that's a help to anyone. Undecided, but I will at least pick up one Victorian title. I applaud you for dickens. I made my way through David Copperfield to read it before Demon Copperhead and... I barely survived. In retrospect probably shouldn't have done so so close to "war and peace" where my brain was long-book exhausted...
@@reflectiverambling1148 Tilly my daughter has a year's subscription and I am visiting her so hoping to see some. It is called National Theatre at Home over here. London Assurance and Salome are top of the list. I'll look at whether LA Theatre Works is accessible here. I find I have to settle into Dickens, his pace and style, but love it once I do.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I"m a dolt. It's at home here too. Though there have been a couple times despite it claiming to be international a few hare listed as available but not :( I maintain the subscription but I actually haven't gotten to watch any lately. But it's something small I can do to support the arts, so why not? I will take your word on it and give DIckens another go. I did enjoy the concepts and themes when I read him. It's just a result, I believe, of him stretching i tout since he was being paid per word/length.
I thought "The Pickwick Papers" wasn't Victorian being published before the death of William IV.? I have left over from another Victober "The Uncommercial Traveller" by Dickens which I will definitely read next month. I have all the Sherlock Holmes short stories as read by someone on TH-cam which I last listened to when I was ill in hospital So I might get those out of storage so to speak.
@@johncrwarner well the serialisation started during William's reign but continued into Victoria's and the book version was after her accession so that satisfied the pedant in me.
Thank you for hosting Victober! I watched the National Theatre Live production of London Assurance and enjoyed it.
@@MarthaDunstablesCurls Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale were both brilliant.
It has been absolutely my pleasure to set up the reading challenge on StoryGraph and show my support. 🤗
@@ameliareads589 thanks 😊
London Assurance and Boucicault are new to me--great tip!
@@MargaretPinard I have watched and read it now and it is good.
I haven't read Pickwick in decades! I am eager to hear what you think of it now, as well as your thoughts on Ruth! Happy Victober!!
@@HannahsBooks I have started with Sherlock Holmes and The Doctor's Wife but will embark on Pickwick soon too. What about you?
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Yesterday, I started an Eliot biography which is a reread -and was surprisingly disappointed by its opening. I found it smoother sailing after I was past the introduction, though.
Yes I have the BBC radio collection of Oscar Wilde plays too - some fantastic actors - Diana Rigg, Judi Dench, Martin Jarvis, Edward Fox etc etc! Can hardly wait. There are productions of the plays on Marquee TV which has a good offer on for 3 months at the moment.
And where do I find the Victober messages on Storygraph?
@@barbarahelgaker390 hope this works. Also added to the video description.
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/fd310e25-19f3-4aed-ad70-8c15a57e3803
Yes I was excited by the BBC casts. they should be good.
@@barbarahelgaker390 TH-cam removed my reply with the Storygraph link but it is in the video description.
What a wonderful selection of books! I really enjoyed hearing you discuss them.
@@paulsomerville4005 thank you. I love Victober.
A very diverse TBR as always. I read both Ruth and Sylvia's Lovers in the past year, and you chose the right book! Ruth features a minister and his sister. I'll be reading her Round the Sofa stories. Also this year I read Mad Monkton and Other Stories by Collins. It included A Terribly Strange Bed, which was one of my favorites in the collection, so good choice again! I'll be reading his Man and Wife. Enjoy your Victober!
@@kathleencraine7335 thanks for that information on Ruth. I was trying to check but doing that without encountering huge spoilers was impossible. I'm definitely looking forward to A Terribly Strange Bed. I have heard Man and Wife is a good one.
I just found you and Victober! Thank you for making this episode.
@@Rubylee-i2p welcome to Victober ☺️
PP is very funny. I read it last year and loved it.
@@knittingbooksetc.2810 good to hear that.
What a fabulous tbr. So many great ideas. Thank you. I started Victober at the weekend watching the 1999 adaptation of An Ideal Husband and then reading the play The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins overseen by Charles Dickens. So looking forward to my second Victober. 😊
@@RaynorReadsStuff off to a brilliant start then. How did you find The Frozen Deep? I heard mixed reports on that.
So many great picks. Thank you for mentioning the National Theatre at Home. I just got on their website and it looks amazing.
@@ariannefowler455 it is really good I think. The best British theatre and all sorts of plays from Shakespeare to contemporary stuff.
Yay! I love Victober. This is a stellar list.
@@readandre-read and not crazily ambitious I think. Glad you love Victober too.
Great tbr Ros! I hope you enjoy Ouida. I haven't read Afternoon, but her novels are tons of fun!
@@elizabethaliteraryprincess her life story is intriguing. If I enjoy the play I'll try one of her novels next.
It's the most wonderful time of the year.....
Better than Christmas 🎄
More reading, less cooking!
Love your channel. This is my first time watching and of course I have subscribed. Love your October list. I will be reading a great deal of Oscar Wilde also. He is one of my favorites.
@@lindawalker2451 lovely to "meet" you. Wilde is such a pleasure to read, especially his plays for me.
What a delight a Ros Victober tbr is! I hope it's a splendid reading month for you.
@@katehowereads you too 😘
Great choices. I started the pickwick papers yesterday and it is good 😊
@@novellenovels hurrah. Look forward to sharing some thoughts on Pickwick.
I'm excited at my first full-on Victober! Your choices look awesome.
Great to have you as a Victoberer. Or is it Victobrian? Anyway you have an interesting perspective I think.
I hope you enjoy your feast of Oscar and all the other books you get to Ros ☺️❤️📚❤️You always have such great choices.
It's an Oscar and Sherlock feast I think. Victober does make me happy.
Ros, I love the idea of “Victobering”! You’ve got a couple on your list I love, Pickwick and Ruth and I’m envious of your Stephen Fry Sherlock collection. I’ve only read one Sherlock story myself so will be reading at least one more this month. I also might read Alan’s Wife but if I don’t get to it at least I can get your thoughts and very much looking forward to the reading of Charley’s Aunt. I have a couple of buddy reads which are Uncle Silas and a reread of Jane Eyre- after 30 years! Then Dead Secret by Collins, Treasure Island, The Doctor’s Wife and Modern Instances by Ella D’Arcy are rounding out the reading and I think that’s all doable 🤞
Sounds like a you have great victobering ahead Jo. Thank you for your help with the women playwrights.
I started Victober on Sunday listening to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Fry, and today I read The Yellow Wallpaper, so onward we go!!!
@@MarcelaChandía I started early with Sherlock Holmes too. I whipped through A Study in Scarlet at the weekend. When I finish The Sign of Four I'll move to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Great fun. I shudder just remembering The Yellow Wallpaper.
Such a wonderful TBR, Ros. I'm really excited about participating in my first Victober. My initial order of The Doctor's Wife was cancelled by Thrift Books, but I am expecting the book to arrive today from a different source--just in the nick of time. I am planning to read a good bit of Oscar Wilde this month too. He's been on my mind since returning home from Ireland where he kept coming up at several different points along the trip. I'm hoping to read The Canterville Ghost, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. We'll see if I am able to get to them all with everything else going on. I'm trying to combine some Victober and some spooky season reads, if possible.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 that's a feast of Wilde. I hope the new Doctor's Wife arrives but if not it's on Project Gutenberg for free so you could start with that maybe until it does.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 yes, I did find it on my kindle, I think, for free also. I just really wanted the book. I’ll be able to start, one way or another. I also found on my book shelves a book of Victorian ghost stories by women, and it has a story by Braddon in it as well, which I may try to read as well. 😊
@@BookChatWithPat8668 and fitting for the time of year.
It just this minute arrived!! Hooray!
@@BookChatWithPat8668 wonderful!
Great list Roz! I am going to read some Victorian lit but not sure what exactly. Definitely reading Crawford which I have been putting on and taking off from my TBR. Play will probably be George Bernard Shaw and maybe Oscar Wilde. Religion I am thinking about Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs. The Fate of Fenella for playing with form and probably the Moonstone for serialised an Wilkie Collins.
If I have time I will read the group read but not with the group.
Have a great Victober!
@@59cubanita that sounds like a good selection Alina. I read Amy Levy's Romance of a Shop last Victober. I liked it but didn't love it. Her life story is interesting though.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 yes I read that too. I want to read something about religious groups who were in a minority. Reuben Sachs is about the Jewish experience written by a Jewish author anfd it is not that long.
@@59cubanita and wasn't it partly reacting to Eliot's Daniel Deronda being well-intentioned but a bit off key.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 probably
I read Pickwick Papers a few years ago, and enjoyed it. I find humor in distinguished, respectable people making complete fools of themselves.
@@brianhaas1154 I trust Dickens generally so I hope to enjoy it too.
@@brianhaas1154 Victorian drama is good for that of course.
Enjoy your Victober reading and challenges. I think it should be "Victobrian" for a Victober participant. I like you prefer later Dickens (from David Copperfield onwards), I have two of the earlier Dickens left to read Barnaby Rudge and Nicholas Nickleby. I have Barnaby Rudge on my TBR this year, it fits in with the religious component challenge, as there is some anti-papist threads in the plot. Wilkie Collins' supernatural short stories fit in nicely with Halloween and the spooky season.
I like Victobrian and easier to pronounce too. I haven't read Barnaby Rudge either. Maybe next year. I will be interested in your opinion of it.
I second Victobrian!
I managed to track down a play by a female Victorian playwright- quid pro quo by Catherine Gore and I think it’s from 1844 so fairly early in the period. I’m waiting for delivery on that as I couldn’t find a digital copy anywhere but I’m planning on reading that when it arrives xx
@@amandalavelle2638 I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
I'm currently reading The Woman in White and I'm hoping to read Framley Parsonage, continue Dombey and Son. In October, I try to balance Victorian reads with modern spooky/whimsical reads, but doesn't always go well.
@@jackiesliterarycorner I loved Framley Parsonage. Great characters and a strong storyline.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I'm looking forward to it, but I want to finish The Woman in White first.
I am buddy reading The Pickwick Papers atm. We have both been really enjoying it. However because we wanted to mark Victober property, we are taking a brake and starting Cranford tomorrow
@@Bessie-On-Wheels I hope you enjoy Cranford. I love that book. Will I love Pickwick though?
While I was watching this I was wondering if you belong to National THeatre Online. I haven't read it, but I did watch Salome and really really enjoyed it. One other resource because I can't remember if I commented on your announcement or not (forgive me if I'm being repetitive) I don't know if it's available in the UK without, say something like VPN, but L.A. Theatre Works via PRX (public radio network type organization) has a buch of audio recordings of plays, some of which I know are victorian. If that's a help to anyone. Undecided, but I will at least pick up one Victorian title.
I applaud you for dickens. I made my way through David Copperfield to read it before Demon Copperhead and... I barely survived. In retrospect probably shouldn't have done so so close to "war and peace" where my brain was long-book exhausted...
@@reflectiverambling1148 Tilly my daughter has a year's subscription and I am visiting her so hoping to see some. It is called National Theatre at Home over here. London Assurance and Salome are top of the list. I'll look at whether LA Theatre Works is accessible here.
I find I have to settle into Dickens, his pace and style, but love it once I do.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I"m a dolt. It's at home here too. Though there have been a couple times despite it claiming to be international a few hare listed as available but not :( I maintain the subscription but I actually haven't gotten to watch any lately. But it's something small I can do to support the arts, so why not?
I will take your word on it and give DIckens another go. I did enjoy the concepts and themes when I read him. It's just a result, I believe, of him stretching i tout since he was being paid per word/length.
Did you see the recent headlines about Internet Archive's downfall? They lost several lawsuits about plagiarism... 😭
@@MargaretPinard yes but they are still running for now so I'm keen to use and promote them.
@@MargaretPinard and now they have been hacked which has to be a deliberate commercial attack.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 😳oh my goodness, the news keeps rolling in...
I thought "The Pickwick Papers" wasn't Victorian
being published before the death of William IV.?
I have left over from another Victober
"The Uncommercial Traveller" by Dickens
which I will definitely read next month.
I have all the Sherlock Holmes short stories as read by someone
on TH-cam which I last listened to when I was ill in hospital
So I might get those out of storage so to speak.
@@johncrwarner well the serialisation started during William's reign but continued into Victoria's and the book version was after her accession so that satisfied the pedant in me.
Enjoy your bit of Sherlock and Dickens.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
LOL
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Thank you I found the Dickens when I was reorganising my bookshelves - so I do recommend doing that periodically.
@@johncrwarner mine are firmly alphabetical, for fiction at least.