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I‘m a bit late starting, but I got caught up listening to the first few chapters of The Mill on the Floss while taking a walk with Luthien today. I‘m not sure what I think of these two siblings yet, but I‘m looking forward to seeing where this goes.

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BarkingMadRead

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 12h

Tamra 😘 12h

ElizaMarie Awe beautiful walk with a lovely companion 💛💛💛 2h

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BarkingMadRead

Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

Ch 6: #kiddrama #arguingovercake #tomandmaggiearetoomuch #siblingrivalry #tomandbob #typicalboys #rathunting #animalabuseirritatesmethough #bobcheats #tomgetssoworkedup #hypocritemuch #boyswillbeboysiguess 🙄 #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @cuilin @mcctrish @deblovestoread @dabbe @julieclair @ruthiella @clare-dragonfly @thearomaofbooks @daisey @quietjenn @morr_books @leftcoastzen @kwmg40 @alldebooks @eeclayton @sparklemn @bklover @elizamarie @kao 19h

Bookwormjillk Did Bob cheat or was Tom just mad? I couldn‘t tell. Wish he would go back to school. 19h

Ruthiella Yes! Poor Yap! And that cat! 😭 19h

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dabbe I am not liking Tom at all. So high and mighty and always wanting to exact justice! Maggie adores him yet he abuses her. All of them do, except the father seems to favor her a bit. Childhood can be so brutal. And the animal abuse? Horrific. 🤬 18h

mcctrish This chapter just had me mad, Mr Tulliver telling Mrs Tulliver to invite them all and she‘s like “the work of it, more food to make, leaves for the table, dishes to get out” and no one‘s helping her and none of them get along as he puts on his hat and strides off 18h

rubyslippersreads If there‘s animal abuse (especially cats), I think it was the right choice for me to skip this. 😼 17h

ElizaMarie I hated Tom with his little mind games with his sister here. She adores him. And did everything she thought she could to make him happy - offered him the better piece and everything! Ugh! He is mean. 16h

TheAromaofBooks Honestly both Tom and Maggie scare me in their own ways 😂 15h

Morr_Books @TheAromaofBooks Agree! 15h

Morr_Books I am weirded out by the conversations between Maggie and Tom. It seems more like a marriage than a sibling relationship. 15h

Morr_Books A lot of serial killer tendencies (killing of animals, etc.) with some of these characters. Not at all what I was expecting from this book. 14h

BarkingMadRead @Morr_Books 💯 on both, I definitely wondered about the serial killer aspect 🤣 should be interesting to see how this progresses 14h

Bookwormjillk @Morr_Books yes! Total serial killer vibes! You nailed it. 13h

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BarkingMadRead

Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

Ch 5: Tom is home #hebringsgoodgifts #noimagination #maggieconfesses #nowtomdoesntloveher 💔 #backtotheattic #pityparty #popsmakeshimapologize #friendsagain #fishingisaauccess #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

Bookwormjillk I don‘t think he was wrong though about the rabbits? Oh well. 2d

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk definitely not wrong! 2d

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dabbe I worry about Maggie. She ignores the rabbits and lets them starve to death and takes out her aggressions by stabbing a doll voodoo-style while in the attic. This can not bode well for her psyche. And Tom loving-hating her within minutes. Granted, what she did to the rabbits was awful, but still. 2d

Bklover @Bookwormjillk @dabbe You‘re right about the rabbits. I‘m even mad at her for that! But I hate all of this “I won‘t love you anymore”. Even mom says it. Anyway. I just wanted to mention the last sentence of the chapter is gorgeous! It‘s the narrator speaking about childhood memories. 2d

BarkingMadRead @Bklover the writing is just beautiful! 1d

dabbe @Bklover 🤩😍🤗 1d

Morr_Books I may have an unpopular view, but I'm kinda on team Tom... for this chapter. 1d

ElizaMarie AND the mom quickly again goes to Maggie Drowned! What is with the drowning, maybe her momma lost her sister to drowning. Or do people just up and drown all the time? Is drowning the new boogieman? 1d

BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie I really hope we get some clarity on this, I need me a good backstory! 24h

mcctrish @Morr_Books I‘m team Tom too! He asked 2 people to check on his rabbits and they both let him down 👎🏻👎🏻 and he‘s not allowed to be upset ( mom is a bit theatrical with the drowning ) 19h

Clare-Dragonfly @ElizaMarie I think it‘s just because they live close to a river, but maybe there is something… 17h

ElizaMarie @Clare-Dragonfly Oo that makes more sense than it being something more nefarious. 16h

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BarkingMadRead

Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

Ch 4: I read today‘s chapter in Disney and then forgot to post! #maggiegivesmelife #zerofucksgiven #livingherbestlife #hangingintheattic #runningloose #staygoldenmaggie #hashtagbrigade #omg #thosepoorbunniesthough #iforgotthatpart 🙈🐰

KAO @BarkingMadRead Please add me to the list! Thanks! I am caught up to chapter 4! 2d

BarkingMadRead Gotcha @kao 2d

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Ruthiella Yes, those poor bunnies. 🐰 💔Also th image of a child driving nails into a doll out of anger scares me a little. 😬 But those were different days. 2d

mcctrish She‘s going to live with her brother so she can keep Tom up to speed in life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ( although she forgot to feed his rabbits so maybe he won‘t want her !) 2d

dabbe And it's now the second time the mom has been afraid that Maggie has drowned. Should I be worried about this? 😬 2d

Bklover @Ruthiella Maggie is very entertaining, but I have to admit she scares me a little. I wouldn‘t want to be up in that attic with her! 😬 (edited) 2d

Bookwormjillk Maggie is a little bit scary but I can‘t decide yet if she‘s adorable scary or don‘t leave her alone with small children scary. 2d

ElizaMarie Oh Maggie!!! She is a different one. 2d

Clare-Dragonfly The poor bunnies 😭😭😭 2d

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BarkingMadRead

Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

Ch 3: #maggieisobsessedwiththedevil #lovestoread #tomnotsomuch #streetsmartbookstupid #rileyfoundhimateacher #popswantshimtohavetimeoff #rileysaysno #maggieismyfave #sassmaster #tomsprotector #hashtagbrigade

Bookwormjillk Maggie=me sneaking my Dad‘s Stephen King books. 4d

TheAromaofBooks The end of this chapter felt like some heavy foreshadowing that things aren't going to go well for Tom at Stelling's 😂 4d

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Ruthiella @TheAromaofBooks Agree! 😰 😅 4d

Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks yup 4d

mcctrish #fathandsriley I‘m with Maggie and thinking he‘s not worth listening to 4d

Bklover @TheAromaofBooks I agree- I‘m feeling very sorry for Tom right now. 4d

dabbe We haven't even met Tom yet and already we're feeling bad for him! And this is another one where it sucks to be a female in the 1800s! 😊 4d

BarkingMadRead @dabbe I was so glad I read this in the hotel instead of bringing it into Disney, I was yelling at the book 🤣 4d

ElizaMarie (I am not getting the tags; can you re-add me). Anyway, I love Maggie. Poor girl :( “A woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble.“ - Also, I love how Tom is trying to talk himself into thinking he made the right choice to give them the recommendation. 4d

dabbe @BarkingMadRead 🤣😍🤣 4d

Clare-Dragonfly I really want Tom and Maggie to switch places like Alanna and her brother! She would be much better suited to scholarship! 4d

Morr_Books I found myself being very suspicious of Mr. Riley. Maybe it is cuz Maggie didn't like him. 3d

Leftcoastzen 🙄poor Maggie , poor Tom . I think this Mr. Riley isn‘t reliable, does he get a cut for finding students? I‘m with @Dabbe it sucks to be a girl in the 1800s 2d

dabbe @Leftcoastzen Talk about a patriarchal world, right? #oy 2d

Sparklemn Riley can tell himself that he‘s being magnanimous by recommending the clergy as tutor to Tom. But I think this is going to be an “you scratch my back and I‘ll scratch yours” scenario. 1d

Sparklemn @Clare-Dragonfly I agree 👍 (edited) 1d

Sparklemn @Morr_Books He was so dismissive of her reading. Blech. 1d

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ElizaMarie

The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

I am starting this one today - in between #AudioReSet and my current audiobook. I got a Penguin Classic Edition of this one, and it is also free on Audible, so I downloaded it to switch between the two :) I am excited to start!!

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Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

Ch2: #thetullivers #saucycouple #tomneedsaneddication #ihopewemeetglegg #maggielooksfun #bringiton #hashtagbrigade

Bookwormjillk Another easy chapter. Waiting for something terrible to happen. 5d

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I feel like we are being set up for something 🤣 #scarredforlife 5d

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Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead #TrustIssues 5d

AllDebooks I love Maggie already ❤️ 5d

ElizaMarie I love the whole convo with the mole! “its puzzling work, talking is“. 😂 5d

dabbe This quote scares me from the mother: “Maggie, Maggie ... you'll tumble and be drowned some day, an' then you'll be sorry you didn't do as mother told you.“ 😳 5d

eeclayton As a non-native speaker, I found this chapter a bit difficult to read. I may need to switch to a translation if characters keeps speaking like this. 5d

BarkingMadRead @eeclayton the language was definitely rough. I had to read a couple lines twice! 5d

Leftcoastzen I already feel sorry for Maggie 5d

Ruthiella @eeclayton I am a native speaker and I found some of the sentences tough to parse! 5d

Clare-Dragonfly Poor Maggie, so poorly behaved that her hair won‘t even curl! 🙄😂 5d

mcctrish “I‘d be sorry for him to be a raskill ( lawyer)” 🤣🤣🤣 5d

Bklover Can you add me to the list please? 4d

Bklover @dabbe No Mother of the Year award for her!!😉😂 4d

dabbe @Bklover 🎯🤣🎯 4d

Sparklemn @Ruthiella Same! 😵‍💫 4d

Sparklemn Maggie is sassy! Love it. And her father appears to take it in stride. The mother not so much. 4d

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Leftcoastzen

Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

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I wish it was a full set , it isn‘t ! Will read the first chapter tonight.

BarkingMadRead So cool! 6d

Bookwormjillk 😍😍😍 6d

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dabbe

The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot

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My dear friend gave me her copy of this book. It's her favorite Eliot novel, so I'm looking forward to reading it with this lovely group. I adore Penguin Classics because of the guided assistance! 📚

BarkingMadRead That‘s a beautiful cover! 6d

dabbe @BarkingMadRead TY! 🤩🤗😘 6d

Bookbuyingaddict On dear my lovely it is slightly depressing 😩you can also watch the tv 📺 series on bbc iPlayer lots of love ❤️. X x 6d

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Bookbuyingaddict Ps middlemarch is nicer 😆😘x x x. Also on bbc iPlayer and was filmed up the road from me in beautiful 🤩 Stamford x x x 6d

dabbe @Bookbuyingaddict I think I'm in for some major 😭! 🩵💙🩵 6d

dabbe @Bookbuyingaddict How cool is that? 🤩 I have read MIDDLEMARCH and loved it. A much happier ending, I believe. 🤗😊😘 6d

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