🍂 🍁 Victober TBR 2023 🍁 🍂 Sensation novels, spooky horror, cozy domesticity, and social commentary

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

I'm glad we're reading Dracula "together"... yes, it's getting intense now!! Great list of books!!🎉

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

So intense! I don't usually read horror/supernatural kinds of books so it is almost too scary for me at times haha!

[@meghanthestorygirl4581]

I hope you really enjoy Cranford and Maud!

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thank you! Do you have any Victober reading planned?

[@meghanthestorygirl4581]

@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer Unfortunately, I don't. Just my reading for school. But I'd love to reread Tenant of Wildfell Hall one of these days!

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

@@meghanthestorygirl4581 Reading for school always has to take precedence, I guess haha! I hardly read anything for fun when I was at university! Hope your academic year is going well so far...

[@meghanthestorygirl4581]

Thanks, Chelsea!!@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer

[@gracetaylor7351]

Like the sound of the books you reading for victober Chelsea ! Hope you enjoy them ❤

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thank you! I have started Cranford and Wyllard's Weird so far and am enjoying the first few chapters of both of them!

[@katehowereads]

I hope it's your best Victober yet!

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thank you! I hope you have a lovely Victober too!

[@scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

I love the idea of Victober Eve 😊 I had forgotten that some Elisabeth Von Arnim fits into the Victorian bracket. I'll remember that for next year. Cranford is quite different from the mini series but wonderful. That edition of Maud looks amazing.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

The whole month of Victober is basically like a holiday in my reading year now so it really does feel like Victober Eve! I am quite enjoying Cranford so far, although it is such a mix of funny anecdotes with heart wrenching sadness!

[@michaelmccarty]

I am a first-time participant in Victober this year! I am reading Dracula, along with the podcast Re: Dracula. 🙂

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Oh I hope you have so much fun during your first Victober! It is such a wonderful month of reading thanks to the lovely BookTube community! I have heard such good things about the voice acting in Re:Dracula, I hope you are really enjoying it so far...

[@darrylfriesen]

“Pure shock and horror!” Yes!!

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

I love fully experiencing all the twists that come with Victorian sensation novels!

[@dianesellepedrosa1876]

Thank you for this video. Happy Victober🍂🧡

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Happy Victober to you too!

[@faithbooks7906]

Wonderful list! I never thought of von Arnim as Victorian. That’a neat thing to realize.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Yes her first few books were written right at the end of the Victorian era (although she is definitely a 20th Century author in my mind, kind of like GK Chesterton), Elizabeth and Her German Garden, A Solitary Summer, The April Baby's Book of Tunes, and The Benefactress. There is also The Ordeal of Elizabeth which was a draft that she apparently wrote in 1901 but wasn't published until after her death so not sure if that would count as Victorian as well or not...

[@novelideea]

This is a great list! I’ve never read the author who will be new to you, & I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the hymn you mentioned either. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thank you! 😊

[@dianameister475]

I can also highly recommend Father by Elizabeth von Arnim. Not Victorian but early 20th century.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thanks for the recommendation! I am hoping to read all of von Arnim's books eventually, so I look forward to reading Father in the future!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Best wishes with your reading in 2024.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

Thank you! Hope you have a wonderful reading year in 2024 as well!

[@TiffWaffles]

Wow, I just added Wyllard's Weird to my TBR. I'm not sure if I will ever find a physical copy of this book but it is up on Project Gutenberg. I read Lady Audley's Secret a year or so ago and really enjoyed my time with it. She's become one of my favourite writers. Have you read any of her ghost stories? I've seen her ghost story collections in print but never checked them out since I wanted to get her novels.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

I am just a chapter into Wyllard's Weird so far but am quite enjoying it so far (she is so good at writing descriptive atmosphere!)! No I haven't read any of her ghost stories yet, I've only read Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd both of which were excellent. She is an author who it is definitely more difficult to find physical copies of a lot of her books, but I don't mind reading digitally thankfully!

[@theresas709]

I didn't know Elizabeth von Arnim was Victorian. I thought she was German and born in Australia? I get confused on who is Victorian. I really enjoyed listening to Cranford.

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

She lived all over the world it seems (Australia, England, Germany, Switzerland, the USA etc) so I might be stretching things a little but I really wanted to read The Benefactress haha, but she is usually classified as an English novelist and her first 4 books were published by 1901 which qualifies them as Victorian. Her later works would not count as Victorian. She was born in Australia to English parents and moved back to England when she was 3 years old, so she grew up and came of age in England. She married a German aristocrat and spent some time living and writing there (her children were born in Germany), and of course acquired her a German surname in marriage. Quite a fascinating life!

[@theresas709]

@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer Thanks for the info. I have only read Vera and wasn't very impressed. After I read it I heard that it was loosely based off her life. Is that true or do you know?

[@VoyageofaTimeWanderer]

@@theresas709 I haven't read Vera yet, but I believe I have also heard that it was somewhat inspired by her second marriage. Her first two books, Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Solitary Summer are also loosely autobiographical. I would highly recommend The Enchanted April, that was the book that made me fall in love with her writing!