Yah! I have finally been able to edit this and get it up - and all before the end of the first week of November, woo-hoo! Victober was a mixed bag. I did finish the two titles that made up the four challenges, but the other books I'd hoped to read... well, that didn't go so well.
Sorry this is so short. Hopefully as Christmas gets closer I can find the time to get some more blogging in. Until then, I hope you had a more successful Victober than I did. Let me know what your favourite book was in the comments, and until next time,
Okey-dokey, then. Just thought that I'd put together a super quick (for me) video to chat a little bit about where I am with my Victober reading - keeps me honest! - and about the latest book I'll be adding to my TBR shelves after watching Mara's "Where to Start with Classics" video.
One of these days I really need to do a TBR bookshelf tour to see exactly how many books I have that still haven't been read.
Sorry to run off so quickly, but I can hear a bit of thunder, and where there's thunder, there are appliances to unplug ;-D, so a big thank you for watching, and until I see you next time,
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,
Yep, I'm calling it. October was a dud of a reading month. I only got one book from my Halloween Reads/Victober TBR read, Jane Eyre, and that was it until the last two days of the month when I picked up Trail of Lightning and The Palace Job.
What happened? I had such plans... well, Netflix happened. Yes, I joined the Netflix cult and became engrossed with all the Halloween goodness that was on offer. I binged Ghost Wars, Superstition (great premise), The Haunting of Hill House and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina when they dropped, and whatever spooky movies or series that caught my eye. Let's face it, Netflix is addictive.
Thankfully, I seem to be past the first flush of the Netflix thrill, and have already read a few more books since I filmed this on the 2nd of November. Perhaps I'll even pick up a King book this month? ;-D
Anyway, with a heatwave on the horizon here in QLD (predicting 37°c today) I should be able to get a bit more reading done while I sit in the comfort of my lounge room and bask in the wonder that is the AC. The weather is just all over the place at the moment. Usually not this hot until end of December, start of new year.
Is anyone else finding the weather unseasonable? Let me know below if you are, and until I see you next time,
So, my October TBR is coming along pretty well. I am taking part in #Victober this year, as well as my own Halloween Reads challenge.
Victober
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
Halloween Reads
Thornyhold - Mary Stewart
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
Of these five books, I have so far completed Thornyhold and Jane Eyre - both on the 1st of October - but since then I have not picked up anything else from my set TBR. I did read Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness (which I bought on the 28th September), and one historical romance on my iPad, but since then I signed up for a trial of Netflix, and I have been hooked! ;-D
This weekend I am planning on starting one of the four short novels from Four Past Midnight, maybe Secret Window, Secret Garden?, anyway, I won't be missing out on any Stephen King because I can now watch Gerald's Game and 1922 movies that they adapted for Netflix.
A proper review video for Jane Eyre, Thornyhold, Time's Convert and whichever Stephen King I finish, will be up later in the month. Until then, I'm heading back to catch up on some Netflix.
Yes, I have decided to toss my tiara into the ring and join #Victober 2018.
My plans were to start slowly and in Jane Eyre I found a book that actually fulfills all five challenges set by the hosts.
A book by a hosts favourite Victorian author - check ✔︎
Read a Victorian novel with a proper pronoun in the title (persons name/place name) - check ✔︎
Read a book published in either the first or last decade of the Victorian era - check ✔︎ Jane Eyre was first published in 1847
Read a novel written by a woman under a male pseudonym or published anonymously - check ✔︎
Read a novel and watch a screen adaptation - check ✔︎
Victober was created by Katie Lumsden over at BOOKS AND THINGS, and is co-hosted this year by Ange from BEYOND THE PAGES, KATE HOWE, and Lucy from LUCY THE READER, who all have Victober Announcement video's up on YouTube and I have linked them above if you are interested in watching them, or if you would like to participate this year.
So, as well as reading Jane Eyre, I will
also be attempting the book chosen for the readalong which is Wives and
Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. Like
Jane Eyre, I have been meaning to read this for years to no avail.
Looks like Victober is the kick in the butt I need to finally start
these classics.
Finger's crossed that I can complete both books. I'll be updating my reading progress as the month goes along. These won't be the only books I'll be reading in October. I also want to get in some Halloween Reads and a little bit of Kingoween as well. Looks like I'll have a lot on my plate for next month.
