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Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 6: #thecoriolanusimpicturing #shakespeare #hortenseistheworst #carolinehasacrush #robertleadsheron #whatadick #thatsallihavetosayaboutthat #countdowntoshirley #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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Bookwormjillk Chapter 6 and I am finally starting to understand who some of these people are. 16h

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Ruthiella I wonder if C and R will marry and are Shirley‘s parents? 13h

mcctrish How old is Robert? Not that things like this matter in these olden times 🙄 and #horriblehortense IS insufferable 12h

eeclayton @Ruthiella that's a good theory! 12h

eeclayton @mcctrish in his early thirties, if I remember well 12h

ElizaMarie So I was confused about Moore, like does he like her or just likes her attention and is playing with her. Up till the end of the chapter I thought that he was playing with her- but then his last comment —- 12h

lil1inblue @Bookwormjillk #ditto 🙃 11h

Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella Oh, good thought! 11h

lil1inblue @ElizaMarie I get so many shady vibes from Moore! I think he likes that she likes him, but doesn't necessarily like her. But I guess we shall see! 11h

willaful @lil1inblue I'm a romantic so I prefer to think he's in love against his will and will find out! On the other hand, I see no happy ending for them. 10h

lil1inblue @willaful I could see that, as well, now that you mention it! I dislike his inconsistency with her, but I see where it could be because of conflict. But since it's a Bronte, I agree that there will be no happy ending. 😂 8h

Clare-Dragonfly I cackled out loud—don‘t know why I didn‘t think of this Coriolanus 🤣 They read an ENTIRE Shakespeare play and still had time for music and poetry?! I guess these English winter evenings are long but wow… 6h

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Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell

I‘ve thought long and hard about my favorite reads from 2025 and this is what I came up with. In no particular order. I feel like I had an exceptionally good year, though, and I really enjoyed lots that didn‘t quite make the cut.

* In 2025, I began hardcore reading Harlequin books because they‘re guaranteed HEA‘s. No shame!
* In 2025, I started Tara Jenkins Reid‘s books because I felt silly never having read her before. 3 down, and ongoing!

AmyG I love all these books! 15h

Karisa I‘ve read four of your favorites and loved them too! Looks like I need to check out Broken Country! 😊 14h

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Centique

Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story | Stanley Wells

I got to Shakespeare and Co in Paris. Thats the queue to the left! I bought one second hand book for me (a Margaret Drabble I hadn‘t read) and one for my daughter (Jean Rhys - couldn‘t pass that up in Paris!) Didnt do any other bookish things but ate a LOT and practiced my high school French, which people were very polite about but rarely made any sense to them 😂😂😂

TrishB Wow a queue! Very lucky not to be one when I went. Hope you had fun. 1d

AnneCecilie There tend to be a queue, unless you come right after opening or right before closing. 1d

xicanti When I was there in April, I discovered babies and their entourages get to skip the line! Next time, I‘ll tag along with a baby. 1d

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LadyCait84

Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell

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Exquisite and brutal.

Five stars and gallons of my tears.

GinaKButler *most accurate review ever ❤️ 4d

dabbe Yep. 🎯♥️🎯 3d

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K1mb3rl3y

If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio

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Stunning. I loved the way Shakespeare ran through this book so effortlessly. In the afterword, the author admits she “ransacked Shakespeare's entire oeuvre with giddy abandon” and it was beautiful. I didn‘t want it to end. And there were tears.

There is so much emotion (positive and negative) between these seven classmates, who were all drawn together (for better or worse) by their love of The Bard. As Oliver states, ”I blame him for all of it”.

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If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio

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dabbe

Hamnet | MAGGIE. O'FARRELL

#weeklyfavorites @Read4life 🩶❄️🤍

Leftcoastzen Love the reading slump image!😁 5d

TheKidUpstairs I think Hamnet might be my favourite book of the last ten years. (if you asked me tomorrow, it might be something else, but I really do LOVE this book). I'm so excited for her new one