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". ![A picture of "The Daughter Of Doctor Moreau"'s book cover (paperback)]()

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". ![A picture of "The Daughter Of Doctor Moreau"'s book cover (paperback)]()

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... A picture of the Portuguese edition of Babel's Library "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories"

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). A picture of two books, "The Diary of a Nobody" and "The Diary of Nobody's Son".

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). A picture of two books, "The Diary of a Nobody" and "The Diary of Nobody's Son".

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... A picture of the Portuguese edition of Babel's Library "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories"

**R to @mind_booster: And to finish it... #Victober** And to finish it... #Victober ⌘ Read more

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. ![Two editions of H. G. Wells' "The First Men in the Moon", one in Portuguese, from 1902, the other in english (with an introduction by Lisa Tuttle).]()

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. ![Two editions of H. G. Wells' "The First Men in the Moon", one in Portuguese, from 1902, the other in english (with an introduction by Lisa Tuttle).]()

**And so, it starts. #Victober** And so, it starts. #Victober ⌘ Read more