
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
We get to finish it !!!!!!
See you next week for the ending π‘οΈ
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
We get to finish it !!!!!!
See you next week for the ending π‘οΈ
@DebinHawaii @Crinoline_Laphroaig @vlwelser @Catsandbooks @BookBelle84 @katy4peas @Sparklemn @PageShifter
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Alisa
βIt‘s YOU?β
The photo
What the what β¦. She‘s clearly SHOOK
Rosalind gets attacked.
What is going on?!
π
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Oliver controls Priest ?!
He tells Celia.
Has to be Phoebe?????
Where is these peeps mother?
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Rosalind poisoned herself π«
So Rosalind is outted by Phoebeβ¦!!!
My my brothers sisters drama oh my- WHAT?!
Celia warning Rosalind !!!
Thoughts ?!
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Orion & Rosalind
I like them
Too good to be true?
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Phoebe sheβs interesting β¦
βBut you like your pastriesβ is a plus π
Phoebe Alisa Silas - who is what to which alliance π΅βπ«
https://healthynibblesandbits.com/coconut-buns/
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ZHOUZHUANG
This was in our last books yes?
Also mentions Celia was there oftenβ¦
Itβs mentioned enough in passing- I wonder whatβs what ?
https://www.chinahighlights.com/suzhou/attraction/zhouzhuang-water-town.htm
http://www.china-tour.cn/e/wap/Show.php?classid=92&id=245
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All the worlds, a stage, and all the people merely players ..I have a different exit and entrance -Jiemen hmmm I donβt like him -donβt trust him you? Why havenβt we been to hospital again? The handler thing-weird?
π·Shanghai fun Etsy find https://www.etsy.com/listing/1067882336/
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Freaky vial with green stuff -all the peeps murdered chemical warfare OR The chemicals trying to make more people like Rosalind? Or WORSE?!
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
βWe don‘t need to pick up a torch when we can manipulate the wars fire before it starts β¦β
So this phrasing
Who is being manipulated -everyone in the story?
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Good late morning readers β₯οΈ
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
See you next week for chapters 31-39
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG π
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=dhp
Chinese and European prostitutes lived and worked in
Shanghai's French Concession, catering to all the ethnic groups in the city. After the establishment of foreign concessions placed Shanghai under semi-colonial control, French & Chinese culture combined in the city to create a unique urban landscape that was unlike anywhere else in the world.
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG FOOD
Muffins https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/chinese-egg-cake/
https://mymotherlee.com/brown-fatt-kueh-steamed-chinese-muffins/
QΔ«ngcài ιθ
qΔ«ng cài
green vegetables
Chinese cabbage
https://www.jamesbeard.org/recipes/shanghai-golden-egg-dumplings-with-chinese-ca...
https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-cook-bok-choy/
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG Russians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Russians
http://shanghaisojourns.net/shanghais-dancing-world/2018/8/21/shanghais-white-ru...
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009520/borscht-on-the-bund-the-russian-diaspora-...
https://www.culture-shock-shanghai.com/blog/influential-community-of-old-shangha...
https://avezink.livejournal.com/19766.html
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https://depts.washington.edu/triolive/quest/2007/TTQ07032/yuen/battleofshang.htm...
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Priest is a girl..
Let the guessing beginβ¦.
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Celia..
Wise to not fully trust Oliver ?
Needs to get to Rosalind ..
Which sister is protecting which sister?
Newspapers a clue? They‘ve been brought up since the first of the book.π€·π»ββοΈ
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Interesting Rosalind put Alisa in jail
So β¦. Silas β¦knows Alisaβ¦
Silas & Phoebe break Alisa out.
Phoebe⦠what a hoot.
Thoughts on all of this?!?!
Phoebe⦠Silas is in love with her or ????
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Orion seems to care for Rosalind ?
His fathers talks with her OYβ¦
Rosalind was-gasp-jealous?
Rosalind & Orion
Arguing in car and then BOOMπ
That chase -their teamwork!
His headache attacksβ¦
Communist militia..
Rope?
Also the shaving scene β¦π³
amongst others they are falling for each other .. π
Whatcha think?
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Tolstoy
βEvery unhappy family is unhappy in its own way β¦β
Or is Rosalind right and it‘s all the same ?
Anna Kareninaβ¦swoon
Read it?
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Who attacked Rosalind and Dao Feng ?!
Why?
Weird at hospitalβ¦suspicious?!
What the what?!
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Rosalind overhearing Deoka the ambassador..when do imperialist care about history? Colonization, provoke fear to control⦠taking over nations -tale as old as time, reasons not seen or underlying reasons⦠I like the way the book is subliminally teaching this message of truth, in my opinion anyway.
Have you thought about the book in this way?
Also she coulda killed him and didn‘t at this pointβ¦
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Alisa..
Saw more than and knows more than everyone realises?!
Knows they are alive !
Hmmmm
What does this mean?!?!
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Phoebe mail from orphanage chill down her back foreshadowing ?
A clue? A warning ?
Questions start here follow hashtag
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Chapters 21-30 discussion prompts will be posted tomorrow πβ₯οΈ until then enjoy this dress
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83978
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Chloe just posted this 20 minutes ago on IG !!!
I updated previous post with the cover. I‘m quite excited.
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Part 2 is out September
So π€·π»ββοΈ we will have to plan this - suggestions?
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I think that‘s itβ-did I miss anything??
I am truly loving this read!!!
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Chapters 21-30 for next week!! Litsy was a little glitchy for me this morning. Hopefully you can make it work for you. Some of the spoilers wouldn‘t open π΅βπ«π
π¬π±
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Chinese hairpin-https://www.newhanfu.com/8919.html
https://thewoksoflife.com/zongzi-recipes/
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/hair-adornment-of-ancient-chinese-women/...
https://www.nspirement.com/2021/03/19/history-of-traditional-chinese-hair-access...
https://ziseviolet.tumblr.com/post/620316469923823616/hello-i-see-that-you-posts...
Had to do it π°ππ°β₯οΈπ
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FOOD
Bamboo soup https://thewoksoflife.com/yan-du-xian/
Slow cooked pork hock https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-braised-ti-pang-pork/
Cumin lamb https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb/
Zongzi https://thewoksoflife.com/zongzi-recipes/
Alllll the good and tea mentioned ILOVEIT
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Odds&Ends
A file to get Priest identity..who is Priest?!
Where is Orion and Phoebe‘s mother really?
Tong Zilin
So who did she kill?
Haidi hmmm what or who is she
Why so strong π΅βπ«
The sexual identity of everyone Chloe put on Twitter -I like that it just is, and isn‘t a focus -you know like real life π
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Rosalind & Orion
Off to the club β¦
She kills an idiot
Alisa helps
He leaves her to speak to his father
Headaches ??
Father seems suspicious -also kill your own son?!
Pretend marriage going well..
What do you think of them ?
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Ashkenazi Jewsβ¦I about dropped my book on this mention https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-and-austrian-jewish-ref...
https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/shanghais-forgotten-jewish-pas...
I did know Jews were in and fled to Shanghai just wasnβt expecting to see it in print ..
Side note ππ°
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Celia & Oliver
1.What was that warehouse ?!
2.What was in the crate in the office Rosalind was in ?
3.newspaper ?
4.Nation over everything
5.Oliver hadn‘t thought of her?!
I‘m not sure what to think of them or him actually.. you??
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Rosalind keeping Celia close and secret, interesting ..
Shanghai powerless β¦so she‘s it?
Rosalind‘s father trying to reach herβ¦
Also do we trust Dao her handler ?
Rosalind‘s guilt for her past -is it clouding her entire life?
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
Chemical deaths ?!β¦.
Stuffy secretary -where was she going ?
Another death
The car Phoebe recognizing the plate
ππππso stuffy secretary ?!?
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Phoebe is Orions real sister β¦
Is she trustworthy ??
Silas ??
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Alisa and Rosalind have a chat
Liza Ivanova
Benedikt & Marshall safe and married in Moscow!
She‘s in a tiny apartment paid for by ??
She‘s looking for the same file !?
Alisa & Rosalind then become partners of sorts -
Good team ?
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As You Like it
Character list in case you want to compare and contrast Iβm still just going with the flow β₯οΈπ
https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/as-you-like-it/character/whoswh...
https://www.playshakespeare.com/as-you-like-it/characters
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/as-you-like-it/read/characterL...
I remember being taught the theme was loveβ₯οΈπ
Fashion
https://irenebrination.typepad.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2013/05/shanghai-gl...
https://www.historic-shanghai.com/the-evolution-of-shanghai-fashion/
I love picturing the fashion !!!
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Here we go week two questions follow the hashtag!
#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
1. Favorite:
- Fall
- cheese pretzels
- mint
- hibiscus, hydrangea, magnolia, lilac
- anywhere fantastical, take me out of reality
- cold: strawberry Lemonade
hot: caramel apple cider
- what do you meme
2. Tagged
#wondrouswednesday
Wanna play? @CurvyCrochetGirl @OriginalCyn620 @StaceGhost @Texreader
#ChloeGongReadALong see you tomorrow β₯οΈ
Ch 12-20 discussion will be posted -answer whenever you‘re ready.
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG
See you next Wednesday for CH 12-20
https://www.inspiringquotes.com/10-timeless-chinese-proverbs-and-idioms/Y_AFmPP1...
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Food
https://www.historic-shanghai.com/a-short-history-of-gluttony-in-shanghai/
https://www.historic-shanghai.com/old-shanghai-eggnog/
https://www.ltl-shanghai.com/shanghai-breakfast/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_cuisine
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So we need to know who priest is..
Orion‘s friend Silas is a triple agent
Not confusing at all π
Green bow tie man not real and Orion metal taste that can‘t be good β¦
Phoebe β¦whoops too chatty?
Good start? How are ya liking it?
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Well well well
Helllllooooo Alisa Montagova
Now, I imagine, the fun beginsβ¦
Here we go ..