#victober — Public Fediverse posts
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Fiz parte de um painel de avaliação do #WikiLovesEarth2025 e no fim recebi da #WikimediaEspana esta surpresa. Claro que usei logo a caneca com chá enquanto lia sobre a Elizabeth Gaskell na Wikipedia España 😍
https://wikimedia.es
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #ElizabethGaskell #Books #Reading #Victober
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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Sci-Fi #Victober #ProjectGutenberg – #books you can read right here, right now, no excuses 😍
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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Sci-Fi #Victober #ProjectGutenberg
Frederick Waddy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I'm reading through Anthony Trollope's six volumes of the Chronicles of Barsetshire - you can check the links to the ebooks in my last year's post here - and loving it, but for Victober I thought I would pick a more shorter, standalone book from the same author. I came across The Fixed Period…
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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Sci-Fi #Victober #ProjectGutenberg
Frederick Waddy, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsI’m reading through Anthony Trollope’s six volumes of the Chronicles of Barsetshire – you can check the links to the ebooks in my last year’s post here – and loving it, but for Victober I thought I would pick a more shorter, standalone book from the same author.
I came across The Fixed Period, which he wrote later in life and is considered a satirical dystopian novel. And this is so different from what he usually wrote that I got really curious and decided to pick it up. I’m still in the introduction, but I thought I would share the link to Project Gutenberg, where you can download the book. (No luck in finding it in a physical format, so thank you even more to Gutenberg volunteers!).
Also, although a satirical dystopian work, you may want to check your trigger content warnings.
The Fixed Period – Anthony Trollope can be downloaded here.
#AnthonyTrollope #books #Classics #Dystopian #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #reading #readings #satiricalBooks #SciFi #ScientificFiction #Victober #Victober2025
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The last #fridayreads of this #victober will be with #victorian #scifi - Flatland, from A. Square.
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Going to chapter 33 of Doctor Thorne by #AnthonyTrollope for #Victober
It's so dark (and raining) that I need the light on (I usually use the ereader in these situations, but I'm loving reading Trollope in paper).
If you want the #BarsetshireChronicles list with links to the ebooks (they're in #PublicDomain❤️) I made a post at
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/victober-chronicles-of-barsetshire-by-anthony-trollope-with-links-to-the-ebooks/ -
#Victober starting (essay with link to ebook @gutenberg_org)
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/victober-starting-essay-with-link-to-ebook/
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#Victober starts tomorrow. If Trollope is on your radar, I wrote a post with links to the ebooks at @gutenberg_org of Chronicles of Barsetshire series.
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#Victober Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope (with links to the ebooks)
I found Anthony Trollope recently and after devouring The Warden and Barchester Towers, I'm starting Doctor Thorne, the third in the six novels series. Victober is a month-long readathon, created by Katie Lumsden, of reading Victorian literature. The main prompt to participate is to read a book of Irish and British literature published or written during the reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901, but every year there are other prompts created by the hosts.
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@paulasimoes I'm doubling up! A Victorian ghost story, to finish #victober and celebrate #halloween : tonight I'll read Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost", also in #PublicDomain !
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To finish this year's #Victober, I'll be reading a book of Oscar Wilde's short stories.
I've enjoyed "The Picture of Dorian Gray" when I've read it decades ago - but Wilde got into writing plays, and I was never fond of reading plays (watching them, yes!). Other than that, Wilde wrote short stories, but the fact that they predate Dorian Gray, and the fact they are short stories have made me postponing its reading (I do occasionally read short stories, but I confess I'm not a fan of the format).
Victober finally made me pick this one from the shelf: "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories" is an unfortunate name to this collection of short stories selected by Borges, since the story that gives it its title (Lord Arthur Savile's Crime) was indeed first published on a collection of short stories also called "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories"... but with a different selection of stories. In any case, this will give me a good taste of Wilde's shorter fiction, and, who knows, show me what I have been missing...
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After a couple of #Victober cheats, now it is time to read an actual victorian novel: I'm going back to H. G. Wells like last year, this time with "The First Men in the Moon", his last "Victorian novel".
This is a fist read for me: I tended to avoid 'no longer plausible' science fiction (and, well, this is a book about the first time men goes to the Moon, before it actually happened, in a 'slightly different' manner 😉), but this is proving to be a pleasing, humorous reading.
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Still on my "cheating #Victober saga", once again I decided to pick up on a book that is not a victorian novel, but a sequel (well this is not a sequel but a 'book inspired by') of a victorian novel I've read in last year's Victober. Last year I decided to read Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" for the first time in my adult life, and this year I picked up "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau", one of the nominees for this year's "Hugo Award for Best Novel".
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I decided to cheat on this year's #Victober : instead of reading a victorian book (last year I started with "The Diary of a Nobody", on the left in the picture), I got myself reading sequels to previous Victober books, starting with "The Diary of Nobody's Son" (on the right in the picture).
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My choice for this year #Victober
After a awful week in terms of health, and not feeling quite myself yet, I decided to go for #Middlemarch by #GeorgeElliot
