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Blueberry

The Silverado Squatters | Robert Stevenson

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jenniferw88

Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare

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Why does 🍊 have to give his opinion on their engagement?!

Feel free to have a #ranttime on this post - I'll fully support you 😆😆😆!

TheBookHippie 😝 2w

CBee He wants Taylor to like him SO badly, but it‘s never going to happen! Ugh. 2w

lil1inblue 🙄 🙄 🙄 2w

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DGRachel Because apparently reporters can‘t be bothered to ask him real questions. 🤬 2w

Tamra As much luck as he‘s had? (In the marriage dept.) (edited) 2w

Sparklemn @DGRachel Bingo! 1w

jenniferw88 @DGRachel @Sparklemn, and when they do, he starts answering it & then goes off on a tangent & starts waffling on! 😆 1w

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Aims42

Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged | Alexandre Dumas

I‘m making progress in my IRL bookclub‘s September pick, and it‘s actually pretty good! Definitely not one I would‘ve picked up otherwise 😊 I did have to print off a character list since names are just thrown out all Willy-Nilly 🤣 (Green tabs on top are for quotes, the tabs down the side are my reading chunks so I don‘t get overwhelmed 😆)

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Blueberry

The Silverado Squatters | Robert Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson, his new wife and her son were on a honeymoon trip squatting in a falling apart cabin in the hills outside of Napa. There is zero mention of his wife and son. Lol.
Lots of description of the neighbors and the landscape. Surprisingly good. 3.5⭐

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Blueberry

The Silverado Squatters | Robert Stevenson

"The scene of this little book is on a high mountain."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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AroundTheBookWorld

Best-Loved Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen

Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed.
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GingerAntics

Goethe's Faust | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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This was so enthralling and wonderful to listen to. I highly recommend it. It has the weight and feel and Shakespeare, but the language is far more modern. The translator did an amazing job of keeping the rhythm of the original German poetry in the English.
#Goethe #Faust #DrQuinnReadingList #poetry #play #classicliterature

Bookwomble And Samuel West and Toby Jones are both such great actors. I bet they were good in their roles! 2mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble absolutely brilliant! They really brought it to life. I adored every minute of it. 2mo

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GingerAntics

Goethe's Faust | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This has been on my TBR since 2019. I started it after finishing Herod while donating plasma today. I‘m already 77% of the way through. It‘s fast paced. It‘s compelling. It has the feeling of Shakespeare, with far more modern English. This translation has done a marvellous job of keeping the rhythm of the original German poetry. 100% recommend so far. Would love to do this as a group read at some point. I just wanted to share this brilliance.

GingerAntics Thanks Dr. Quinn for putting this book on my radar! #Goethe #Faust #DrQuinnReadingList #poetry #play #classicliterature 2mo

TheBookHippie Oh I love this!!! 2mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I am adoring every second of this! 2mo

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julesG Had to read and dissect/interpret it in school. Both parts. And, if course, we had to look at other works where a character struck a bargain with the devil. 2mo

GingerAntics @julesG he is a German author, so that makes sense. Yeah, we get Shakespeare and if you were lucky, you MIGHT have been introduced to a little Mark Twain. That‘s about it. Everything else was modern. Then again, this is America. No one would stand for a man striking a bargain with the devil. It might corrupt the children. 🙄 (edited) 2mo

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julesG I think we read some Marlow too. Apart from Shakespeare. 2mo

GingerAntics @julesG oooh I read some Marlow in grad school. I‘m trying to remember which ones now… 🤔 🧐 2mo

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