Add me to the list of those who just couldn‘t bear to stick with a chapter a day! WOW! I pretty much didn‘t see any of that coming, and yet it all made perfect sense. Du Maurier was a master. #PemberLittens #hashtagbrigade
Add me to the list of those who just couldn‘t bear to stick with a chapter a day! WOW! I pretty much didn‘t see any of that coming, and yet it all made perfect sense. Du Maurier was a master. #PemberLittens #hashtagbrigade
My reactions to reading this in my teens and early 20s: what Gothic romance, oh, Byronic Maxim! Ah, love! I loathe Rebecca! #theylivedhappilyeverafter
My reactions as someone in her late 50s: The unreliable masochistic narrator is desperate for a father-like husband with the last name de WINTER (sterility, coldness) and a first name of Maxim (a rule of conduct) to be completely submissive to. But did I still love it? YES. #agirlcanstilldream
4✨ This book was a true work of art. Starting off with the pure symphony of descriptive writing. The twists and turns were amazing, and completely unexpected. This is one I‘ll need to read again because there is so much depth I‘m pretty sure I missed something. While I don‘t like the relationship or the fact that I know the narrators thoughts, but not her name was an interesting element. Definitely would recommend.
Reading and flipping between the Dodgers and the Rangers games this afternoon with a favorite little treat. Having an early #hyggehourreadathon as I‘ll be driving home later this evening from a weekend of pup sitting.
“It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.“ #hashtagbrigade
“It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.” #hashtagbrigade
#FillYourCupFriday
Had a rough 3 days at work (4 deaths) I‘m exhausted caring for others and their grief. I need to do some productive things (which helps) and just process my own thoughts and feelings. Nursing is hard on you.
(Might add shopping to this - the car dealership is near target)🎯
I am HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS of this costume suggestion Danny has provided. Did Rebecca always dress as this portrait? Or will Jan look like Rebecca when she is dressed up? It‘s too easy… something awful is going to happen. This is a long chapter! #hashtagbrigade
“Then I heard a step behind me and turning round I saw Mrs Danvers. I shall never forget the expression on her face. Triumphant, gloating, excited in a strange unhealthy way. I felt very frightened.” #hashtagbrigade
“For one desperate moment I thought that something had happened to my brain, that I was seeing back into Time, and looking upon the room as it used to be, before she died… In a minute Rebecca herself would come back into the room, sit down before the looking-glass, and she would see me too” #hashtagbrigade
Chapter 13 - #ChapterADay (#INeedToReadAhead)
#HashTagBrigade #SomethingFishyGoingOn
#PemberLittens
@BarkingMadRead
“Oh, God, I thought, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms.” #hashtagbrigade
“And then I knew that the vanished scent upon the handkerchief was the same as the crushed white petals of the azaleas in the Happy Valley.”
#hashtagbrigade
“…I had the odd, uneasy feeling that I might come upon something unawares, that I had no wish to see. Something that might harm me, that might be horrible. It was nonsense of course,”
#hashtagbrigade
Ch 9: Jan meets the fam #butfirstshefindsthewestwing #itsforbidden #nonotreally #couldntresist #danversisherusualcreepyself #beatriceisfun #ifeellikethatsthemostinfowehavegotten #ifonlyshestayedlonger #janistheantirebecca #isthisgoodorbad #staytuned #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens #marshamarshamarsha
'Of course, she said, you know why he is marrying you, don't you? You haven't flattered yourself he‘s in love with you? The fact is that empty house got on his nerves to such an extent he nearly went off his head. He admitted as much before you came into the room. He just can't go on living there alone…‘
#hashtagbrigade I‘m curious what you guys think ⬇️
@BarkingMadRead #HashtagBrigade instead of my usual #BoringKindle cover this month I‘m going with the audio version I already owned. The audio for this is kind of cool. There are subtle sound effects so every once in a while you hear a tea cup hitting a saucer or melancholy music. (Also has anyone watched this on Netflix?)
#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView (thanks for the tag ... you, too, @The_Penniless_Author)
1. The tagged, REBECCA. It been three decades since I've read this one, and I'm excited to revisit it. Also, I can't wait to see the movie after starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.
2. Nope. I have too many to read as is! 😂
Play? @Catiewithac @TheLudicReader @ShelleyBooksie
“We have both known fear, and loneliness, and very great distress. I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end”. #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade
Let‘s do this #hashtagbrigade Hoping this well loved copy makes it through the month. The pages feel like tissue paper at this point. Needless to say I‘ve read the old girl quite a few times. Always good each time! #pemberlittens
The very boring cover of my e-book cannot dim my excitement about re-reading Rebecca with the #HashtagBrigade this month! @BarkingMadRead
I took a break from my chores to run down town to the bookstore for this one. Stopped into the used bookstore (never been in as they are never open when I walk by) and although they didn't have the book, I ended up chatting with the owner for almost 2 hours 😮. Ended up getting this copy at the regular bookstore 🩵🩷🩵 #HashTagBrigade
This is the edition that I will be reading from for the April #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade pick. It is pretty but it‘s poorly bound, unfortunately - too tight to read comfortably, so buyers beware of Virago naked hardbacks.
I‘m very excited to go back to Manderley this month! I read Rebecca years ago and enjoyed it so much. Thanks to #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade for enabling the revisit!
#hashtagbrigade I‘m super psyched to be starting this one with you all (and Cassandra) this morning! It‘s one of my all time favorites! I think this will be my third read. Revisiting Manderly seems like a great trip to take for my birthday month ❤️
Very excited to start reading Rebecca with #hashtagbrigade tomorrow @BarkingMadRead
Check out my haunted looking 1st edition
& a shoved inside the book was this cut out article, (1944?- look at the ad!) +the inscription inside
@Cuilin thank you for the lovely package! All three books are so pretty! The bookmarks are really cool and I always enjoy Reese‘s!
Thank you @KateReadsYA for organizing the #LitsyFoundFamilySwap!
Ok #hashtagbrigade it‘s time to start thinking about our April book! We will be reading Rebecca, which only has 27 chapters 🎉🎉 we will finish with a few days off before our May book. Anyone can join us, so if you‘d like to read along, please know that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the hashtags until you‘ve read the chapter! I am tagging the whole brigade, so let me know if you‘re in! #pemberlittens
I just started this one & I'm already hooked. 🤍 The descriptions in this book are sooo vivid!
I had read the first chapter back during #scarathlon, then was distracted by other reads, but I finally finished, and it is very much a classic. A slow burn Gothic horror with tons of atmosphere and dread.
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView !
1. Around 15 years ago. I hate moving. 😂
2. I definitely need to do a reread of the tagged book.
#Two4Tuesday
Browsing about Cornwall, I came across several articles about Menabilly House, du Maurier's inspiration for Manderley. This is Daphne with her children at Menabilly, which she leased for 26 years. The details in Rebecca of the second Mrs. de Winter becoming enamoured with Manderley as a child while on holiday mirrors du Maurier's own experience with Menabilly.
https://www.tatler.com/article/menabilly-the-real-manderley-rebecca-daphne-du-ma...
"There was a strange buzzing at the end of the line, and then a voice came, low and rather harsh, whether that of a woman or a man I could not tell, and 'Mrs de Winter?' it said, 'Mrs de Winter?'
'I'm afraid you've made a mistake,' I said; 'Mrs de Winter has been dead for over a year.'"
This is such a fantastic scene in the book, showing how unsure of herself and her identity is The Second Mrs de Winter ? I so want to reassure her ?
"'The rest of the tangerine is sour, I shouldn't eat it,' he said, and I stared at him, the words going slowly to my head, then looked down at the fruit on my plate. The quarter was hard and pale. He was right. The tangerine was very sour. I had a sharp, bitter taste in my mouth, and I had only just noticed it."
This incident at the breakfast when Maxim proposes marriage to the narrator feels foreshadowy ??
The overbearing Mrs Van Hopper peevishly remonstrates with the future Second Mrs de Winter for neglecting to collect her Taxol medication. Wondering what Taxol is a remedy for, I was initially surprised to see it's a cancer treatment, then seeing it was developed for that purpose well after the book's publication, dug further to find the name was previously used for a constipation preparation. ⬇️
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Hmm, this one's a bit overdue, but all good things...
I am thrilled to join the club of readers who have enjoyed Rebecca. The elegant writing and fascinating story were a true pleasure. The opening chapters were beautifully written and had me mesmerized while also curious about this place called Manderley. After I finished the book, I immediately reread the first couple of chapters. It felt fitting, as the beginning was just as significant as the ending.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com
How is it already Halloween and the last day of #scarathlon??? This month always goes by so fast. For the final day of #autumnplease here‘s one of the great literary costumes, the narrator accidentally dressing as Rebecca
#skeletoncrew
#wondrouswednesday
1) I can‘t remember how old I was when I first read Rebecca but I was young. I became so enamored with it I would re-check it out over and over again from the library
2) Many. When my kids were young they‘d come to every grandparent event at school. They share in so many happy family times!
3) My 35th wedding anniversary—husband secretly took a woodworking class and made me a handmade pen. Oh my ❤️
Oh, how exquisitely tense this was.
And that Mrs. Danvers is a piece of work.
A newly wed wife is completely overshadowed by the wonderful late wife of Mr. DeWinter.
I enjoyed this book but felt like it could have been cut in half if the main character and her husband spoke to each other about what was bothering them.