Books and Things 39K subscribers · Sep 1, 2022

Victober 2022 | Announcement and Recommendations [CC]

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I love David Copperfield. I think it's fantastic. It is long, but it is very accessible, and because it's in the first person, I think it's one of Dickens's slightly more accessible books, definitely one I'd recommend for this challenge.

Liked

I also wanted to recommend Hester, where we're following a young woman called Hester as she moves to a new town with her mother, interacts with lots of new people and begins to find her feet.

Loved

Jill is a wonderful, very different, very unique, fantastic novel, which is about a young woman who is from a wealthy background, but is bored at home so decides to run away and become a lady's maid, and we follow her life and her adventures. And it's very, very wonderful.

Loved

And I also wanted to mention Love and Mr. Lewisham by H.G. Wells, which is a book about a young man who is training to be a teacher about his relationship with the people around him and his kind of struggles between love and kind of ambition, I suppose. It's a really fantastic read, one I definitely recommend.

Loved

I love Olive. It's one of my favourite books of all time. I'm thinking I might actually reread it this Victober, and it's a fantastic coming of age story, a wonderful Bildungsroman and I would really highly recommend it.