Litsy

Part 2: Rochester takes over the tale #becauseAistotallycrazy #rochesterwaspaidtomarryher #theytrickedhimforsure #thatsicknessofhismakesmewonder #Granboiscreepsmeout #AshalfbrowritesRaletter #heconfirmsthatRwastricked #yikes #RGetslost #obeah #voodoo #funtimes And now it‘s back to A narrating! #shevisitsChristophine #sheasksforsomevoodoomagic #RcallsherBerthanow #WTF #allhermoneybelongstoRnow #shestrapped #hashtagbrigade ⬇️⬇️⬇️

BarkingMadRead Back to Rochester
#danielwantshushmoney #berthahadathingwithsandi ⁉️ #berthaissadallthetime #shedrugsR #soofcoursehesleepswithamelie #whatcouldgowrong 🤷🏻‍♀️ #Aisnothappy #lotsofbitingandbrokenglass #ChristophineblamesR #shedoesntknowRHasturnedherin #CasksRtopaythemoffandgo #hemakesCleave #offtoajamaicahetakesA #hashtagbrigade 3w

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Aimeesue The Bertha thing is so creepy. NO ONE likes the name Bertha as a lovely and mellifluous name. Liar. (edited) 3w

BarkingMadRead @Aimeesue it is 💯 messed up. So gross and super passive aggressive 3w

Aimeesue @BarkingMadRead so controlling. Red flag! Red flag! 🚩 Sigh. Too late. 3w

Bookwormjillk I keep confusing Rochester with Max DeWinter. We keep reading about these messed up men who believe themselves to be victims. 3w

Librarybelle I was so confused when the narration kept changing. Admittedly, this one is a bit of a struggle for me…I feel like I‘ve not found a good rhythm yet with the writing, and we‘re near the end! 3w

mcctrish @Librarybelle I keep wondering if I‘m the crazy one because WTF is happening 3w

5feet.of.fury The Bertha thing, separating her from Christophine… husband is a creep. Wish the zombi got him 3w

mcctrish @Aimeesue Bertha is brutal 3w

5feet.of.fury @Librarybelle yeah, I do not get this one. I read through 2 pages & had no idea whose POV or what had happened. 3w

Librarybelle Glad I‘m not the only one, @mcctrish @5feet.of.fury 3w

IndoorDame @Bookwormjillk This actually does remind me a bit of Rebecca in the sense that all of the characters are unreliable, but there‘s still something about all of them that draws you into their worlds when they‘re the ones talking, and the whole place is intoxicating and bordering on fantastical. 3w

willaful I continue to have no memory at all of having read this.

I'm furious and disgusted with Rochester. He's totally yellow-wallpapering Antoinette. 3w

willaful @Bookwormjillk yup! 3w

Clare-Dragonfly I still don‘t get why Richard wanted Antoinette to marry Rochester so badly. She had plenty of money, she could have lived independently! @IndoorDame Yes, I was also reminded of Rebecca, and you‘ve articulated why very well! 3w

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I wonder if he just didn‘t want to feel responsible for her anymore? She would have been fine by herself, I don‘t know why he felt the need to marry her off 3w

julieclair I am so disappointed in Rochester. He used to be one of my book boyfriends, but now he‘s off the list! 3w

TheBookHippie Sorry I bailed. Too much life going on to read this darkness. 😵‍💫 3w

BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie you do you! No judgement here! 3w

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BarkingMadRead

Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

Ch 4: and now we know what happened to Rebecca #butfirst #hoppyissick #ummmmmm #whatdowecallthenarrator #suggestionsplease #asiwassaying #narratorisfreefortheday #awkardlunchwithmax #awkwardcarridewithmax #almostsuicidewithmax⁉️ #yikes #howhetalksaboutmanderleythough #staytuned #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

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IndoorDame The intro to my copy points out that she is only ever “the second Mrs de Winter” (and it has some very pointed things to say about that 😂) but that‘s quite a mouthful so I think she‘s gonna need a nickname 2mo

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BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame I totally agree. We have to call her something 🤷🏻‍♀️ poor thing never has a name, although we know it‘s a pretty one and also unique. Super helpful. 2mo

IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead I‘ve often wondered what constitutes a “unique” name for a white woman in England in the 30s 2mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame probably something so chill now 2mo

Ruthiella Her name is Jan Brady, forever doomed to be overshadowed by Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! I mean, Rebecca. 2mo

IndoorDame @Ruthiella 👏👏👏 Sold! call her Jan 🤣 (edited) 2mo

Ruthiella Also, it‘s so awkward when your first date is an attempted murder/suicide! 😱😆 2mo

CatLass007 @Ruthiella You have a wicked sense of humor! I like that in a person. 2mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 🤣☠️🤣☠️ 2mo

BarkingMadRead Omg @Ruthiella #janbrady FTW 2mo

Bookwormjillk Jan 😂 🏈 2mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella Jan is perfect! 2mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig I need to find a book about gardens in DDuM books. "The daffodils were in bloom, stirring in the evening breeze, golden heads cupped upon lean stalks, and however many you might pick there would be no thinning of the ranks, they were massed like an army, shoulder to shoulder. On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like pallid snowdrops.⬇️ 2mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig The primrose was more vulgar, a homely pleasant creature who appeared in every cranny like a weed. Too early yet for bluebells, their heads were still hidden beneath last year‘s leaves, but when they came, dwarfing the more humble violet, they choked the very bracken in the woods, and with their color made a challenge to the sky....People who plucked bluebells from the woods were vandals; he had forbidden it at Manderley." 2mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig So many flowers in this Chapter. I highlighted so many. 2mo

Roary47 @Ruthiella I love it! Jan is who I will imagine her to be. Plus we don‘t know her actual age either. Are they on a date showing she‘s older than a child? 2mo

BarkingMadRead @Roary47 I get the idea that she‘s an adult, but maybe a bit younger than Max 2mo

Ruthiella @Roary47 I am reading a bit ahead. I think in chapter five it‘s confirmed she is 21. 👍 But Maxim is “old enough to be her father”, so 35 to 40 years old, I imagine. 🤔 2mo

Clare-Dragonfly @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, the descriptions are so vivid and wonderful! I can see the flowers so clearly! 2mo

Bookwormjillk These chapters are long but they don‘t feel like it. 2mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree! 2mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Crinoline_Laphroaig These descriptions are so vivid! 2mo

julieclair I am really appreciating du Maurier‘s beautifully descriptive prose this time around. I don‘t remember noticing it as much the first time I read this. 2mo

ElizaMarie I agree with “Jan“ as her name for now... But wouldn't it be wild if her name is Daphne? I mean, if I were an author, maybe I would name a character after myself and then say how beautiful the name is repeatedly. 2mo

BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie that‘s a brilliant point! 2mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Oh, my nose! Oh,my nose! 😂😂😂 2mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk As opposed to our last book! #oy 😂🤗🤩 2mo

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BarkingMadRead

The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 7.1: soooooo monks can be a$$holes too 🤷🏻‍♀️ #putridsmell #pettymonks #yikes #thatescalatedsoquickly #somuchhate #devilseverywhere #staytuned #thebros #hashtagbrigade #SWFG #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 4mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 4mo

willaful Oooo, I've never seen the fourth before, and it's the best one! 4mo

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Bookwormjillk Allrighty then. Wow. Also what's with the cherry jam? 4mo

CatLass007 I must confess that I bailed a while ago but I‘m still enjoying your daily posts. 4mo

mcctrish According to my tracking on Goodreads we are 54% of the way into this monster and the elder has died, kitkat is still hysterical?, Mrs Coca Cola has sent Ratman as a spy and Aloysha just bailed on the hermitage so next up a marriage and a murder? 🙏🏻🙏🏻 and some air freshener hopefully 4mo

BarkingMadRead @CatLass007 🤣🤣 #imheretohelp @mcctrish so much as happened and yet so much still has to happen 🙄 4mo

CatLass007 📚💕 4mo

TheAromaofBooks I was under the impression that this was about a murder/trial, yet here we are 400 pages in and no murder yet! 😂 4mo

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks talk about a slow burn 🤣🤣🤣 4mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish 😂😂😂 4mo

mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks we are the ones who will die from all the blah blah blah 4mo

TheAromaofBooks @BarkingMadRead @mcctrish - For REAL 😂 4mo

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BarkingMadRead

The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Unabridged Edition): A Philosophical Novel by the Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 3.10: yikes! That was a lot #alyoshavisitskaterina #Gisthere 😳 #theymadeal #butwait #Gwaskidding #becasuesheisevil 👿 #andsheoutskaterinaspast #yikes #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

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TheBookHippie Whew😅😵‍💫 4mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @peanutnine @bklover @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 4mo

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Bklover I have ALMOST caught back up. Have had a hard time with pretty much everything this month- on the 6th my best friend of twenty years died suddenly and I‘ve been a mess. I should be all caught up by tomorrow morning! By the way love the tshirt idea!!👕 4mo

currentlyreadinginCO G is a lot!! 4mo

BarkingMadRead @Bklover oh, I‘m so sorry for your loss! Sending all the hugs! 4mo

Bklover Oh thank you! I miss her every day, but I‘m finally getting back to my normal schedule! 4mo

TheBookHippie @Bklover oh I am so sorry.. my bff of 30 years is terminal ..it‘s hard. Take care of you. (edited) 4mo

Bklover @TheBookHippie You as well! I‘m sorry about your friend. Tami was 64, same age as I am. Seems way too young. It‘s hard losing friends. You take care of you as well. ❤️ 4mo

TheBookHippie @Bklover my friend Connie is 67. It is too young. 4mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Bklover I am so sorry! Sending you much love and hugs! 4mo

Bookwormjillk @Bklover so sorry for your loss 4mo

TheLudicReader So sorry to hear about your friend, @Bklover 4mo

mcctrish @Bklover I am so sorry for your loss 4mo

mcctrish This chapter was NUTS! #thebroshavemettheirmatch 4mo

KAO @Bklover I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. Wishing you peace and sweet memories. 4mo

Bklover @Graciouswarriorprincess @Bookwormjillk @TheLudicReader @mcctrish Thank you so much for your kindness! It helps so much having friends like you all. Litsy friends are wonderful!❤️❤️❤️❤️ 4mo

AllDebooks I mean, where do you start? 😏 @Bklover sending you hugs on seeing your sad news x 4mo

Bklover @AllDebooks Thank you! Litsy helps!!❤️❤️ 4mo

dabbe @Bklover I have no words except to say how sorry I am. You are in my thoughts. 💜🩶💜 4mo

AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie & @Bklover 💔❤️‍🩹😢🫂🙏. (edited) 4mo

TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal ♥️ 4mo

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Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ch 3.9: I wonder what Pops wants to tell Alyosha?!? #anyway #dmitrithinksheseesGenterthehouse #heloseshisdamnmind #knocksoutGrigory #stompsonPopsface #yikes #shesnotworthit #grigoryissooffended #poorgrigory #pops 🤷🏻‍♀️ #iguessifeelbadforhimtoo #maybenot #staytuned #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

5feet.of.fury So obsessed with Grushenka. I say this a lot, but this chapter was really chaotic lol 4mo

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mcctrish Absolute chaos @5feet.of.fury and because FD loves wind bag speeches that go on and on and say nothing, I feel like Fyodor will die tonight having promised to say something and yet not #cuzthatshowweroll 4mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I was thinking the same thing! We will never know what he wanted to say, and why he didn‘t want Ivan to know! 4mo

dabbe This pic says it all. 🤩😍😂 4mo

TheAromaofBooks Do you think the fact that the author gave his own name to the most obnoxious (debatable) character means anything?? 4mo

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish yup expecting a funeral for Pops tomorrow (not a spoiler just no expectations of this chaos getting resolved.) 4mo

currentlyreadinginCO I was wondering that, too! @TheAromaofBooks . I wonder how common the name Fyodor was at the time ... I feel like there are never that many Russian first names in novels and so it might not be that odd to have a namesake character? 4mo

TheAromaofBooks @currentlyreadinginCO - I keep thinking about the way Jane Austen created the most beautiful, kind, sweet, universally-loved character in P&P... and named her Jane 😂 4mo

currentlyreadinginCO Love that @TheAromaofBooks 😂 4mo

Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks ha! 4mo

Aimeesue @TheAromaofBooks Lol! 4mo

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#TLT @dabbe

I think I had too much fun with this one. 😂
HS years: 1979-1983
1. The 80s mullet. #yikes
2. Acid-washed jeans or denim. #everywhere
3. Shoulder pads. #goodlord
4. Big-ass hair. #seriouslyjustdont
5. Socks outside your Reebok high-tops. #why
I'd love to see your answers! Consider yourself officially tagged! #alllittens

CatLass007 I kind of miss shoulder pads. Not the ginormous ones but something to give my sloping shoulders some shape. 5mo

dabbe @CatLass007 I really never could find ones that fit properly; they all were bulky and stood out. I wonder if you can even buy them today? 🤔 5mo

Susanita I love it! 5mo

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CatLass007 If I was looking to buy some small shoulder pads these days, I‘d check a fabric shop. But even they might not have any. 5mo

TheBookgeekFrau I was in HS from 83-87 so ditto your list. But I would add "eyes by crayola" all that blue mascara and purple eyeliner ?? 5mo

dabbe @Susanita 🤩😍😘 5mo

dabbe @CatLass007 That's probably the best place to look besides Amazon--which sells ANYTHING! 🤩 5mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau OMG yes! And midnight blue eyeshadow mixed with hot pink! My dad once told me my eyes looked like my boyfriend had beaten me up! 🤩😂😍 5mo

CatLass007 You can find anything on Amazon except true love. 5mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 😂😂😂 YES!!! The color combos did give bruised 5mo

AnnR Now #5 is a good strategy to keep the ticks and spiders from crawling up your pants while doing outdoorsy work. (I know. Ugh!) 5mo

dabbe @AnnR 😂😂😂 5mo

dabbe @CatLass007 How true! 🖤💙🖤 5mo

bthegood OMG- same time period, same styles - I have thoroughly enjoyed reading peoples memories of their fads/fashions from 70s on up! Thank you - this was a fun #TLT 😎 5mo

dabbe @bthegood 🤩😂😍 5mo

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TheBookHippie

The Women Could Fly: A Novel | Megan Giddings

So if I‘d known so much Michigan was in here 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 so close to how the people in my town are it‘s almost PTSD .. #yikes
Trying to finish it is a struggle
Also I was sent to the island in Lake Superior as a teen 👀
🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐

That‘s all -carry on -I‘ll see you all this weekend OY VEY 🥴
#independentwomen BuddyRead

Cinfhen, BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB That sounds tough! Hope you‘ll be there though, this weekend! 1y

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB I‘ve only thrown it twice 🤣 I‘ll be there because SOMUCHTOSAY.. (edited) 1y

Cinfhen Oy VEY is right!!! So sorry, Christine xxx 1y

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vlwelser You know you love it there. 1y

vlwelser I officially regret not picking the de Beauvoir. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser I love de Beauvoir. Love. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser it‘s 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 reading this 🤮 1y

TheBookHippie @Cinfhen 🥴 Used Bookstore can have it… 1y

vlwelser I bought it. Planning to read it soon. I love her writing. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser oooo we should add one of hers to 2024 👀 1y

vlwelser Yes. But something not enormous. Because I like to read the original and my French isn't quite so fast. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser she has some short ones -now I need to research 🤣♥️.. (edited) 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser The Woman Destroyed is 256 👀 1y

vlwelser La femme rompue. Yes. But I feel like I just read that. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser I‘ll read any of it 👀 even rereads. I love how she writes. 1y

vlwelser I will reread that. It's amazing. And short stories. 3 maybe? So no spoilers. I'm bound to have missed something. 1y

vlwelser 😂 do you feel any better about MI? Or did I just ruin it? 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser I hate it here just waiting for son to graduate then outta here … 2.5 years yet.. 1y

vlwelser How long is this one? Sorry. On a train. I realize that's an annoying question.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

TheBookHippie @vlwelser 384. Ohhh that‘s a good number 1y

vlwelser There are a lot of options but those are maybe my top 2. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser looks good to me. 1y

TheBookHippie @vlwelser little freaky -where I live you better be married by 20,28 you‘re pushing it 🤣 lots of similar crap -I just felt seen, ppl are pretty alt right religious shitty here. Homophobic bigots… 🥴😵‍💫🤮 1y

vlwelser We had those where my mum lives. I basically never go there. Makes my skin crawl. 1y

Cinfhen My copy has already been donated!! 😂 1y

TheBookHippie @Cinfhen 🤣🤣🤣😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 1y

TheBookHippie @Cinfhen I didn‘t vote this one in 🤣👀🤐 1y

Cinfhen My instincts were off on this one 😬🥺 1y

Cinfhen The synopsis sounded good 😭 1y

TheBookHippie @Cinfhen I get that -we‘ve been burned on #sundaybuddyreads from time to time 😵‍💫 1y

Reggie Lol 1y

TheBookHippie @Reggie It was a whole mess. I did take some vignettes out of it but otherwise 😵‍💫. 1y

Reggie I loved it and can‘t wait to discuss!!! 1y

TheBookHippie @Reggie I think the setting messed me up😜 1y

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