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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 3.7: all caught up! #well #somuchcrying #alittleverdantverdure #ijinxedmyself 🤷🏻‍♀️ #emilyhasafriend #shesleftatacottagewithanassassin #whatcouldgowrong #lovelywalks #dancingfortheseanymphs #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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Ruthiella She never, never, never stops crying…😭😭😭 5mo

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BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella those are all her tears in that picture 🤣🤣🤣 5mo

Ruthiella @BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣 5mo

ElizaMarie I'm behind but I'm gonna catch up tomorrow. Now I know where I should end up!!! 5mo

mcctrish @Ruthiella she is now exhausted by her tears so maybe we can catch a break ( I didn‘t even realize she was crying. Again. ) 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly Macaroni obviously isn‘t going to kill her, because he wouldn‘t inherit her estates (I presume her closest living relative would, and that‘s the mom‘s brother, whom it would be a lot harder to get the property from). But this seems like a lovely place so I‘m suspicious of the niceness. 5mo

Bklover To me this book feels so much like it was written by a man! All the fainting and crying and weak women. And I mean a man back in that time. (edited) 5mo

Bookwormjillk So weird. Glad she made a friend though. Random sea nymph poem inserted here. 5mo

julieclair I‘m glad I don‘t have to “analyze” this book for an English class. I don‘t know what I‘d do about that sea nymph song! 😂 Which, by the way, was sung in the audio version and was completely tuneless!But at least Emily has made a friend. 5mo

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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 3.2: The Count is back #kidnapper #well #failedkidnapper #thatsprettymuchit #shortchapter #hallelujah #hashtagbrigade

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AllDebooks The whither/thither and hithers are really grinding my gears now. 5mo

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Bookwormjillk Is the count counting the tears? 5mo

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk 😅🤣 5mo

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 5mo

mcctrish I laughed out loud learning that the Count‘s revenge fantasy was fuelled by intel gleaned from Annette‘s “thoughtless prattle” anyone who can follow her circuitous rambling and concoct a plan deserves to succeed 5mo

mcctrish @AllDebooks so much unnecessary language 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly 😂😂😂 5mo

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The Hotel: A Novel | Elizabeth Bowen

Ch 1: we meet the characters #well #someofthecharacters #pymisashylittlething #mrskerrisinteresting #pymsreactiontobeingseenwithkerr #shouldgetinterestingquickly #shortbook #hooray #hashtagbrigade
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The Hotel: A Novel | Elizabeth Bowen

BarkingMadRead @indoordame @bookwormjillk @librarybelle @graciouswarriorprincess @mcctrish @ruthiella @cuilin @jewright @julieclair @clare-dragonfly @quietjenn 8mo

BarkingMadRead @thebookhippie @currentlyreadinginco @rubyslippersreads @deblovestoread @dabbe @catlass007 @willaful @debinhawaii @peanutnine @Tineke 8mo

Ruthiella Still waiting on my copy. Will catch up later! 😀 8mo

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Graciouswarriorprincess I will start when I get off work this afternoon. Thanks for the tag! 😊 8mo

Bookwormjillk This seems like a lighter read than Ruth? Maybe? We‘ll see. 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I‘m hoping! It seems so 8mo

mcctrish I forgot what day it was so got my kindle copy 🙏🏻 so Miss Pym thinks she‘s a hedonist? I‘m curious about what she and Emily came apart over. It sounds like a lovely place to spend the winter sucks that I have to spend mine at work 8mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I hope we find out about the quarrel, I‘m also intrigued! 8mo

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly Take me off the tag list for this. I‘m just too busy ☹️ 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly gotcha 8mo

Cuilin I think the quarrel is a case of familiarity breeding contempt. Imagine wintering in a luxury hotel on the Italian Riviera though. 8mo

willaful I'm definitely intrigued about the friendship. Miss Pym seems to be a bit of a status chaser? But perhaps will realize she's happier with someone she can be herself with. 8mo

TheBookHippie My book arrives Tuesday! I‘ll catch up! 8mo

rubyslippersreads I‘m just catching up, but enjoying it so far. I think the quarrel is due to too much togetherness. I live the novel‘s setting, but am not so sure I‘d love vacationing with this group of people. 😏 8mo

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Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell

Ch 20: well, that took a turn #FisntlikingJeminasattitudelately #bradshawasksruthtospeaktoher #ruthwantstowitnessthebehaviorfirst #whatcouldgowrong #well #Flovesruthnow #bradshawthinksitworked #hewantstobuyruthafancydress #becausethatsnotweird #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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@clare-dragonfly @julieclair @aimeesue @quietjenn @kao @bklover @alldebooks @jewright @cuilin @willaful 8mo

rubyslippersreads Wouldn‘t Bradshaw giving Ruth something as personal as a dress be considered extremely improper? Maybe if Mrs. Bradshaw had given it to her, or Mr. & Mrs., or even as a gift from the two little girls (not Jemima, though!) 😏 (edited) 8mo

mcctrish Bradshaw is absolutely the most pompous self interested patronizing ass in the history of literature 🤯 he wants to buy a dress for Ruth because her best realty isn‘t and it would be totally okay if she told everybody that he treated her @rubyslippersreads no, because he‘s a righteous prick so no one could think that 🙄 8mo

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AllDebooks Not a fan of Bradshaw and his manipulations 8mo

currentlyreadinginCO Not a fan of any of this!! 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly I don‘t like Bradshaw, but he‘s not that awful—he just wants the whole world to see him as rich and generous! @rubyslippersreads He already gave her fabric and the Bensons persuaded her to accept it—I‘m pretty sure that‘s what the gift would be this time as well, silk fabric, and she can make it into a dress herself. 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly Also, I‘m now worried that F is going to propose to Ruth and either she‘ll accept and go down Tess‘s road, or tell him why she can‘t accept him and be thrown out of her job. There‘s no winning for poor Ruth! 8mo

willaful Getting a Mr. Knightly/Emma vibe here, though neither of them is nearly as interesting. And inviting Ruth definitely backfired. 🙄

I wonder what a “red-hot Valentine“ consisted of in Gaskell's time. 😂 8mo

Bookwormjillk Whelp 8mo

rubyslippersreads @Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish You‘re right; he‘s set himself up as being completely righteous and beyond contempt. 😠 8mo

Ruthiella Honestly I find Jemima a breath of fresh air in her temper Ruth is just too GOOD. I know Gaskell had her reasons, but for this modern reader, she‘s a little too perfect. 8mo

julieclair @currentlyreadinginCO 💯! 8mo

julieclair The deeper we get into this book, the sadder I‘m becoming. Ruth is so good, and she just seems trapped by her past (most of which was beyond her control). I hope @willaful is right and we get a Knightly/Emma ending. 8mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella I agree with you about Jemima. Ruth is sweet, but such a goody-two-shoes, she seems almost one-dimensional. 8mo

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The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Unabridged Edition): A Philosophical Novel by the Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 8.5: this chapter gave me Crime and Punishment vibes #dmitryloseshisdamnmind #runningeverywherecoveredinblood #scaringGsstaff #gettinghisgunsback #hetookmoneyfrompops #ispopsdead ☠️ #whoknows #well #dmitryknows #peterhelpedhimout #buyingupallllllthegoodies #offtofindG #withguns #whatcouldgowrong #petertellshalfthetownhalfthestory #againisay #whatcouldgowrong #staytuned #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens #whewimadeit

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Bookwormjillk Now we‘re getting somewhere….unless tomorrow it turns out he just had a bad paper cut. 1y

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I‘m wary 🤣 #zerotrust 1y

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead same. Cautiously optimistic at best. 1y

dabbe @Bookwormjillk 😂😂😂 1y

Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk A paper cut! 🤣🤣🤣🩸 🩹 1y

mcctrish Cautiously optimistic about murder @Bookwormjillk ✊🏻🤣🤣 1y

TheBookHippie Let the murder begin 🤣😅🤦🏻‍♀️ 1y

currentlyreadinginCO Bloody dmitri is fun 1y

Aimeesue @currentlyreadinginCO 😂😂😂 1y

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Tess of D'Ubervilles | Thomas Hardy

Ch 43-44: Tess has a crappy month #thefarmerisanass #shefoundoutaboutIzz #aheoverheardtheclarebrotheratalkingshit #sheseesalecpreaching #youcantmakethiscrapup #well #hardymadethiscrapup 🤷🏻‍♀️#staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

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@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 2y

currentlyreadinginCO #hardymadethiscrapup 😂😂😂, sooo do we think that Alec has actually repented and seen the light ... ? 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2y

BarkingMadRead @currentlyreadinginCO #hellno 2y

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dabbe @BarkingMadRead Alec reminds me of the evil Robert Mitchum who faked it as a preacher in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. #hellnoindeedy

And I knew we'd see that asshole again, right? Just when Tess is at her weakest. #notagoodsign #atall 2y

Bookwormjillk Tess has to suffer when Alec gets to “repent” 2y

Clare-Dragonfly I did not see that coming! I thought the preacher would be the paint guy. 2y

Ruthiella It was the boots that set me off. She doesn‘t even get to keep her boots. Come on, Hardy! 😢 2y

KAO I‘m with you, @Ruthiella ! Come on, not the boots too! Just when you think things can‘t get any worse. 2y

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Middlemarch: a study of provincial life | George Eliot