Victober 2024

[Madeleine]

What's everybody reading? I've just started "The Dance of the Serpents", the 6th book in the Frey and McGray series, off to a cracking start so far.

[Hayley]

On 10/12/2024 at 11:47 AM, Madeleine said:

What's everybody reading? I've just started "The Dance of the Serpents", the 6th book in the Frey and McGray series, off to a cracking start so far.

It’s such a good series - I’m genuinely sad that I’ve read them all and there won’t be more 🥲

 

When I’ve finished my current book, I’m thinking of either going for The Way of All Flesh or Bone China by Laura Purcell (which I’m pretty sure is set half in the Victorian era) but I haven’t decided yet 😄

[lunababymoonchild]

12 hours ago, Hayley said:

It’s such a good series - I’m genuinely sad that I’ve read them all and there won’t be more 🥲

Me too

[Madeleine]

Me too,  I'll miss these characters. 

[KEV67]

On 10/14/2024 at 10:16 PM, Hayley said:

It’s such a good series - I’m genuinely sad that I’ve read them all and there won’t be more 🥲

 

When I’ve finished my current book, I’m thinking of either going for The Way of All Flesh or Bone China by Laura Purcell (which I’m pretty sure is set half in the Victorian era) but I haven’t decided yet 😄

Don't recommend The Way of All Flesh. I ended up hating the bloke.

[KEV67]

I am reading Lorna Doone, which is a Victorian historical novel set around 1685. The Victober challenges on YouTube were to watch a play, read a book with a frame narrative or other unusual narrative style, read a book about religion, read a book that was originally serialised, read a book either by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Wilkie Collins, and to read a book by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but I cannot remember which one. I thought about participating, but I did not like the challenges. Lorna Doone does not meet any of them. 

[Hayley]

On 10/16/2024 at 10:04 PM, KEV67 said:

Don't recommend The Way of All Flesh. I ended up hating the bloke.

Oh no - is he meant to be unlikeable? 😅

 

On 10/16/2024 at 10:10 PM, KEV67 said:

I thought about participating, but I did not like the challenges.

No, they don’t sound particularly appealing to me either. Apart from reading Arthur Conan Doyle or Wilkie Collins - I love both of them anyway 😄

[KEV67]

2 hours ago, Hayley said:

Oh no - is he meant to be unlikeable? 😅

I had not considered that possibility. He came across as incredibly self satisfied.

[Madeleine]

finished my choice last night, another cracking instalment in the Frey and McGray series, a rollicking read!  Only one more to go now.... in the meantime I'm about to start my 2nd Victober read ,"The Highgate Cemetery Murder" by Irina Shapiro.

[KEV67]

I think Lorna Doone would have met one of the YouTube's Victober challenges. There is a bit of religion. Lorna's a Catholic and John Ridd is an Anglican. I expect it is not an unsurmountable problem.