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“Of course,” the inspector remarked, with the naivety of the corrupt, “if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.”

Volume 3 🎉🎉🎉

#chunksterchallenge2023 @Amiable ~ almost half-way through!

#bookreport @Cinfhen

Continued top 2, started bottom 2!

This one has been staring at me for over a week, waiting for me to dive in for @AllDebooks #rereadtheclassics #buddyread (except it‘s a first-time read for me!)

I‘ve been trying to clear the decks a bit by finishing my current chunkster (The Agony and the Ecstasy), but tonight I decided I‘d better get started! I‘m going in. Wish me luck. 😁

Repost for @AllDebooks:

#Rereadtheclassics #Buddyread

Diving into this marathon read over March/April. I hope it's as exciting as I found it as a teen.

All welcome to join in. Please do let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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#Rereadtheclassics #Buddyread

Diving into this marathon read over March/April. I hope it's as exciting as I found it as a teen.

All welcome to join in. Please do let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents @jenniferw88 @nanuska_153 @MilesnMelodies @BookwormAHN @CrowCAH @BarbaraJean

I‘m a lot behind but wanted to play! #wondrouswednesday Thanks @Eggs tagging me!

1) tagged—my fave book last year. I still think about it every now and then
2) I have to love it without reservation to be a five-star book; books I really like get 4, books that are ok get 2-3. Really bad books get 1/2 star
3) Sometimes. I did a lot as a teen. Listening to some songs now still brings back thoughts of the books I read listening to the same song.

@alldebooks is hosting this #rereadtheclassics for March/April . Let her know if you want to join in the discussion!

#Rereadtheclassics

My #buddyread selection for March/April. Warning: This is a hefty tome, weighing in at 1200+ pages. So, it will be a super relaxed readalong.

All welcome to join in.
@Chunksterchallenge2023 @Amiable

@nanuska_153 @MilesnMelodies @BookwormAHN @BarbaraJean

First milestone reached! #chunksterchallenge2023 @Amiable

Chapter 31.

#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Continue Count, Darwin & Melmoth. IF I finish Darwin, I'll start Emma.

@Amiable Just started Volume 2! Luckily I am enjoying it.

Just wondering, can we change our books if we read a book that fulfils a category before we get to the planned one? #chunksterchallenge2023

Spending the weekend in bed with some serious sinus issues 🤧, but using the time to start my #superchunkster read!

#ChunksterChallenge2023
@Amiable

The Count of Monte Cristo is my all time favourite. I love it so much I even have a tatoo. I read it back in high school and I still remember hoe much I loved everything about this book, especially the count's perfect revenge plan. 🖤🖤🖤

#readtheclassics

@Cinfhen #weeklyforecast

The Count will be staying there for some time!

Continue:
Count of Monte Cristo
The Postcript Murders

Finish:
American Sherlock
Jamaica Inn

Start:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

I‘m so glad I read these classics. They were all amazing. But the Count consumed me for weeks and I could read nothing else. It was worth every minute.

#chunksterchallenge2022

Challenge Wrap-Ups to come

I‘m calling it on the year‘s best book. There‘s no way I‘ll read better between now and year‘s end.

This is embarrassing though. I quit the brackets in August because I couldn‘t choose a favorite book in the first 8 months. But in hindsight, the cat took the lead by a hair. 😁🐈‍⬛ In the end, the Count beat them all.

So so many good books I read this year that didn‘t even make it into the #readingbracket2022

This book is the ultimate revenge novel, but with a little of everything: romance, pirates, murder mystery, betrayal, adventure, travel. Dantes was thrown in a dungeon on trumped up charges & after escaping and becoming insanely wealthy, he seeks insidious revenge on the culprits who put him there. It was impossible for me not to cheer him on. My only frustration was how he “helped” 2 lovers at the end; it was written to be a kindness but I ⬇️

Truth. I can tell you all about The Count of Monte Cristo right now. 😁

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Finished! 55 hours!! #chunksterchallenge @Amiable

Review to come but I can tell you now it was a 5-star read

Have I got a surprise! If you‘ve read the Oxford edition of this book, then you do not have this chapter!! I sometimes follow along the audiobook (which is unabridged) with my son‘s Oxford edition. And there between two paragraphs there should be this chapter (the subject is in the comments only if you want to read a spoiler)!

9 chapters to go! And thanks for the cards, cutest little angel, and Santa bookmark!

@LiseWorks @Deblovestoread @Catsandbooks @Bookwormjillk ❤️❤️❤️🎄

I‘m on chapter 100!! 17 to go. And about 6 hours left of 55! So close!

#chunksterchallenge2023

I figured it was time for an update. This is the only book I‘m reading right now. It‘s pretty all-encompassing the brain cells. Only 40 chapters left to go!

#chunksterchallenge2022 @Amiable

Here are some of the cards I‘m making while listening to the tagged book, which is so good

My son‘s been reading this one so I thought I‘d try the audio. 52 hours of audio. #chunksterchallenge @Amiable

⭐ ⭐ ⭐Three cheers to @zezeki for completing #ChunksterChallenge2022! It took TWO YEARS to get through it -- she started it for #ChunksterChallenge2021 but lost steam, so she tackled it again this year. And finished! AND she enjoyed it! I'm so proud of you. This is the very definition of persistence. Hooray! ⭐

I finally finished this classic adventure story, after working through it slowly the entire year. I found the Penguin Classics Robin Buss translation to be very good (compared to the Project Gutenberg one).

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I really need to learn to stop reading my childhood favorites and just let them be. I didn't love this this time around. Too much going on and not in a good way but in a "meet the word count" way. I am sad.

To raise my spirits, I have included a pic of Henry Cavill from the CoMC film he was in. So young then. This is apparently one of the times that I prefer the movie over the book.

This is what happens when the high school screws up your new junior‘s schedule and gives him two study halls. He‘s showing them. He‘s 350 pages into this chunkster.

For those who follow me on Instagram it‘s my kid who wore his Oxford university T-shirt when he visited Cambridge this summer. 😂

It‘s been a decade since I first read this & it was just as powerful the 2nd time around. The scenes with Dantes in prison remains some of my favorite from any book. I love his relationship w/the Abbe. The whole plot is an incredible example of patience & slow-burning revenge. There‘s a lag in the middle where the plot gets distracted, but other than that it‘s incredible start to finish. When it all comes together it‘s hard not to cheer out loud!

Happy Birthday to Alexandre Dumas 🎂🧁🎈🎁🪅🎉
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The Count has all his chess pieces in place and things are starting to come together. I can‘t put it down!!

This book was absolutely amazing!!! Felix loved the string ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ i loved all the characters and how everything came together. I highly recommend this classic it‘s worth the 1200+ pages. Part of me would love if they would do right an HBO series. I mean the book has everything perfect for a twisty drama series.

On vacation decided to finally read The Count of Monte Cristo📚📚📚 Felix and I are Liking it so far 😻

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“My darling,” said Valentine, “the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words: Wait and hope.”
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I have been on such a BUMMER kick of “blah” reads (sorry for all my “so-so” reviews 😕) that I just want to throw out a blurb and say I am loving this book. It‘s exciting! I actually don‘t know where it‘s going all the time, and it‘s exactly what I want out of a novel. 😄

Alexandre Dumas had some SPICY OPINIONS!

#SavvySettings #23 Prison
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Betrayal, heartbreak, isolation – Edmond Dantès experiences all of that (& more) in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.

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