My Sister Talks About Victorian Novels (mostly Trollope)

#victober2024

[Lu.G.]

So fun seeing y'all talk books! I'm all in for a Trollope-athon, maybe someone will volunteer! 🤓 Thanks for sharing. 📚

[josmith]

Always lovely to have a Bonnie/Catherine chat and what a great idea for a Trollope readathon. In true booktube tradition you’d have to try and make some clever link with the name of a month, like Anthony Trollope April or August with Anthony, it’s a pity none of the months start with a T 🤔

[cherylbell]

Always great to see a Catherine & Bonnie discussion!

[amandalavelle]

Lovely to see Bonnie. I wish I could talk Victorian literature with my sister! We have a good relationship and my sister does read a bit but I definitely get a blank face trying to be polite if I try to talk Trollope or Gaskell to her 😂 xx

[katehowereads]

I could watch you two talk about books ALL DAY! I'm crying over here stuck in the Pallisers series knowing that I want to get through it but I'll never love it more than Barsetshire. 😭
You and Bonnie would be more than welcome to read The Heir of Redclyffe with us in December! Sorry if I wasn't remembering if you already said you were up for it. 💜

[rickcroucher]

Perhaps Bonnie should start a channel and begin with an Anthony Trollope month? I’d definitely watch and read along.

[kathleencraine]

That was fun, especially because I read An Eye for An Eye and Man and Wife this month for Victober! They were probably the highlights of my Victober reading, along with The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant (a Persephone book). I wasn't prepared for how dark Trollope could be, although I still enjoyed it. Yes! to a month dedicated to Trollope--he wrote some nonfiction and many short stories, too, so lots of choices. Man and Wife is fast-paced--I couldn't stop turning pages--and Collins has a lot to say about the marriage laws at the time. Bonnie--a new used bookstore in Evanston called Middles Used Books, a few doors down from (& run by) Bookends and Beginnings!

[mame-musing]

I enjoyed hearing you both chat about your love for Trollope’s writing. I belong to a small book group of 4 friends. Unfortunately, only one would be willing to read Trollope. Of the other two one hates descriptive narrative (that’s every Victorian novel, I think) and the other doesn’t like “old timey books”.

[sandyokey]

I read The Woman in White this Victober also as well as The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray. Love seeing you both!

[barbarahelgaker]

Nice to see both Trollope fans together!😂

[BookZealots]

Yes! Anthony Trollope needs more love. I'm reading Can You Forgive Here for Victober and realize I've read this in high school and had forgotten. Now I want to read the Palliser's series. I have read Dr. Wortle's School and liked it. Read The Warden and didn't like it. But I do want to read that series, because I've heard the first book is the least liked, but the series is good. I'm really excited now to see which series I like the best. I'd like to know is the series you both consider better was it read first or second?
Have a lovely tea and book filled day~ 🍵 📚

[virginiaanderson]

Wish your had listed what you were speaking about, I had heard of Trollope but as you were talking about books and titles, they were misspelled in transcript so, needed some printed ideas =

[tillysshelf]

I've always felt that Trollope was for serious readers and that I'm not quite serious enough for him. I enjoyed The Warden but still feel a bit intimidated by his longer works. Enjoying Wilkie Collins this year!

[theresas]

I love you two together in the video's. 🤗

[susprime]

I've had Miss Bunting in my stack a long time, and I'll try to get to it soon. I read the first two in the Barchester Towers, I could not do another right now, but I'll get back to it. I did read The Rector by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, a short story/novella and The Haunted House, a short story by Dickens. Read a lot of horror this month and Babel, dark academia and Benighted by J.B Priestly, which takes place in a decrepit old house.😮

[wendycayless]

Do you two know about the Online Reads with The Trollope Society?

[Knee-JerkReactor]

Not a very nice thing to say about your sister.