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Great great job!! Many compliments you have a talent in doing this. Please keep going on and don't stop. Your analysis had been a huge inspiration in studying this big and long novel. Congrats 🥝🍊🍋🍌

every time i think of jennifer it hits me again. this is a great tbr! ive not read any proper classics this year, theyve not been appealing to me as much recently. good luck with all your books :)

Yay you're back great to see u 🤗 I hope you love Romola (such a great choice for the prompt) It was a challenging read for me but i absolutely loved it. Im watching TIOBEarnest (my first OW) & possibly another radio play. Totally get it with the life stuff. Happy Victober Tori 💞😊

Great video! ❤❤

Do read the Doctors Wife. It is good. It has a few similiar things like Madame Bovery but she is not Isabelle is not sensual like Madame Bovary. The benefits of novel reading plays a part. It is not a sensation novel like a lot of Braddon's boods are. The Literary Princess did a George Elliot read. She did a few videos on Romela. She really liked the book. Watch her videos on it.

Great to see you! Planning to read Great Expectations, The Return of the Native, and Cranford. Hope I get to some others as well! Sounds like you have some very good selections! Hope you have a terrific Victober!

So glad to see you back! I am reading Little Dorrit myself! I hope you get to this one since I would be interested in hearing what you think of it.

Jennifer said she would have liked 'The Law and the Lady' better if the back hadn't given her a spoiler. I've possibly got that lined up in remembrance of her too. Hopefully a short story for Alice as well, I was subscribed to them both, they're greatly missed.

Welcome back! George Bernard Shaw is a good playwright. Jennifer's videos are always a balm to the bookish soul--watch them if you can, and enjoy Victober.🧡🎃

Very nice to have you back! Happy Victober :)

I feel the same for Jennifer! I didn't knew her personally, but when she passed, for me was like loose a beloved friend and a special person. She had so much that I related too. In honor of her, I'll try to read a book by Wilkie Collins. My TBR this year is He knew he was right by Anthony Trollope and Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Happy Victober ❤

Lovely to see you 💜 I read the law and the lady last year and loved it.. Romula is now on my shelves so I look forward to hearing what you think of it 😊

Great to see you Tori! I thought you might come back when Victober was close 👏The Thomas Hardy collection sounds really interesting and I think I’ve heard good things about The Law and the Lady. I really enjoyed Little Dorrit and am currently reading and enjoying The Doctor’s Wife. Hope you enjoy your Victober reading whatever you manage to get to!

Welcome back 😊

Welcome back - there's no better time to return than the beginning of Victober! I'm in the middle of Trollope's 'Barchester Towers' at the moment and I'll count finishing that off as part of my Victober activity. There might not be much more as my wife had cardiac surgery yesterday and it wasn't entirely successful, so she's now facing further surgery, which is yet to be scheduled. Nothing immediately life-threatening or anything but still a worry for us both. Of course there's a possibility that a little extra reading will take my mind off things and I might be able to slip in another Victorian volume, but in reality it's likely the Trollope will be my lot for Victober this year. I hope you enjoy the Wilkie Collins - I read 'The Woman in White' as my first Wilkie Collins last year and enjoyed it so much that I'm looking forward to trying another of his works ... I guess 'The Moonstone" would be the obvious choice. But do let us all know how you get on with 'The Law And The Lady' as I've seen that recommended on some other BookTube channels. Thanks for sharing your update - kind regards, Brian.

Glad to see you back!

The Way We Live Now is incredible!

Jude the Obscure is Hardy’s best novel.

Love the woodlanders

So happy to see you rated Les Miserables by Victor Hugo in your top five. It is a masterpiece! Also I really enjoyed Agnes Grey…….very genuine piece of literature. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on these books.

You should read Daniel Deronda if you are looking for more action in Eliot

You should read "The Woman in White and "Great Expectations"

Please read DHLawrence’s review of Thomas Hardy, “Containing Six Novels and the Real Tragedy.

My favorite Dickens might be Our Mutual Friend. Here's the Wikipedia blurb: Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864-1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. This is great on audiobook and also has a great PBS series. Another of my favorites which probably doesn't classify as Victorian because it was earlier is Clarissa by Samuel Rechardson. This is a book which influenced many Victorian writers. It's an epistolary novel--all told via letters. It's quite long and there is an amazing audiobook of it which is around 100 hours long. Make sure you choose the unabridged version. These are both long books for those of us who like to live in the fictional world for extended periods. And that is the beauty of Victorian novels. They last and last...

So far Jane eyre is my favorite, because I LOVE the banter between the 2 main characters. I also really liked how they fell in love with other more because of their personality's and less because of physical attraction, which is rare in literature, and to a certain in real life to.

Even quarterly videos would be perfectly fine. An interesting video (later) would be “Reading ideas for when you’re in a slump.”

Life has its ebbs and flows. Sometimes our heads are just not in a good space for reading. We need to give ourselves permission to just live life sometimes. Short stories, audiobooks, rereads, lighter reads… When my brain needs to coast, my go to is Agatha Christie.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of WH. It’s so interesting hearing which books other people love. My list overlaps yours in several places. Other favs include: Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Jane Eyre, and Woman in White

Everyone seems to hate their first time reading Wuthering heights and here i am the one who fell in love whit the book from the very first time 😂 it was like a love at first sight, i feel so weird while almost every person i know thinks is not worth reading or have to re read it 2 or 3 times more to like it.

Ahh ! Victorian literature is pure love.. Btw my favourite is "David Copperfield" can't love any other novel more than this one.

I can recommend "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy if you haven’t had the chance. A great read.

Completely understand how reading sometimes goes up and down Tori. I remember several decades ago having a bad break up and reading five books the whole year but reading wasn’t calling me and that’s ok. If I feel slumpy I just enjoy the other things in my life knowing books will eventually come back into my life. I’m sure you’ll be all fired up for Victober!

Hope you’re doing all right and never worry about not posting as much - sometimes that’s just how things are 💜

We'll still be here. ❤ I call once-every-two-weeks "fortnightly," but that might be a Britishism.

I hear ya girl! I keep thinking I'm in a slump then suddenly i find a book i can't put down. But that lingering slumpiness is in the background. You take as much time as you need!

it still saddens me that jennifer left us too soon, her channel was the first book tube channel that i subscribed to. I remember she said she loved reading about history because of ancient egypt so I will be reading Egyptian mythologies tales translated from the paypries by flinders petrie and Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by by Sophus Helle since it is oldest epic in history which started this tradition and I remember how she loved epic poetry. R.I.P jennifer.

still cant believe jennifer is gone. hope things get better for you and you start feeling better soon 💙

Reading slumps can be so discouraging when reading is your main hobby. Surrendering to it can be so powerful and freeing though! I have been reading much less than normal and loving not reading because I feel obligated but because I want to. I hope you treat yourself to lovely things in this time and feel refreshed!

Be kind to yourself! 💛

I slowed my reading way down this year, because I read too much last year and it burnt me out. I think leisurely reading like you are doing is a good idea, I have been doing this same. I reduced my goal to half of what I read last year, and am just reading what I want.

Gosh i *so* relate (i haven't even used GR since last Victober) 🙅‍♀ & im also in the midst of learning / new interests that is taking my reading time. I feel like letting go of the reins is a super healthy thing (im doing the same). Lovely to see your face & whenever u pop up is just a blessing 🙂 "We're so dramatic here on bt" 😆 i find myself being like that- they're only books! lol (i stll recommend Possession tho) 🧐💕☺

Take the time you need, Tori. Please keep us posted when you feel you can. We'll be cheering for you!🧡

I've always enjoyed your channel and understand that you need a break. After all, reading should be fun--not a chore.

I read somewhere, and this may well be true, that Jane Eyre has been made into a movie or TV mini-series more than any other classic novel.

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights certainly the most well-known. But Tenant of Wildfell Hall tends to also rank highly in these lists by readers who have read all the Brontes' novels. All 3 sisters share in the glory. And remember, unlike sports won-loss records, there is no authoritative objective criteria for ranking works of art.

Excellent mash-up of several of my favourite things 😅

Glad you had a good readathon 😊

I really enjoyed reading Wilkie Collins‘ novels The Woman in White and Moonstone. But on the other hand I had heard so much praise of Middlemarch, but I was not able to finish it, I just lost interest somewhere along the way.

I’m just SO over TS. It’s really to the point of over-saturation of mediocre music. But I still love your channel 😅