Victober TBR 🥳🥳 The time is nigh!

[@toddbelanger1923]

Hope to see you back sometime Susan 😊...Boston Massachusetts misses you ❤

[@RoadReads]

Thank you so much!

[@miriamelizabethreads]

Great TBR! I hope you have a wonderful Victober! ☺

[@RoadReads]

I just watched your Victober TBR video a few days ago! Happy Victober to the both of us! :)

[@Movingthebookmark]

Such great pics, Susan. I am so excited to hear your thoughts on these books. Barchester Towers is just so so good.

[@RoadReads]

Thank you!! It's going to be a great month of reading! :)

[@Movingthebookmark]

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Peter Ackroyd is a GREAT biographer. His Dickens tome, wow. Just wow. I hope you enjoy! If you like it, I'll certainly be getting my hands on a copy

[@RoadReads]

I have his doorstopper on Dickens too, but that's going to have to wait for another time. :) Will keep you posted re: his bio on Collins. (Much shorter!)

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories. Happy reading from wet windy darkest Lancashire, England.

[@RoadReads]

Thank you so much! And happy reading to you too!

[@jen-vx3ks]

Really excited to participate in Victober for the first time after watching YT videos about it for the last years. I plan on reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and rereading Wuthering Heights, because I crave that intense drama when the fall starts to set in and the days get darker again. I’ve just finished The Count of Monte Cristo (very proud of myself, although it was such an easy read in the sense that it didn’t drag along) and now some Tiffany Reisz as a palette cleanser and some good steaminess 🤭 Then I’ll be ready for Victober.

[@RoadReads]

Reading The Count of Monte Cristo is a worthwhile accomplishment!! Congratulations! 🎉🎊 I hope you love The Moonstone…I sure did! And it you’re yearning for drama, Wuthering Heights will deliver in abundance. 😂 Happy first Victober to you!!

[@katehowereads]

Susan, your Victober tbrs are always such a treat to watch! I love how you have strategized for Victober this year and I hope it's a wonderful time!

[@RoadReads]

Thank YOU, Kate, for all your efforts!! May we all have a beautiful Victober!

[@scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

Hi Susan. What a well planned TBR. I am glad you are joining us for the group read too. Thanks for linking to Jennifer's Collins video and Alice's on Sherlock Holmes.

[@RoadReads]

Thank you, Ros! I’ll look forward to your Victober videos!!

[@dianameister475]

I loved the entire Barchester chronicles. I recently read Can You Forgive Her and plan to continue with the Pallisers Chronicles beginning with Phineas Finn.

[@RoadReads]

Great, Diana! Sounds like it's safe to say you enjoy Trollope...wonderful!

[@constancecampbell4610]

Love all Sherlock Holmes books and short stories. Have read the stories several times. They are comforting somehow. If The Sign of the four is a book, as I recall, then it is my favorite. Lovely to honor Alice and Jennifer. 💕

[@RoadReads]

I think The Sign of Four is the second Sherlock book. Great to know it's your favorite!

[@katiejlumsden]

Great choices 😊 Hope you enjoy Victober!

[@RoadReads]

Thank you, Katie! I’ll definitely be following along with you!

[@BlatantlyBookish]

What a wonderful TBR! I love how you've tried to keep to a realistic and managable TBR for the month. I'm starting to get carried away with all of the fun possibilities and combinations of books to meet the challenges myself, but I think that Armadale, The Return of the Native, and The Time Machine may just make it onto my list this year too. Happy almost Victober!

[@RoadReads]

Happy almost Victober to YOU! I'll look forward to which wonderful titles you end up reading!

[@lindawalker2451]

I have read just about all of Oscar Wilde's plays. He is brilliant and a man of tremendous wit. I also recommend his novel The Picture of Dorian Grey. I know a lot of people are including this in their Victober reading and I will be rereading it myself.

[@RoadReads]

The Picture of Dorian Grey is so good! I read it for Victober a few years back. Happy Victober 2024!

[@kathleencraine7335]

A great list for Victober! I have read them all except Armadale. You will LOVE Barchester Towers! All I can say is--watch out for Mr Slope🤣

[@RoadReads]

Mr. Slope. Thank you for the warning; I'm on alert! ;)

[@CandlewickLibrary]

Great choices!

[@RoadReads]

Thank you!!

[@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641]

Oh Susan, I feel like I’m never on time for these challenges! I own Dortor Thorne by Anthony Trollope and I wonder if I can start with this one or if I have to read the other ones first…

[@RoadReads]

Hmmmm. good question! I don’t know since I’ve only read The Warden. I think Dr Thorne is book 3 in the series. You could be a reading rebel and give it a try. 🙃🤎

[@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641]

@@RoadReads I read the first pages after watching your video and it says you don’t have to read the other two to read this one! Yay! 😄

[@RoadReads]

🥳🤓

[@betsymaher9489]

Wow - what a huge amount to read! You must be a very fast reader. I'm betting you'll really enjoy Barchester Towers. I've heard such good things about it. I think it's really neat the way you follow up with biographies, etc. of authors you've read too. I won't be participating in the group read but I'm hoping to get to The Forsyte Saga by James Galsworthy. I think that book qualifies. I'll have to see when it was written. I read The Dollmaker last year and then watched a video of the author, Harriet Arnow, that was really interesting. It showed her in her little shed where she did her writing and she described her process. Best of luck for Victober!

[@RoadReads]

Thank you for watching, Betsy! I don't think of myself as a fast reader, but I'm a strong medium-paced reader. :)

[@karenwetherald6086]

Oh happiest way to start a day... breakfast watching your Victober video ! I read "Return of the Native" last year maybe... I really liked it, one day I'll give Tess another go. I also have lying in wait "The Mayor Of Casterbridge" My only set goal for this Victober is to finally read "Wuthering Heights" and "Cranford" I have no idea if I've even spelt those correctly.... Here's to warm blankets, a big mug of tea and all the Victober reads !!!

[@RoadReads]

Thank you for watching, Karen!! You'll have to let me know which side of the fence you land on after reading Wuthering Heights! And I think you'll find Cranford delightful -- it gets better (and less trivial) as it you get further into it. Happy Friday!

[@karenwetherald6086]

@@RoadReads I'm half way through "A Month In The Country" and am really loving it.... the quietness of the story is beautiful

[@RoadReads]

Oh wonderful! 🤎

[@Dinadoesyoga]

As much as I love Victober, I'm saddened because I discovered both Jennifer and Alice's channels during last Victober. 😢 Armadale is terrific, I hope you enjoy it. I'm going easy on myself this year. My only definites are The Doctor's Wife and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Time permitting, I might read a short Wilkie Collins and Can You Forgive Her.

[@RoadReads]

Your TBR -- whether it's the 2 or the 4 -- sounds great! And I know what you mean about the sadness that's mixed in with Victober.

[@groovypoptartwashere]

I plan on reading Dracula and The Woman in White this year for Victober. I will definitely watch Jennifer and Alice's videos you mentioned.

[@RoadReads]

Wonderful! Their videos are very helpful relative to Wilkie Collins and Sherlock Holmes. ENJOY your Victober reading this year!!

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

I can’t wait for you to meet Mrs Proudie in Barchester Towers, Susan, the fearsome 😱 wife of the bishop. A horrible woman, who actually rules instead of her husband, but she also made me laugh so hard!

[@RoadReads]

Mrs. Proudie ... I'll be on the lookout for her! :)

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

Ohhh i love Barchester Towers!! His usual apology in the first 2 chapters for having to info dump you to set the political and religious feeling of the day then he gets to it. And like you i really liked The Warden. Love it after a 2nd reading earlier this year. I've read those Sherlocks too. I plan to read more of that next month too. I love your plan!! Can't wait to see what you think abt Armadale. I think that was Jennifer's fav? I have only read 1 WC so if i get to him next month (my mood has been crazy lately) I'm going to go with The Moonstone. I went ahead and started Dr Thorne yesterday because that's what my mood said and i read The Invisible Man for shorty Sept😅. So i got started early. I'll be reading The Trumpet Major by Hardy later in Oct for a patreon I'm in and i might read Far From the Madding Crowd if my mood holds. That's a good idea to listen to OWs play. I might do that so i can knit at the same time.

[@RoadReads]

Sounds like you have a wonderful Victober plan! I think Jennifer's favorite Collins was The Woman in White. But she said Armadale is his best plot. But don't quote me. ;) ENJOY the rest of your September reading!!

[@starlasell5698]

❤📚❤️ How exciting! I wish I'd remembered Victober! I'm on page 76 of The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy now and really enjoying it and probably won't finish until we're into October. I do have The Picture of Dorian Gray on my October tbr, though! I hope everyone participating has a great reading month!

[@RoadReads]

I hope you enjoy The Picture of Dorian Gray next month!! Happy almost fall!

[@starlasell5698]

@@RoadReads Thank you!

[@DrL_Reads]

Wow, exciting pics!

[@RoadReads]

Thank you! 🤓

[@sophieanngross]

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[@RoadReads]

Thank you for watching!!

[@sophieanngross]

@@RoadReads Cozy atmosphere your literary channel. I'll join the modern Victorians and make this #victober 2024 the best one yet. Thanks 📖☕

[@sophieanngross]

@@RoadReads Cozy atmosphere your literary channel. I'll join the modern Victorians and make this #victober 2024 the best one yet. Thanks 📖☕

[@eileennielsen5165]

I am subscribed and wrote down some of your suggestions. I've seen a few "Victober" book tube channels already. Many recommended Sherlock Holmes, Hound Of The Baskervilles for Victober AND Autumn! Maybe you could read that one. I have it (unread) so I am thinking of it. SO many good choices for Victober have to give this ALOT of thought; esp. NOT to set myself up for failure. Thank you!😊

[@RoadReads]

So many great choices, right?!

[@betsymaher9489]

P.S. I also watched Far From the Madding Crowd with Carie Mulligan recently and enjoyed it quite a bit.

[@RoadReads]

I'll watch it once I've read it...thanks! :)

[@Angela-it2tb]

Far from the Madding Crowd❤❤❤❤❤❤yes please read it !but if u hate it dont say so😂😂😂My heart will break

[@RoadReads]

OH no! I can't break anyone's heart! BUT, I have a pretty great track record with loving Thomas Hardy novels so far...so if I read it, chances are pretty good your heart will remain in one piece. ;)

[@cathyg.9996]

Hi Susan, it’s been a month since we’ve heard from you. Miss seeing you on book tube! Hope you are okay! ❤

[@RoadReads]

Thank you for thinking of me, Cathy! I hope to film an update soon! 🤎🍁

[@clarepotter7584]

The plan: 'The Nottingham Hill Mystery' (form). 'Rhys Lewis, Minister of Bethel' (religion) 'Quid Pro Quo' Catherine Gore (play - me determined to find a female Victorian playwright) but I do love the film version of 'An Ideal Husband' - not sure about the serialisation a lot of them are, maybe Gaskell or Trollope 'The Law and the Lady' (Collins) one of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I will probably rewatch Alice and Jennifer.

[@RoadReads]

That all sounds great, Clare! Thank you for sharing those titles!