#Victober

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Hi everyone! Please forgive the technical difficulties I had with this video. Argh! There is a ghost in my cell phone. Ever since I dropped it on the driveway and cracked it, a ghost got in and sometimes takes over the filming . . . 😄Today I'm sharing a huge pile of possibilities for #Victober! I'm determined to read one Collins, one Gaskell and one Doyle (it sounds like "One Whiskey, One Scotch, and One Beer" by George Thorogood!), as well as some short stories and nonfiction Victorian social history. Stay tuned for some other upcoming videos in the next few weeks. What will you be reading this month? Please let me know! Have a great weekend! 🍂🍂🍂

[@katehowereads]

This video was such a treat! Ruth is absolutely delightful and there is such a warmth to the story. I loved your story about apple Cider and Victorian Literature too!

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Thanks for watching, Kate! So glad you enjoyed it. Gaskell is quickly becoming a favorite. It’s so interesting to see in each novel how she experiments with a slightly different prose style and voice. 😊 I can’t wait to watch your new video on where you started with Victorian literature!

[@jessicaw1839]

I would LOVE IT if you'd make a video about the Franklin expedition!!! The whole mystery behind what befell the crews of the Erebus and the Terror is eerie and fascinating. I first became interested in the expedition while reading The Terror by Dan Simmons. It's a fictionalized account of what may have happened during that search for the Northwest Passage. It's a chunker of a book, very detailed and slowly paced, but it's wonderfully atmospheric and I savored every minute of it. That 1852 book you have is such a treasure!

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

@@jessicaw1839 I totally want to read The Terror (I’m beginning to ready cozy horror)! I did watch the series, which I thought was really good but also very gory . . .although, ironically, that was real human behavior rather than the supernatural. Okay, maybe I will try to do a vlog!

[@jessicaw1839]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 Yay! 😊

[@WaterBearReads]

Hi Celeste! Loved this video! I found a wonderful, illustrated version of The Moonstone over the summer! I began reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall yesterday and am loving it so far. Cannot wait to watch your videos on short stories! Have a lovely weekend!🎃

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Oh, sounds great! Anne Bronte is so underrated and overshadowed by her sisters. And Tenant is very, very much ahead of its time. Have fun reading!

[@Dinadoesyoga]

Great list! You expressed precisely and more eloquently my exact feelings about Barchester Towers. 😅 However, I've enjoyed several of his stand alones and I'm reading Can You Forgive Her? currently and I love it! It is much more balanced in terms of plot and political information.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

@@Dinadoesyoga Hi there! Ohh, thank you for the recommendation! Yes, I’d definitely like to try a Trollope standalone!

[@Daria-4215]

What a book, Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions, it’s a real treasure!!! I definitely want the video about this expedition, it would be great. It seems to me that The Woman in White is much better than The Moonstone. I am reading The Coming of the Fairies by Conan Doyle, but it’s the early 1920s.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

I've also heard that The Woman in White is better than The Moonstone. I'm looking forward to that, next year! But I wanted to read The Moonstone because it's been on my TBR for ages. Also because it's considered the "first" detective story (not sure if that's true.) The Coming of the Fairies sounds delightful. Happy reading!

[@miriamelizabethreads]

Such a great pile of possibilities! Have you completed any on your list yet? I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Doctor Thorne. I struggled with Barchester Towers for very similar reasons but loved Doctor Thorne and Framley Parsonage! I'm hoping to start The Small House at Allington in the next week! Ruth is such an emotional story! I adored it.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Hi Miriam! Yes, I red the Seance Book, Barchester Towers, Cranford, I listened to Ruth, I read two Sherlock stories, and I DNF'd The Moonstone! I did not go on to Doctor Thorne yet, as I decided to try Villette (sudden mood switch).

[@cassandra3399]

Hi Celeste, I love Victober, and have already read Frankenstein, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. Might get to Dr. Thorne, Sylvia’s Lovers by Gaskell, and some Dickens and Sherlock Holmes short Stories. A list of possibilities for sure, and a few modern books mixed in. I’m a mood reader so you know how that is. Thank you.😊😊😊

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Hi Cassandra! Yes, I totally understand mood reading and although this is a pile of possibilities, anything might happen! Happy reading!

[@novelideea]

Morning sip and chat with Celeste ♥️ Currently reading Poor Miss Finch by Wilke Collins (fulfilling 4 of 5 prompts in one book! Serial, Religious component, Wilke, & playing with narrative style ) I look forward to hearing about what you end up reading.🥰‼️

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Hi Deea! Poor Miss Finch is a title I hadn't heard of. Great way to go, satisfying all of the challenges at once! I will probably only get to one or two of these books, LOL. By the way, I am also going to be reading some spooky books, and I've noticed that you read and mention T. Kingfisher quite a bit. Do you have any recommendations for a spooky Kingfisher? I heard of something about Good Bones. ☠💀☠

[@novelideea]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 My favorite Spooky (not horror) book is What Moves The Dead. I also think Bryony and Roses is a brilliant spooky retelling of beauty and the beast. Lastly, I just read A Sorceress Comes To Call and it was not my absolute favorite of hers, but tense.

[@novelideea]

House with good bones is not bad, just not as good as some of the others imho.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

@@novelideea Bryony and Roses sounds wonderful! @WaterBearReads and I were just discussing Beauty and the Beast! I always thought T Kingfisher was Science Fiction or Fantasy but it sounds like (she?) also wrote horror? What Moves The Dead sounds great! When I'm reading a new author I like to look at Goodreads and choose one that is highly rated but not the most acclaimed. For some reason I like to dip my toes with a "very good" book before I read their "best" book, if that makes any sense. Otherwise it's like you read the best one first and now all subsequent reads will be downhill, if you know what I mean . . .

[@novelideea]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 I know exactly what you mean ! House with Good Bones might be just right. Another good but not greatest is Jackalope Wives and other stories. My favorite of her “fantasy” work is Nettle and Bone. Told in Fairytale form with some dark moments. It’s funny and endearing as well.

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

Great pile of possibilities. I absolutely love Cranford and The Moonstone is fabulous too. I’m reading The Warden at the moment and very much enjoying it. That Letters of the Brontes book looks amazing. Happy Victober 😊

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Happy Victober!

[@clarepotter7584]

Off at a slight tangent I starting reading a non fiction 'The Mysterious Cat of the Victorian Detective' which is really interesting and then I'm going to try and read some sensation novels with female detectives in them. I think my TBR is going to head beyond October.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

I'll also be reading some female detective stories. We can compare notes! The Cat story sounds delightful!

[@clarepotter7584]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 Funny I meant to type case. Not the best at touch typing!

[@CandlewickLibrary]

Actually I read Study in Scarlet and the Mormon stuff is not completely inaccurate. That time under Brigham Young was very violent here in Utah and there were people killed in the way that he lays out in the book. I didn’t know that until I started studying it over the last few years. It’s surprising, but true.

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Interesting! I knew that the Mormons were involved in acts of violence as were the vigilante Danites. I was referring more to the way Doyle paints their characters and speech and behavior. To be honest, I have no special knowledge of how Mormons acted in the 1800’s, but I based my remarks on articles from The Victorian Web and Smithsonian Magazine. Here where I live we have Hill Cumorah, and the grove where Joseph Smith supposedly had visions.

[@CandlewickLibrary]

@@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366 gotcha. I’m in Utah and from Mormon heritage though I am not a Mormon any longer, so from our family journals and historical documents when I read it it rang very true. Unfortunately.