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Ch 12: #wrathsnack #backtoback #route66 #moreswindlers #goodpeopletoo #suchhardship #staytuned #joadstomorrow #hashtagbrigade

I‘ve reached the “holidays” in the book. I‘m not sure if that means winter holidays but it‘s a good excuse to post another image from another dish from my grandmother‘s Old Curiosity Shop dishes.

Reading how popular this serialization of this book back in the day, I now understand why these dishes were made. Even the book description calls it the Harry Potter of its day.

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This book has taken a very very dark turn. Oh my heart hurts for Little Nell!!! I wouldn‘t have thought Dickens could go to such heartbreaking places. And I‘ve read enough Dickens to see an immense range of emotions. But dang, this is brutal. (I removed spoilers and replaced with ellipses.)

We definitely needed a bit of humor from Mrs Jarley deciding not to become an atheist.

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But this is what she does instead:

“But instead of adopting this course of retaliation, Mrs Jarley, on second thoughts, brought out the suspicious bottle, and ordering glasses to be set forth upon her favourite drum, and sinking into a chair behind it, called her satellites about her, and to them several times recounted, word for word, the affronts she had received.”

😂😂😂

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Ch 11: #wrathsnack #naturetakingover #shortshortchapter #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

Just watched the new Frankenstein movie on Netflix. I‘m a huge fan of the book and this adaptation skewed pretty far from the source material. I wish it had been truer to the book! But it‘s beautifully shot, and Jacob Elordi was brilliant as the Creature.

I'm taking part in the St John's Ambulance #12BooksOfChristmas challenge this year. If anyone could donate, I'd really appreciate it! But what I'd really love are book suggestions and encouragement 🥰

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Abi1762444701527?utm_medium=FR&utm_source...

My first read of Frankenstein, October 2025 in time to watch the new movie. So much wonderful language in here, and one of my fav parts of the movie was when the word Countenance was used. One could have a Countenance drinking game while reading this. Frankenstein is a whiney bastard who always runs from the problems he‘s created at the expense of his loved ones; the monster more human than human. The movie lacked so much of this.

“Once, after a meeting, while she was still speaking in tongues, she fired both barrels of a shotgun at her husband, ripping one of his buttocks nearly off, and after that he admired her and did not try to torture her as children torture bugs.”

Wait, WHAT?! 😳😂
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I‘m getting biscuits while we listen to the tagged book

#whattheDickens @Cuilin