Hello there stranger!
Yes, it is I. It is hard to believe that I have been absent from BookTube, and this blog, for about 2 months. I have had a rather difficult time with my health - darn that chronic pain! - and that has affected my ability to a) film videos, and b) to sit down for hours to edit them.
However, I couldn't let Victober pass without at least getting a TBR out there... so, here we go.
I have listed all the links to the hosts, and other various sites/videos, for your Victober pleasure, so I won't rehash all that. But, I will tell you about the books I have decided to read for this Victober. The first is ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴍᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴀ ʙᴏᴀᴛ by Jerome K. Jerome. Although I only read this book at the start of the year... oops, last August acutally!, and I still think about some of the passages. The language is beautiful, and the characters are memorable. I love the lazy storyline, it is so simple an idea and executed so well that I'm surprised that I hear so little about this book online. A great way to spend a few hours.
Next up is ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴍᴇɴ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴜᴍᴍᴇʟ, a sequel to his much earlier novel. Not surprising since I loved their first outing up the Thames. This time round, the hypochondriac trio are off to the Black Forest on a cycling tour, with Montmorency in tow. I don't know anything else about it, and I'm going to go into this with no expectations apart from expecting more beautiful prose.
And finally, there is the underrated, and new to me, offering of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett with ɴᴇᴡ ᴀᴍᴀᴢᴏɴɪᴀ. Published in 1889, it is a contemporary of Three Men in a Boat, and as I perused the synopsis, I immediately stopped as soon as I saw 'dystopian', and I'm going into this with no idea what it is about other than that.
So, those are the three books that I'm going to be reading this October. Fingers crossed it all goes well, and I will be devouring other Victober videos so if you have made one, or have posted something on your blog about it, then leave me a link in the comments.
A big thank you for watching, and until I see you next time,
