I love Victober and am looking forward to this year. For my first person narrative, I am going to reread Jane Eyre, which is also my favorite book of all time. For my author new to me, I chose Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Lady Audley's Secret. I am glad to hear the three of you had such a good time with it.
Hello, new subscriber here. I just learned about Victober yesterday and I'm absolutely on board. I'll be reading two novellas by George MacDonald, Phantastes and Lilith. I love Victorian novels -- and poetry. I love Vanity Fair and Barry Lyndon (Thackeray), Middlemarch, and Wives and Daughters and Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell. And many, many more! So happy to have found your channel!😊
Mitzi you are a joy😊. I was sobbing earlier from my medically fragile teen daughters awful screaming fits and being so exhausted to care for her food, toileting, and medications, but things are settling down now. For now Thanks for being so sweet❤😊
Im reading eliza hamilton by tilar. Right now the 1770s the romance. The sweet letters. Courting. Dowery. And strong family ties, balls, gowns, and affairs😮. Its a lovely book
Hi Mitzi, love your videos. Awesome TBR! I'm also planning to read some Spurgeon for victober. And I haven't decided between The Warden, Lady Audleys Secret, or The Moonstone. I'd would like to read The Dublin Railway Murder (a modern book about a Victorian crime) if I have time. Wishing everyone a great victober!!
I have read RETURN OF THE NATIVE and enjoyed it very much! Also you might want to watch the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of it starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. I just love that, too! Also another favorite Hardy book is UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE. We watch the movie of that every year - for some reason I like to watch it at Christmas time.😊♥️
I read Under The Greenwood Tree just recently! I think it starts on Christmas Eve, so that's probably why you enjoy it then. I need to review that on my channel!
I want to read a Trollope, too! I'm happy that it's the group read choice so that will push me closer to doing it. He has so many books and I've only read the Warden, so I have a long way to go.
Greetings from South Africa. Thanks for a great post! I've just subscribed.! Thomas Hardy's '"Jude the Obscure" is not too bad, since you mention some of his stuff. I'm going to read "Tess of the D'Urbavilles" sometime soon. I've recently dived into "Victoriana", and believe me, it sharpened my reading skills (I'm 66, so perhaps a bit belatedly😃) I've done " The Mill on the Floss" by George Elliot, so I'm not too daunted in tackling "Middlemarch" soon.
This will be my first Victober! 🎉 I watched Kate’s announcement video. However, I still need to watch the other’s hosts videos, so I can get some recommendations to make my Victober TBR. I have to balance it with the other books I want to read in October. Your pile of possibilities looks great, Mitzi. 😊
I'm starting this month too! I got the group read book and just started. It is 700 pages. I don't even know if I'll be able to read anything else but the first forty pages are good. I've been watching the PBS series. It's more dramatic than the book. If I finish it, I'm reading Jane Eyre.
Love your enthusiasm and excitement, Mitzi! Really looking forward to our buddy read of Aurora Floyd; you’re right, that we’ll be reading Braddon books until we’re 80!!! 😂 Will be interested to hear your thoughts on Return of the Native as I’m reading Far From the Madding Crowd with Alice for Victober! 🥰📚💜
Yes, yes, yes, yes… Doing VicTober! Hooray! Favourite piece of Victorian literature, my whole life: Jane Eyre. I might listen to that on audio just for fun this year and I guess it ticks off the first person account category. I feel very very Gothic this year… LOL. I’ve already begun VicTober as well - for the same reasons as you - I want it to last longer because I’m slow! LOL. So last year and this year I’m starting in September and I’ve begun the group read and I’ve already finished the hound of the Baskervilles, which will tick off the first box again- the first person account category. That’s obviously going to be the easiest category! LOL. I have a TBR of 14 books… Yikes. Maybe I’d better extend it until January ha ha! I do like to read Dickens in December and wish they would have Dicksember - a whole month of just Dickens around Christmas time - perfect! Fun times.
Mitzi, your love of Victober is so contagious! What a great pile of possibilities! I’m going to try and read the group read, and possibly last years group read that I never got read:)
@@mitzireadsandwrites Well to be fair, even a bad Dickens is a pretty good novel LOL! This book is weird, because I actually find the bad characters much more interesting than the main character. But I have a feeling your heart will melt for poor Oliver!
I am so pleased to see other people just as excited about Victober as I am! Hardy is one of my very favorite authors and Return of the Native is one of my favorites. Hope you love it too.
Return of the Native is my favorite Hardy novel! I feel sure you'll love it. I read Lady Audley's Secret years ago and loved it but for some reason, I've never read another from her! You're so right--this is the most wonderful time of the year.
Love the singing intro! 😄 I want to try a Wilkie Collins and either Frankenstein or Dracula this year. I missed last year, but read North and South after. I started Little Dorritt this summer, but had to set it aside because I had read for a class I'm teaching this fall. I really want to get back to it, but I'm doubtful it will happen for Victober. We'll see...
Loved your opening! Your enthusiasm is infectious! I'm hoping to read The Moonstone, Nicholas Nickleby, and hopefully the Trollope group read. My favorite Victorian novel is Jane Eyre, followed by The Woman in White. I couldn't wait for Victober's official start, so just completed a reread of Far From the Madding Crowd. God bless, Lisa
I love Jane Eyre and The Woman in White, too! I was actually thinking about The Moonstone this morning and, for me, it's toss up between that and The Woman in White as my favorite for Collins so far. Very different but both 5 stars!
I loved Agnes Grey so much I asked on Goodreads if anyone wanted to do a group read and I was surprised how many do. We are doing that in Victober and then I am reading Silas Marner for sure and then I don't know. There are so many I have been wanting to read and never seem to get to. Some of my choices are: The Diary of a Nobody, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or something else by Robert Louis Stevenson, something by Hardy and Collins are always on my list, and Oliver Twist has been on TBR for years and it always gets pushed off. I am not going to worry too much about prompts this year because in previous years what I wanted to read got pushed off because I was worried about prompts. If I fill them great if not, it is okay. Trollope would be a new to me author this year but again I don't feel like it and it wasn't on my radar for Vic. this year. I will read him in the future. Sounds like you have some great one's lined up also. Have fun and I will be watching. ☺
Yes, the prompts are just to add a little extra fun, but read what you have on your radar already. I always try to fulfill prompts, but that's before I start lol. You never know what I'll end up doing!
I sing that, too, when I think about Victober 😂All of your plans sound fabulous! I'm planning to read The Way We Live Now, The Woman in White, and possibly North and South or The Warden. So exciting!
I’m hoping to read Dombey and Son for Victober! I’ve had it on my TBR for years and finally decided to read it this October, even if I don’t get to anything else. 😄🍂 Look forward to hearing what you think of all your planned reads!
Love your videos, Mitzi and I have watched you for some time. Since I spend a lot of my time cross-stitching, I wanted to listen to Lawson's Spurgeon...Unfortunately there is no Audible for this book on Amazon! As I searched on Amazon, I received a notice that I have this book on my kindle...I no longer have a kindle so I will read the book on my iPad! Thanks for mentioning this book! I'm looking forward to watching your Victober entries!
I feel this so much! More often than not, I also tend to start my Victober early and then can't seem to stop once October is over. 🤓 I read Oliver Twist last year (I think) and it was much more dismal than I was expecting. Of course, my only frame of reference was the film Oliver! which came out when I was 8 or 9 years old. Mark Lester was my first crush! 😂 I love The Way We Live Now and am hoping to give it a re-read. 📚 Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is also a favorite and Victober is the perfect time to re-watch the movie from 1952 (which includes the hilarious Margaret Rutherford, who plays a different kind of Miss Marple in 3 or 4 movies; enjoyable, but NOT Joan Hickson who I adore...but I digress....). 😆 Thanks for sharing. ❤️
@@mitzireadsandwritesYes. I was so enthusiastic about it. I am now reading Queen of the Rushes by Raine. It is a bit harder for me to get into. I sure hope you enjoy it. Let me know!
Mitzi, I have a question I want to ask you. First of all, I am very excited about Victober! This is my first year participating. I am planning to read Dracula, Wuthering Heights, and The Hound of Baskervilles. I am currently reading Jane Eyre. There is so many I want to read though! I didn’t know Charles Spurgeon was a Victorian preacher. Here’s my question, do you think his theology had an impact on the stories/views at that time. Particularly, Reformed theology. For example, the religious tones in Jane Eyre? I am thinking of some of the religious abuse used against her to make her feel guilty, or that God was mad at her and if she didn’t act better she would go to hell. I am very curious of your thoughts on this. I have a lot I am trying to work out in my mind about Calvinism and the impact on Christians. Oh, and I loved hearing your singing this morning in the intro. It just brightened my morning! 🥰
What a great question!! Last year, I tried to research this! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything about it so I'll continue my search this year. Have you read the Brontes? It's a biography about their family and I found that her religious upbringing made all the difference in her writing and, of. course, the society itself. It's a wonderful book if you get a chance to read it. I also found Charles Dickens nonfiction book he wrote for his children, The Life of Our Lord, interesting. In that, his emphasis is on being good. I've also been looking at some of the other writers of this period and their Christian ideas as well. It was such an interesting time with so many ideas and I find that fascinating. Sorry this is so long, but I'm trying to work this out myself!
@@mitzireadsandwrites If you find out anything, please share because I am very interested. I can give you my email as well. No, I have not read The Brontes, but it sounds interesting, along with the Charles Dickens book. I’ll see if I can find anything while researching, too. This really intrigues me.
I was 6:30am when I turned this one and you made my day and made me smile with singing you opening. Thanks🙂🙂🙂🌻🌻🍁🍁
I love Jeremy Brett as Holmes! Spurgeon is so amazing. Love his sermons.
Sounds like you have a bunch of great books for this year!
I love Victober and am looking forward to this year. For my first person narrative, I am going to reread Jane Eyre, which is also my favorite book of all time. For my author new to me, I chose Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Lady Audley's Secret. I am glad to hear the three of you had such a good time with it.
Jane Eyre❤I'm starting to itch for a reread myself. Let me know what you think of Lady Audley's Secret!
I'm going to read Jane Erye for this first time for Victober this year and I'm excited to read it because so many love it
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@@leafsonata I hope you love it too!
I agree. It is the most wonderful time of the year! Best season and best time for reading. Summer would be 2nd.
Yes! It's just such a lively time for the excitement of discovering new books! I love it!
You are the happiest BookTuber I know. Have fun with your Victober Piles of Possibilities .🥰
😂I don't get out much!😂
Hello, new subscriber here. I just learned about Victober yesterday and I'm absolutely on board. I'll be reading two novellas by George MacDonald, Phantastes and Lilith. I love Victorian novels -- and poetry. I love Vanity Fair and Barry Lyndon (Thackeray), Middlemarch, and Wives and Daughters and Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell. And many, many more! So happy to have found your channel!😊
I love Victober also. I will start Trollope with you. Hope my eyes hold up for this chunkier!!
I know!! I mean, the thing is a doorstop! 😂
Mitzi you are a joy😊. I was sobbing earlier from my medically fragile teen daughters awful screaming fits and being so exhausted to care for her food, toileting, and medications, but things are settling down now. For now
Thanks for being so sweet❤😊
Praying you and your daughter have a restful evening and wonderful week.
Yessss it is!! Y'all are getting these TBRs out EARLY!! 🎉🎉LOL
I couldn't wait!! 😂
I love Thomas Hardy too, my absolute favorite being Far From the Madding Crowd. I might try to pick up another one of his for Victober!
I enjoyed that one, too! I'm waiting to read Jude the Obscure because everyone says I won't like it. 😂
Im reading eliza hamilton by tilar. Right now the 1770s the romance. The sweet letters. Courting. Dowery. And strong family ties, balls, gowns, and affairs😮. Its a lovely book
You are my favorite! Please, sing on a regular basis! I am so excited for Victober. 💕
😂It would end up being twangy country 😂
Hi Mitzi, love your videos. Awesome TBR! I'm also planning to read some Spurgeon for victober. And I haven't decided between The Warden, Lady Audleys Secret, or The Moonstone. I'd would like to read The Dublin Railway Murder (a modern book about a Victorian crime) if I have time. Wishing everyone a great victober!!
Ooh, those are some great choices! Happy Reading!
I have read RETURN OF THE NATIVE and enjoyed it very much! Also you might want to watch the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of it starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. I just love that, too! Also another favorite Hardy book is UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE. We watch the movie of that every year - for some reason I like to watch it at Christmas time.😊♥️
I read Under The Greenwood Tree just recently! I think it starts on Christmas Eve, so that's probably why you enjoy it then. I need to review that on my channel!
Wonderful video, Mitzi! 😄♥️ I’m so excited for the autumn reading season, too! 📚🍂🍁☕️ My current fav Victorian literature is Wives & Daughters 😄
Loved your opening🥰 I agree, Victober is a wonderful time of the year. I know I’m participating and I intend this to be the year I read a Trollope!
I want to read a Trollope, too! I'm happy that it's the group read choice so that will push me closer to doing it. He has so many books and I've only read the Warden, so I have a long way to go.
I love that we Victoberers apply that song to Victober! LOL I'm going to read Return of the Native too! I love your Dickens goals!
Thanks! Hope we both enjoy Return of the Native!
This my first Victober!! I plan on reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Great choice!
Greetings from South Africa. Thanks for a great post!
I've just subscribed.!
Thomas Hardy's '"Jude the Obscure" is not too bad, since you mention some of his stuff. I'm going to read "Tess of the D'Urbavilles" sometime soon. I've recently dived into "Victoriana", and believe me, it sharpened my reading skills (I'm 66, so perhaps a bit belatedly😃)
I've done " The Mill on the Floss" by George Elliot, so I'm not too daunted in tackling "Middlemarch" soon.
I can't wait to hear what you think of these books!! You’ve got several of my very favorites.
I'm so excited. I've already started reading 2 of them!
This will be my first Victober! 🎉 I watched Kate’s announcement video. However, I still need to watch the other’s hosts videos, so I can get some recommendations to make my Victober TBR. I have to balance it with the other books I want to read in October. Your pile of possibilities looks great, Mitzi. 😊
I'm so glad you're joining us! Hope you discover a new all time favorite!
I'm starting this month too! I got the group read book and just started. It is 700 pages. I don't even know if I'll be able to read anything else but the first forty pages are good. I've been watching the PBS series. It's more dramatic than the book. If I finish it, I'm reading Jane Eyre.
oh, I'll watch it, too, then! Yay! and Jane Eyre- always a good choice.
Love your enthusiasm and excitement, Mitzi! Really looking forward to our buddy read of Aurora Floyd; you’re right, that we’ll be reading Braddon books until we’re 80!!! 😂 Will be interested to hear your thoughts on Return of the Native as I’m reading Far From the Madding Crowd with Alice for Victober! 🥰📚💜
That's great! Look forward to hearing your thoughts on Far From the Madding Crowd!
Yes, yes, yes, yes… Doing VicTober! Hooray! Favourite piece of Victorian literature, my whole life: Jane Eyre. I might listen to that on audio just for fun this year and I guess it ticks off the first person account category. I feel very very Gothic this year… LOL. I’ve already begun VicTober as well - for the same reasons as you - I want it to last longer because I’m slow! LOL. So last year and this year I’m starting in September and I’ve begun the group read and I’ve already finished the hound of the Baskervilles, which will tick off the first box again- the first person account category. That’s obviously going to be the easiest category! LOL. I have a TBR of 14 books… Yikes. Maybe I’d better extend it until January ha ha! I do like to read Dickens in December and wish they would have Dicksember - a whole month of just Dickens around Christmas time - perfect! Fun times.
I'm with you- I'll just keep celebrating!!
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I'm going to keep my Victober going this year too! I have too many books for just one month. Lol
I think I overestimate how long a month is! 😂
@@mitzireadsandwrites every year this is the problem we all have. I’m going to attempt to make my TBR video tonight. We’ll see how it goes.
Kate's patreon definitely helps me read more during the year. I'm so glad I joined it!
I don't know - although your enthusiasm is very compelling Mitzi!
I'll keep trying! 😂
Well, I ordered Wuthering Heights and Diary of a Nobody that I'm going to try to get to. I'm such a mood reader! LOL
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@@stampincass😂I love it!
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Mitzi, your love of Victober is so contagious! What a great pile of possibilities! I’m going to try and read the group read, and possibly last years group read that I never got read:)
The Mayor of Casterbridge was great!
Oliver Twist is a great book about class I think. It's not my favorite Dickens, but it's pretty good.
Yeah, I've heard several say it wasn't their favorite, but it's Dickens so I'm sure I'll enjoy the journey.
@@mitzireadsandwrites Well to be fair, even a bad Dickens is a pretty good novel LOL! This book is weird, because I actually find the bad characters much more interesting than the main character. But I have a feeling your heart will melt for poor Oliver!
My plate is full in October but would like to try a short horror or mystery for Victober if I can fit it in. 🙂
Great idea! You could always read The Hound of the Baskervilles or one of the earlier Sherlock Holmes short stories.
I am so pleased to see other people just as excited about Victober as I am! Hardy is one of my very favorite authors and Return of the Native is one of my favorites. Hope you love it too.
Hannah! Thanks for stopping by! I'm so glad I gave Hardy a chance!
Return of the Native is my favorite Hardy novel! I feel sure you'll love it. I read Lady Audley's Secret years ago and loved it but for some reason, I've never read another from her! You're so right--this is the most wonderful time of the year.
Yay! I'm tempted to go ahead and start that one. It keeps staring at me on my nightstand. 😂
I love your shirt! My fave band in high-school! You have a fabulous bunch of possible reads.
Love the singing intro! 😄 I want to try a Wilkie Collins and either Frankenstein or Dracula this year. I missed last year, but read North and South after. I started Little Dorritt this summer, but had to set it aside because I had read for a class I'm teaching this fall. I really want to get back to it, but I'm doubtful it will happen for Victober. We'll see...
Dracula or Frankenstein would be great!
Loved your opening! Your enthusiasm is infectious!
I'm hoping to read The Moonstone, Nicholas Nickleby, and hopefully the Trollope group read.
My favorite Victorian novel is Jane Eyre, followed by The Woman in White. I couldn't wait for Victober's official start, so just completed a reread of Far From the Madding Crowd.
God bless,
Lisa
I love Jane Eyre and The Woman in White, too! I was actually thinking about The Moonstone this morning and, for me, it's toss up between that and The Woman in White as my favorite for Collins so far. Very different but both 5 stars!
I loved Agnes Grey so much I asked on Goodreads if anyone wanted to do a group read and I was surprised how many do. We are doing that in Victober and then I am reading Silas Marner for sure and then I don't know. There are so many I have been wanting to read and never seem to get to. Some of my choices are: The Diary of a Nobody, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or something else by Robert Louis Stevenson, something by Hardy and Collins are always on my list, and Oliver Twist has been on TBR for years and it always gets pushed off. I am not going to worry too much about prompts this year because in previous years what I wanted to read got pushed off because I was worried about prompts. If I fill them great if not, it is okay. Trollope would be a new to me author this year but again I don't feel like it and it wasn't on my radar for Vic. this year. I will read him in the future. Sounds like you have some great one's lined up also. Have fun and I will be watching. ☺
Yes, the prompts are just to add a little extra fun, but read what you have on your radar already. I always try to fulfill prompts, but that's before I start lol. You never know what I'll end up doing!
@@mitzireadsandwrites Yes, the group read is setting in my pile for Vic. but it is on the bottom of my list.
I’m planning to read The Return of The Native and A Woman of No Importance too! I love your excitement for Victober and I feel the same 😊
Awesome!!! Hope you can leave your thoughts when I talk about these!!
I’m sooo excited about victober I keep getting tempted to get aurora floyd.. I’m planning my Tbr but using my polls to help me 😊
Can't wait to see what you decide!
I sing that, too, when I think about Victober 😂All of your plans sound fabulous! I'm planning to read The Way We Live Now, The Woman in White, and possibly North and South or The Warden. So exciting!
Great choices! After reading North and South, you MUST watch the Richard Armitage adaptation. ❤
@@mitzireadsandwrites Will do!
Hello Mitzi, I’m finishing up Bleak House and will read Dombey and Son for Victober. 😊
Oh my goodness, I loved Dombey and Son, so you are in for a treat!
I’m hoping to read Dombey and Son for Victober! I’ve had it on my TBR for years and finally decided to read it this October, even if I don’t get to anything else. 😄🍂
Look forward to hearing what you think of all your planned reads!
Reading Dombey and Son would be the best Victober ever!!!
Love your videos, Mitzi and I have watched you for some time. Since I spend a lot of my time cross-stitching, I wanted to listen to Lawson's Spurgeon...Unfortunately there is no Audible for this book on Amazon! As I searched on Amazon, I received a notice that I have this book on my kindle...I no longer have a kindle so I will read the book on my iPad!
Thanks for mentioning this book! I'm looking forward to watching your Victober entries!
oh, good! I'm glad you already have it!
I feel this so much! More often than not, I also tend to start my Victober early and then can't seem to stop once October is over. 🤓 I read Oliver Twist last year (I think) and it was much more dismal than I was expecting. Of course, my only frame of reference was the film Oliver! which came out when I was 8 or 9 years old. Mark Lester was my first crush! 😂 I love The Way We Live Now and am hoping to give it a re-read. 📚 Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is also a favorite and Victober is the perfect time to re-watch the movie from 1952 (which includes the hilarious Margaret Rutherford, who plays a different kind of Miss Marple in 3 or 4 movies; enjoyable, but NOT Joan Hickson who I adore...but I digress....). 😆 Thanks for sharing. ❤️
I need to watch the movie then! Yes, that's my idea of Oliver Twist, too, so I'm curious how this will go.
I sure hope you enjoy The Welsh Singer as much as I did!
Were you the one who recommended it?? I'm so excited for that one!
@@mitzireadsandwritesYes. I was so enthusiastic about it. I am now reading Queen of the Rushes by Raine. It is a bit harder for me to get into. I sure hope you enjoy it. Let me know!
We're also reading the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson right now, so I guess either way, I'm in and dragging my kids with me. 😂
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Hardy! ❤❤❤❤ haven’t read any of his I haven’t enjoyed
I'm so glad to hear it! Loving my journey through his work!
Mitzi, I have a question I want to ask you. First of all, I am very excited about Victober! This is my first year participating. I am planning to read Dracula, Wuthering Heights, and The Hound of Baskervilles. I am currently reading Jane Eyre. There is so many I want to read though! I didn’t know Charles Spurgeon was a Victorian preacher. Here’s my question, do you think his theology had an impact on the stories/views at that time. Particularly, Reformed theology. For example, the religious tones in Jane Eyre? I am thinking of some of the religious abuse used against her to make her feel guilty, or that God was mad at her and if she didn’t act better she would go to hell. I am very curious of your thoughts on this. I have a lot I am trying to work out in my mind about Calvinism and the impact on Christians. Oh, and I loved hearing your singing this morning in the intro. It just brightened my morning! 🥰
What a great question!! Last year, I tried to research this! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything about it so I'll continue my search this year. Have you read the Brontes? It's a biography about their family and I found that her religious upbringing made all the difference in her writing and, of. course, the society itself. It's a wonderful book if you get a chance to read it. I also found Charles Dickens nonfiction book he wrote for his children, The Life of Our Lord, interesting. In that, his emphasis is on being good. I've also been looking at some of the other writers of this period and their Christian ideas as well. It was such an interesting time with so many ideas and I find that fascinating. Sorry this is so long, but I'm trying to work this out myself!
@@mitzireadsandwrites If you find out anything, please share because I am very interested. I can give you my email as well. No, I have not read The Brontes, but it sounds interesting, along with the Charles Dickens book. I’ll see if I can find anything while researching, too. This really intrigues me.