Victorian October 2022

This October (as always) I will be participating very loosely in Victober. 

My list of novels have been chosen very very loosely from the prompts. I am not a real prompt following readathon kind of reader.

I read by mood, by time of year, atmospherically and by being called to what my soul feels it needs from literature at that phase of life. 

THIS can't be dictated by readathon schedules and prompt schedules. I do find joy in reading or watching other people's book lists centering around Victober particularly.

Source: List Challenges

What I'll be reading:

1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (a reread for me)
2. Jane Eyre (a reread for me)- sensing a theme here? And I'll be watching the screen adaptation
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker. This will be my first read of this! I recently finished Shelley's Frankenstein and LOVED it so so so much.
4. A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoevsky (short story) I know. He wasn't a Victorian over in Russia, but he wrote at the same time as the Victorian period and therefore it counts to me :) I may not get to this one with my other reads during October, but it is on the list

I basically read Victorian literature all year long, but I just love the idea of reading atmospheric Victorian or gothic novels at this time of year. 

I'm excited by my choice of novels for my loose participation in Victober alongside Volume III of In Search of Lost Time- The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, and Lispector and Brookner reads.

How glorious it is to have my kindle and bookshelf full of fantastic reads and rereads as Autumn comes!

Do you have any reads or rereads that you are looking forward to?

Happy reading my slow living friends.