I'M A VICTOBER HOST!! 🫖 🍰 2025 #victober announcement

Welcome to my victober 2025 announcement, I can't actually believe I got to film this! I'm so honoured to be a co-host for the 10th edition of Victober. All the info you'll need: 00:00 intro to victober 00:54 the co-hosts ‪@katehowereads‬ ‪@katiejlumsden‬ ‪@BlatantlyBookish‬ ‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬ ‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬ ‪@HannahsBooks‬ Jess    • Victober 2025 Announcement & Recommendations   ‪@royreadsanything‬ ‪@takingteawithcatherine‬ 01:44 the challenges Find recommendations by clicking the channel names above. Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction). Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.) Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading. Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti). Read a Victorian work that discusses education. Step back in time—read a Victorian work set in a different era. Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition. Read a Victorian work of fantasy. Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen. 03:39 the colourwheel 04:26 the tiers Completed 1–3 challenges = Mr Micawber level Completed 4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level Completed 7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level Completed 10 challenges = Dracula level 05:19 group read Hester by Margaret Oliphant 2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (with 3 chapters on the final day) 07:00 my recommendations Find the editions I mentioned here: Penguin Clothbound: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/CLOT... Penguin English Library: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PENE... Wordsworth Editions: https://wordsworth-editions.com/serie... Yellow Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole Orange Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Green Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë The Time Machine H.G. Wells Pink Christina Rosetti poems Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Purple Silas Marner by George Eliot Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Red The Odd Women by George Gissing Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Blue Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Oscar Wilde fairy tales Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Multicolor: De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Join the Discord:   / discord   find me in other places - INSTAGRAM:   / milena.reads   THE STORYGRAPH: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile... ETSY: https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/MilenasB... TIKTOK:   / milenareads   WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... book clubs & readalongs - Paws and Pages 🐕 🐈‍⬛ Announcement video:    • New Bookclub announcement! #booktube #book...   Instagram:   / pawspagesbookclub   🌾 Thomas Hardy Readalong Announcement video:    • Thomas Hardy Readalong announcement!  star...   Discord:   / discord   Business inquiries: milena.reads(@)gmail(.)com