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ch 11.10: have I mentioned Ivan is nuts? #nowalyoshaknows #candmitrybesaved #willivanconfess #willsmerdygetblamed #tomorrowwegotocourt #staytuned #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 1mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 1mo

mcctrish Wrapping a wet towel on ones head seems like it would increase the crazy 🤪 can‘t believe we are going to court tomorrow 1mo

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Bookwormjillk I am so impressed you can do this day after day. My hashtags would be like #waitwhat #arewesupposedtoknowwhatisgoingon #whattheshitishetalkingabout 1mo

Bookwormjillk Also re: court tomorrow. I‘ll believe it when I see it. 1mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk no lie, sometimes it‘s a struggle 🤣 also. Court tomorrow, I swear 🤣 1mo

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk me every day #waitwhat #whatisgoingon #whoisthisnow #whatisthepointofthis 1mo

Ruthiella At the very end it will turn out that all 900 pages were a hallucination by Ivan…😱 1mo

dabbe @Ruthiella Or it will be like Bobby Ewing in the shower and the whole year on DALLAS was just a horrific dream! #😱indeed 1mo

dabbe Our esteemed narrator actually writes this in Book 12/Chapter 1: “I keep thinking that if one were to recall everything and explain everything as one ought, it would fill a whole book, even quite a large one. Therefore let no one grumble if I tell only that which struck me personally and which I have especially remembered.“ He waits until p. 1002 to say this? Yet he goes on&on&on&on... with Ivan's long diatribes? #wtf 😳 1mo

BarkingMadRead @dabbe I knowwwwww seriously dude! 1mo

Bookwormjillk @dabbe 🤣🤣🤣 1mo

Aimeesue @Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie #superrealhashtags 😂😂😂 1mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella I would 💯 lose my shit if that happened 1mo

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella 👀😳😱 1mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤣🤣🤣😱😱 DALLAS ♥️♥️ (edited) 1mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe &on &on …. 1mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂😍 4w

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dabbe

The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#pemberlittens
#hashtagbrigade

I don't believe I ever posted this to my chagrin! A million thanks to @TheBookHippie for these character notes; they're a lifesaver! As you can see, after every chapter, out comes the list as well as LitCharts. Without these aids AND @BarkingMadRead's hilarious hashtags AND the incredible dioramas from @Aimeesue, I'd be #wtf--- all over the place! 🤩😍🤗

BarkingMadRead #teamworkmakesthedreamwork 3mo

TheBookHippie 😘♥️ 3mo

dabbe @BarkingMadRead #yousaidit! #hashtagqueen 🩶🖤🩶 3mo

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dabbe @TheBookHippie 🩶🖤🩶 3mo

Aimeesue As long as you picture the characters as matryoshka dolls from now on, you‘ll remember them forever! I can‘t see them any other way now, tbh 😂 3mo

dabbe @Aimeesue That is yet another EXCELLENT suggestion! It's kind of like picturing the audience just in their underwear! 😂😍🤗 3mo

Aimeesue @dabbe Lol! Yes! 3mo

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TheLudicReader

Untitled | Untitled

Why am I always late for these things?
Thanks for the tag, @Eggs
#TLT @dabbe
1. How memories work. Things I remember from years ago feel like they happened to another person, yet all we are is the sum of our memories.
2. Why people behave the way they do.
3. Why in the heck is DT getting another chance at the presidency? Isn‘t he going to prison? (I apologize if he is your guy, but I just don‘t get it.)

Leftcoastzen Love this post! I wonder the same things.😀 3mo

AmyG #1….I call this memories of having certain memories. Some memories you can “feel” but as I get older that feeling goes away. As for #3….oh, I‘m with you. I don‘t have a clue. (edited) 3mo

dabbe #1: Yes! I've had dreams where I've had conversations with my younger self, and I literally don't feel I was once her at all!
#2: Amen! 💜
#3: Matt and I ask ourselves this daily. Where in history do you have a guy who wins the New Hampshire primary, then goes to court the next day in a defamation suit where he's already been convicted of sexual abuse but is now being tried for verbal abuse? And that doesn't include his 91 criminal charges! #wtf 3mo

TieDyeDude (1) Ooo, good one (3) They invested in too much merch ☹️ 3mo

Deblovestoread I love your question #1. I have a poor memory so why are the memories I have the ones I kept? And what about those that feel like my memories but are really stories told by others so many times they‘ve imprinted. And #3….i wish I knew! Dark days are ahead I‘m afraid. 3mo

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ElizaMarie

The Lottery and Other Stories | Shirley Jackson

So, My husband has been trying to get me to read “The Lottery“ since we met (he used to teach it in his college course). I ended up downloading this #Audio (to listen while I was organizing my reading room #2024Goal). I don't get it! I mean, I haven't gotten to the “The Lottery“ yet, but a lot of these stories (although beautifully written) don't go anywhere. I just, I don't know. Is this over my head? Is this anyone else's experience?

TheBookHippie I DNF and I love her

Dark Tales

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TheBookHippie So 😝🤦🏻‍♀️😂😅🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo

IndoorDame I HATE The Lottery, but it was part of my 6th grade curriculum, not college, and I‘m a firm believer that you ruin classics by trying to teach them too young, so it might be a case of #itsmenotthebook 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo

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dabbe I had to read it for AP Lit in high school and it absolutely stunned me and is my fave story of hers (along with the novel THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE). I agree with @IndoorDame; it's a story for an older audience. The story “A Rose for Emily“ by Faulkner also affected me in the same way. Yet some of her other writings, I'm like #wtf as well. Is it too much to say her writings are mercurial? 3mo

IndoorDame @dabbe LOVE The Haunting of Hill House! So I think we‘re all agreed on mercurial, even if we‘re not in sync about which pieces speak to us. 3mo

ElizaMarie @IndoorDame I agree. I love to read, but most of the time, when I had required reading, I loathed the books! Maybe it was part of my stubbornness? 3mo

ElizaMarie @dabbe I haven't gotten to the Lottery yet, so far, it's all the other stories that are so confusing to me. I did love the Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in a Castle, so... I have high hopes, just some of these other ones... it's odd. 3mo

ElizaMarie @TheBookHippie Yay! I am glad I am not the only one! I will check out the book you tagged. 3mo

Suet624 I‘m laughing because I came to see what others thought of this book. I have the exact same feelings as you. What the heck is it with these stories?? 1w

ElizaMarie @Suet624 Ooo!!! I love that it wasn't just me!!!! 7d

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BarkingMadRead

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman | Thomas Hardy

Ch 45-46: this freaking guy 🙄 #alecisback #hewantstomarrytess #asif #shockedwhentesssaysno #convincedhecanchangehermind #andobviouslythisisallherfault #boysaredumb #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie
@indoordame @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @currentlyreadinginco @annr @eeclayton @deblovestoread @julieclair @ruthiella @jenniferw88 @dabbe @bklover @julieclair @cuilin @mcctrish @clare-dragonfly @quietjenn @jewright @daisey @covertocovergirl @rubyslippersreads @kao @currentlyreadinginco @kwmg40 6mo

Bookwormjillk Reading these chapters made me physically ill. This guy. Ugh. 6mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I walked away like three times! Omg it was painful 6mo

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Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead Thomas Hardy nailed it though. I‘m impressed. 6mo

Bklover Unbelievable. Just Unbelievable. 🤯. I am starting to love Thomas Hardy though, almost as much as I hate Alec! (edited) 6mo

dabbe “I'm sorry I raped you, but now I'm a preacher; oh, now I'm not because you had to up and show your too beautiful face, and now I'm back to being creepy rapist Alec who wants to marry you.“ #wtf 🤬

Is Angel actually going to be an angel and come to her rescue? 🤔 Hmm. #thisishardynotdisney 6mo

Librarybelle This is really the part of the book that made me want to throw the book and scream the first time I read this. This time, I kept exclaiming in disgust so loud that the cats gave me odd looks! 😂 In all honesty, I think these strong emotions that are stirred up from this book are why I like it so much. And imagine - a man wrote this! 6mo

Clare-Dragonfly Can somebody please punch this guy???? Many times?! 6mo

julieclair @Librarybelle You‘re so right. It‘s hard to imagine a man wrote this. And in 1891, no less! I am definitely a Hardy fan. 6mo

Daisey I just recently finished Clarissa, and I thought it would be a while before I felt so much disgust with a character. Now, Hardy has me feeling almost the same about two characters. He definitely wrote it well. 6mo

currentlyreadinginCO I'm curious about how this all was received in 1891 6mo

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reading.rainb0w

The Luminous Dead: A Novel | Caitlin Starling

pan

Actual footage of me throwing a book across the room after I finish it because.. WTF even was that??? Started off so strong, then just... died. Repetitive and annoying - halfway through. Then I just really wanted to know what a Tunneler was.. (didn't get a full description until about 80% in).. and it was not worth the wait! Pretty much hated Gyre at the end... but I think I hated the love trope more because given the circumstances... HOW?? ⭐️⭐️

dabbe Yowza! Even the sweet kitty's like #wtf? 🤣🖤🐾🖤🤣 6mo

reading.rainb0w @dabbe hahaha she knows a dud when she sees one 🤣 6mo

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BarkingMadRead

Tess of the D Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy

Ch 9-10: Tess meets the chickens #theyliveinthecottage #wtf #shealsomeetsMrsD #whohasnocluewhoahereallyis #AlechasaBooRadleymoment #creeper #tessenjoystripstotown #untilafightbreaksout #thesecrazywomenwantingalecback #theycanhavehim #alecsavestheday 🙄 #outofthekettleintothefire #whatcouldgowrong #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

Bookwormjillk I was surprised there actually were chickens to be honest. 6mo

Bklover @Bookwormjillk Me too! 6mo

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @Bklover I was surprised there was a mom 🤣 6mo

currentlyreadinginCO @Bookwormjillk 🤣 6mo

currentlyreadinginCO I was surprised to learn that domesticated chickens were (are?) a thing and that certain types were in fashion?? 6mo

Cuilin Out of the frying pan into the fire comment was ominous. Ugh this does not bode well!! 6mo

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk me too!! 6mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin this book is darker than teenage me remembers 🤷🏻‍♀️. 6mo

BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie I feel like a lot of it would go right over a teenager‘s head! 6mo

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead APPARENTLY it did 😵‍💫😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣… how funny. 6mo

Cuilin @TheBookHippie seriously dark, I think I confused a lot of Hardy‘s work because I don‘t remember being this apprehensive. 6mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin I feel exactly the same way. 6mo

Clare-Dragonfly I really like Mrs. D! She has her priorities straight. Her pets above all 😂 6mo

Clare-Dragonfly @Cuilin Seriously… they‘re all jealous because they‘ve slept with Alec, but they also think she‘s worse off with him than in a fistfight with them? 😨 6mo

Cuilin @Clare-Dragonfly They know!!!! 🤬 6mo

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BarkingMadRead

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman | Thomas Hardy

Ch 7-8: Alec picks up Tess #ofcoursejoanhastoprettyherup #tessdoesntwanttogo #jackisfullywillingtosellheroff #wtf #alectrickstessintoakiss #tessoutsmartshimthesecondtime #soproud #thiscantendwell #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @indoordame @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @currentlyreadinginco @annr @eeclayton @deblovestoread @julieclair @ruthiella @jenniferw88 @dabbe @bklover @julieclair @cuilin @mcctrish @clare-dragonfly @quietjenn @jewright @daisey @covertocovergirl @rubyslippersreads @kao @currentlyreadinginco @kwmg40 7mo

Bookwormjillk Tess won that round at least 7mo

julieclair I just love Tess. Proud of her. But her family…. Ugh….. 7mo

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TheBookHippie #WTAF is wrong with ppl….I also do love Tess. 7mo

currentlyreadinginCO I get that Tess just continued to go with Alex rather than going home and it makes sense to me why she did not, but dang, so much may have been avoided by turning around! Although going back to her dreadful family isn't much of an option, either. 7mo

currentlyreadinginCO Alec* 7mo

Clare-Dragonfly Wow, Alec is even more of a creep than before. Ugh! Is anyone else reminded of John Thorpe from Northanger Abbey? Alec is definitely worse though. (edited) 7mo

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GingerAntics

Ink Blood Sister Scribe | Emma T�rzs

HOLY CRAP, COLLINS‘S FIRST NAME!!!
#InkBloodSisterScribe #EmmaTörzs #audiobook #busbook #magic #maninthemirror #womaninthemirror #whoisinthemirror #wtf

GingerAntics @julesG I‘m trying SO hard to keep this to myself until you can read it. 7mo

GingerAntics OH MY GOD THIS BOOK IS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD I‘M GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE AN HOUR OF PTO TO FINISH IT RIGHT NOW!!! 7mo

julesG 😂😂😂 7mo

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julesG Okay. I'm starting the audiobook. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!! It‘s so ridiculously good! I need this work day to hurry up because I just don‘t care about patients getting lab appointments scheduled right now. I need to finish this book!!! 7mo

julesG Finally made it to that point. 😂😂😂 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG wasn‘t that great?! Loved it so much!!! I literally don‘t know what to read now. I still have questions! 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG okay, so I might have missed the answers to these 3 questions, but I also think one was at least hinted at (that I caught)…
Are Joanna and Esther real sisters?
Who is Nicholas‘s mother?
Are Joanna, Esther, and Nicholas related? 7mo

julesG Joanna and Esther have the same father. Different mothers, though. Esther's mother is Isabella from Mexico City. Joanna's mother is 'Whats-her-name' from Belgium. 7mo

julesG Nicholas's mother was an actor (she appeared on stage, it says somewhere). His father was related to his "uncle" through the uncle's sister. 7mo

julesG J+E+N are not related in any way. They are connected in a way through Maram (sp?), who is Isabella, Esther's mother. But no blood relation. 7mo

julesG Joanna's mother used to be Esther's nanny. Isabella and Abe were no longer together by the time Isabella left to work for the evil uncle full time. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG Cecily? Okay so half sisters. That‘s what I was thinking. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG “John” was his dad and was something to Richard/the creepy surgeon. Definitely missed that about his mum, though. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG that‘s what I thought, but there was a lot of explaining and MANY names (including Isabella/Miram) so I wasn‘t sure. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG that‘s what I was thinking, but then I got lost in how many years were between them and the whole “Isabella/Miram put us together” thing. 7mo

GingerAntics @julesG thank you! That was very helpful. I feel more closure now. 7mo

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GingerAntics

Ink Blood Sister Scribe | Emma T�rzs

Show of hands ✋? who would trust the stranger on the other side of the mirror who is watching everyone in the bathroom just to warn you (?) about impending doom (!) or maybe luring you to your doom(!!).
#InkBloodSisterScribe #EmmaTörzs #audiobook #busbook #magic #maninthemirror #womaninthemirror #whoisinthemirror #wtf

julesG This book is waiting for me in the UK. 😁😁 I wouldn't trust a stranger in any mirror. Especially not the one with the wild hair who's using my toothbrush in the morning. 😝 8mo

GingerAntics @julesG oh my god I kind of hope the toothbrush thing is in the book and not your cat chewing the fluffy thing you use all the time. 8mo

julesG Oh god. No, the cat cannot get to my toothbrush. Still, when I look in the mirror in the morning I often wonder who the wild-haired woman is. I'm always kind of hoping to see the henna-died teenager who still has all the decisions before her. I'd like to tell her which things to not do. 😉 8mo

GingerAntics @julesG 😂🤣😂 I didn‘t even think of that! 🤣😂🤣 yeah, the lunatic in my mirror is certainly getting there. 8mo

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