Welcome to Litsy!

4 ⭐️s
Certainly different than any film adaptation I‘ve ever seen. I quite enjoyed it though. It‘s not as much of a fast paced adventure but more of a comedy/drama with humor and intrigue as its strong points. 17th century France certainly had a different idea of what “honorable” looked like. 😅 Lady de Winter had a much larger role and is definitely not a sympathetic character. The Musketeers each have their unique personalities. ⬇️

Athos trolling the prison guards had me laughing so hard!

I never knew Athos, Porthos, and Aramis weren‘t really their names but more like nicknames. I‘m loving this book so much. ❤️

This will always be the song I associate with The Three Musketeers. 😅❤️ I know it‘s obvious, but it is what it is. 🤷‍♀️

https://youtu.be/ofA3URC1wyk?si=FNZ15z1BYzn_XK1m

#BookNotes

I made a 20 book long list for Book Bingo this month and what do I do on the 1st? Pick one that‘s not on the list! Thank goodness for those free spaces! 😅🤣

Pro tip: if you are making a #14books14weeks2023 list, you shouldn‘t put 5 classics on it if you actually would like a chance to complete the challenge. You definitely shouldn‘t include this one…I‘ve been making my way through this all month and am SO ready to be done with it!
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

I enjoyed reading this classic book. I loved the plot of the book and the characters were great. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars. This is the seventh book completed in the #RushAThon readathon hosted by @Andrew65

A little late in the month, but up next, my #doublespin for July.

It‘s also on my #14books14weeks2023 list (8 of 14)

@TheAromaofBooks @TheHeartlandBookFairy

The adventure and intrigue make for a great story.

Here we go! My stack for the #14books14weeks2023 challenge: read 14 books in the 14 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day! All of these are books I own but have not read with the exception of 2 library books. I can‘t wait to cross them off my TBR! Thank you for the invite, @CoverToCoverGirl and thank you for hosting, @TheHeartlandBookFairy 📚

Want to join in the fun, @Kelly326 🥰

Wow I‘m so glad to be done with this book… it was for a book club and although it is a classic and the story and writing have their merits, I just really did not enjoy reading it. I felt like the story was way too long and had us shooting off in random directions the whole time. I will say in the end everything was addressed and closed up which is why it‘s getting a so so and not a pan.

Have you guys seen the trailer for the upcoming Three Musketeers?! I read Dumas' book a few years ago & was completely engrossed by it. There have been numerous movie & tv versions but this 2 part film adaptation starring Vincent Cassell & Eva Green looks very very promising!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAaSEZpa4cE

This is an amusingly silly caper. The plot is pretty meandering and twisty - you can tell it was initially written as a series - which is a bit hard to follow at times. It's quite the thriller at the end. And D'Artagnan is an endearingly hot-headed idiot.

#OnThisDay in 2002, celebrations began in France to honour what would have been the 200th birthday of author Alexandre Dumas. The celebrations would continue throughout the year, culminating in Dumas' ashes being interred in the Pantheon to lie in honour with other great authors of France. Then President Jacques Chirac acknowledged the racism that had kept the celebrated author from his rightful place of rest. #HistoryGetsLIT

#ReadHarder challenge 13: an adventure story by a BIPOC author

#TheThreeMusketeers #AlexandreDumas #book #books #bookdesign #bookdesigner #bookdeal #bookdealer #bookdragon #bookdragons #bookfeature #bookfeatures #bookfair #bookfan #bookfandom #bookfever #bookfanatic #bookfrenzy #bookgeek #bookgeeks #bookgeeky #bookgang #bookgasm #geek #geeks #geeky #bookhoarder #bookhoarders #bookhaul #bookhauler #bookholic #bookholics #bookheaven #bookjunkie #bookjunkies #bookjunky #Classics #Fiction #HistoricalFiction 💗💗

#chunksterchallenge2022
This book was such great fun. So many hilarious, raucous scenes with the Musketeers. And Milady - what a villain! She was terrifying. The final 200 pages I couldn‘t put down and read straight through. Onto War and Peace!

I truly enjoyed the marvelous work of the narrator Guy Mott who gave each character a distinct voice and even managed to have a singing voice of a woman and did that well. I‘ve never seen any of the movies so the story was unknown to me. I enjoyed it and see why we are still reading it and retelling it after hundreds of years.

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 154.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 127th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

This was a little tricky to get into at first; the story took a while to get going, which is understandable given its source, but about two thirds in I found it unputdownable and I really enjoyed the story. I would recommend as a good read, but be prepared to persist with the initial slow start.

My LAST Amazon book haul! Gotta do this to hold myself accountable. 🤓🤪😁

#ccspin #ClassicsClubRound2 Am listening at 1.4x; I hope I can create enough listening time to finish by May31st. Esther needs to walk 15+ miles a week, right?

“In this fallen world, even good men have demons in them.”

3 stars

I took a month-long break from THE THREE MUSKETEERS so I could get my money‘s worth out of Scribd, but I dove back in this week and finished it this morning while I made an ugly (but delicious!) king cake. It was fun, and it got me thinking about how 19th century serial fiction operated much like TV did in the 20th century. There‘s an overarching plot, but Dumas is more interested in keeping things going than in resolving anything. #audiobaking

Another dull, slushy #audiowalk took me to 3:27 for #20in4. I‘m having a blast with the book. The weather I could‘ve done without, though I‘m grateful it‘s at least warm enough to be outside for longer than two minutes.

Lunchtime #audiocooking! I planned to stuff the other half of my flatbread with bleu cheese, but I decided I wanted something more substantial. My favourite fake mapo tofu recipe (minus the tofu) was the perfect thing.

Please note, also, that this is the third time I‘ve tried to read THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This time, I‘m in exactly the right mood for Dumas and I WILL succeed. Bring on the verbose, ironic shenanigans!

A quarter way thru and I was not feeling this, at all. So onto spark notes about the why of what I‘d read (an 1800‘s author with a 1600‘s tale to tell), and how is was originally written in serial segments for a magazine. I continued to read a spark notes section then the actual book (and even audio). It all helped and I‘m done! I‘m giving it a pick because I did it, but boy from today‘s perspective - these are 4 privileged white guys.

I'll be wrapping up my #Booked2021 #Winter rec's today. I admit, the #mustacheoncover prompt involved some lengthy research, so I look forward to seeing what others come up with!

I've read 3 of these, and liked all of 3. Can you guess which ones they are?

? I wrapped up listening to ‘The Three Musketeers‘ (narrated by John Lee ) last night and am looking forward to more epic, melodramatic, swashbuckling tales from Alexandre Dumas pére!
Stunning ending and, John Lee delivered the whole of the book with measured pace and clarity. ?? ⚔️

Image: Milady confronted by the Man in the Red Cloak, D‘Artagnan and, the Three Musketeers; Illustrated Junior Library Edition; Grosset & Dunlap; 1980 reprint

🎧 Ah, from reading/listening to books set in Victorian England to Swashbuckling 17th-century France! It looks like I‘ve found another biblioverse where I can escape to! Ridiculous, melodramatic and fun, this is the first of seven tales featuring D‘Artagnan. John Lee is hit-or-miss with me and this time he‘s a hit 🙂
🇫🇷⚔️

Paying homage to my other favorite Classic. If you ever feel intimidation by reading classics, I suggest starting here. Action on every page.

Porthos is my favorite supporting character.

I have been enjoying North and South. I enjoy reading classics and this was new to me.

#NovelWatchingCrew #NWC @ElizaMarie @AsYouWish @AkashaVampie

PS The BBC series was fantastic.

This one is a bit tough to rate as I really enjoyed the first half but the second half just lost me. I enjoyed hearing about the Musketeers‘ shenanigans at first but then when Milady started having more of a presence I stopped liking the plot really fast. The audiobook also wasn‘t the best quality which didn‘t really help. Book 6 for #ReadingEurope2020 #France @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Doing some #audioknitting today and trying to make progress in the tagged book. I still have over ten hours left so I might even finish these socks before it ends😅😂

Seventh grade reading the tagged book was the first time I remember feeling like this. I lost my copy 2/3 in, and it was over a month before I found it. I kept flipping back, and back, and back, and nothing felt familiar. I cried. I have STILL never finished this book because I couldn‘t bear having to start over. Someday, though...

Some #audiopuzzling today! I‘m taking a break from writing my thesis and decided it would be a good time to start a new puzzle😄

What an obsolete story of white male rich privilege... this is just a bunch of late-medieval frat boys running about fighting and getting women into trouble and NOT getting them out again... it was free and the narrator is great, but this is just a waste of time. ⚔️

This book is riddled with so much misogyny I had to put it down. Everyone, including the women, has bad things to say about women. I know internalized misogyny is real and I know the “it‘s a book of its time” argument, but I can only tolerate so much. When a musketeer, a “hero,” says upon hearing that his friend‘s crush was kidnapped: “I do not know a woman that is worth the trouble of being sought for when she is once lost,” I‘m just done.

I double-dipped for this one...especially since it took me so long to read.

#Booked2020 #MakesYouLOL

@4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

#ReadingEurope2020 #France
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

My work schedule has been complicated and exhausting the past few weeks. It has made reading and Litsying difficult. But today, I've got my feet up and am enjoying the sunshine while trying to concentrate on my #ReadingEurope2020 #france selection. My brain is just mush, so I may have to switch to something a bit lighter that requires less brain power. For now, though, my butt is going no where! 🌻🌻🌻

Compared to other books from this period I think this has translated to modern readers less well. I did get into it in the end though it took me around 500 out of 700 pages to do it, whereas the Count of Monte Cristo was engaging straight away. I thought Milady was a delightfully evil villain who I loved reading about but the musketeers themselves came off very foppish and annoying to me in the twenty first century.

Day 12: Friendship Goals ❤️❤️❤️❤️

It's #TomeTopple time.
I love this read-a-thon so much since I usually tend to avoid those big books and this is a perfect time for me to focus on them (I do keep a shorter book near if I get discouraged so I can read it quickly and motivate myself)

Since Feb is black history month I decided to include this book on my TBR.
I'm still having thoughts on my TBR but I'll put my current in the comment.

This will be fun. Are any of you participating?

I am starting The Three Muskateers today and am excited about it! I have never read it, plus, it's part of the Stitching Book Club on Instagram. (@stitchingbookclub) If you are a cross-stitcher, check it out. It is a 4 month read-a-long/stitch-a-long and the first part of the pattern was released today. This is also the first of four classics for the year. The Secret Garden, Frankenstein, and A Christmas Carol are the next three.

It has been more than 20 years since I read it the first time, with a different translation. While problematic for a modern audience, particularly in the treatment of women, when looked at through the lens of the time in which it was written, The Three Musketeers is a highly entertaining, swashbuckling adventure tale. Dumas is a little verbose, but I still love him. I‘m looking forward to continuing the series, half of which are new to me.

This is how I‘m spending my afternoon: #Bailey snuggles, reading in bed, and a snack that matches my book cover. I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing Sunday!

It‘s a little early, but here‘s my #weeklyforecast:
❣️reach page 566 in the tagged book for my #yearofdumas
❣️finish The Luminous Dead (print)
❣️finish The Windfall (audio)
❣️at least start, if not finish, one more of my Book Riot TBR backlog

I have an MRI scheduled Tuesday morning, so I‘m taking the whole day off work and hopefully will be able to get a bunch of reading done afterwards. 🤞🏻

The weather forecast for the next few days is not kind for anyone who has weather-triggered migraines. Today was not great, but I‘m going to try to read at least half an hour before calling it a night, to continue making progress in my #YearofDumas book, while #Bailey snuggles up against my legs. Goodnight, Litsy. 💖

Translator Richard Pevear throwing shade at other translators. 😆 It will be interesting to see how his translation holds up to my memory of the version I read 25+ years ago.

My #ProposedTBR for January: finish the three “in progress” reads following me into the new year from December (not pictured is the digital ARC of The God Game), the first of my #YearofDumas reads, and the books that have been recommended over the last 5 quarters by my BookRiot bibliologist that are still unread. But first, a nap to sleep off the XL mimosa from New Year‘s brunch. 🤣🤣