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My hardcover copy arrived 💜🪻📔

#litsolace #naturalitsy #springequinox #hygge

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 12h
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Monday, Monday: A Novel | Elizabeth Crook
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1. Spring cleaning and appointment making

2. 3 hours

3. Poetry or my memoir (lots of people have to die first 😵‍💫)

#motivationalmonday

Cupcake12 Thanks for joining in x 14h
dabbe #3 ... 😂😂😂 13h
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😂🤣😂 12h
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#hyggehourreadathon

Pretending it‘s gardening time 💚

Cupcake12 I love the cushion design x 1d
AllDebooks 🌱🤞soon 🌱💚 1d
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Luck of the Titanic | Stacey Lee
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Tagged book is really good. We enjoyed it so much in #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 🚢♥️

BookmarkTavern That looks so interesting! Thanks for sharing! 1d
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Irish Fairy Tales | Philip Smith
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❄️💚☘️💚❄️

Allll the yummmmm ☘️💚☘️

💚☘️👩🏻‍🍳☘️💚

Bookwormjillk Love it 😍😍😍 2d
Princess-Kingofkings Everything looks amazing 💚🍀💚 1d
dabbe Fabulous. 💚☘️💚 1d
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#hyggehour #HyggeHourReadathon

Definitely need this! Can‘t wait! 💚☘️💚

Everyone welcome !!!

Read4life Looking forward to it! 💚 2d
dabbe 💚☘️💚 2d
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Irish Fairy Tales | Philip Smith
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💚☘️💚 Happy St Patrick‘s Day !!!

We had Shamrock Shakes Friday afterschool 💚☘️

Today a big meal- cards & small gifts 💚☘️💚

Hope your day is good! 💚☘️💚

A little #litsolace since winter is FOREVER as such I just spotted snowflakes 🤣☘️💚☘️

Gissy 🍀💚💚💚 1d
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

Um. If you‘re still with me congratulations ..
I don‘t have words. I hate everyone then I read a good quote then I hate everyone.

☘️💚☘️Happy St Pattys day I just spotted a few snowflakes and I‘m off to start prep for my huge dinner of Cottage pie, leek soup, yeast rolls, lime jello of course and mint ice cream and cookies.

I thank you for Sundays and sticking with me!! ♥️

mcctrish I‘m still here, rage reading 🤣 and despite myself a snippet draws me in and I‘m engaged. But I can not wait to be done with this!!! The lime jello sounds so good to me! We are having corned beef, colcannon and homemade shamrock shakes tonight. Maybe a shot of whiskey 🥃 too 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish I‘m thinking Irish coffee tonight as I read .. 2d
vlwelser @mcctrish 💯 every time I lose all hope with this, she throws in an interesting or insightful gem. But it's torture. 2d
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mcctrish @vlwelser torture is correct 2d
AmyG Hahahahahaha. I hate them all, too. And spot on with the random gem. I will finish this Nobel prize in literature if it‘s the last thing I ever do. 2d
Librarybelle I am behind, but really hope to catch up by the end of the month! I‘m not far enough to contribute to this week‘s discussion other than to say I‘m not liking the characters either. 2d
IndoorDame 💯 there with you guys! Rage reading, determined to finish mostly out of spite, but then she‘ll say something genuinely intriguing and I‘ll want to finish for real, at least for another page or two till I hate everyone again.🤣Happy St. Patty‘s Day! ☘️ 2d
quietlycuriouskate Together, we've got this! 2d
BarkingMadRead I 💯 bailed and I‘m not sorry about it 🤣 I couldn‘t get into it and I had too much other stuff going on 🤣 1d
mollyrotondo I was really enjoying this book up until this section lol this section took me the longest to get through. It was just a lot of the same especially with the men and it seemed to move slower. I hope part 4 draws me in more because we are so close to finishing! 8h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD BLUE NOTEBOOK

Neurotic
What‘s you think of Mother Sugar the therapist ?
Does Anna need to write?
What is up with Anna‘s repulsion of lesbians ?!

Russia was not good to Jews history

ALLL THE MEN 😵‍💫😵‍💫

mcctrish Anna has been fed the patriarchal koolaid 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish Unfortunately so have many others 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 2d
AmyG I can only say that I am so damn tired of everyone‘s feelings at this point. It‘s exhausting. 2d
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vlwelser This entire book is exhausting. I'm with @AmyG 💯 2d
IndoorDame I‘m with you on ALL THE MEN 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫lucky I don‘t care about any of them to hate them half as much as they deserve 2d
mollyrotondo Well I am on board with Mother Sugar in theory but Anna has written all of this and she‘s still making the wrong decisions with men and talks so negatively about certain demographics. Is she reading what she writes? I feel no growth with this character so far. All that talk about how she is a woman who is feeling like no other woman felt before her 🙄 give me a break 8h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD YELLOW NOTEBOOK

The novel

The third is now Ella
Ella -Dr West finding his next play thing ! OY
Julie/Ella friends because they hate men

The “ MY WIFE IS NOT AN EXHILARATING CONVERSATIONALIST”
“A woman with three small children stuck in the suburbs with a TV has nothing exhilarating to talk about..”

Also LESBIANS ARE NOT LESBIANS BECAUSE THEY HATE MEN .. OMG

Ella and her father

People, I think ELLA NEEDS HELP

mcctrish Dr West 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2d
AmyG More skimming. This was all so absurd. 2d
vlwelser This is one of those gems. Like men were putting women in this position and expecting them to stay there and then complaining that they have nothing to talk about. Which somehow makes it ok to be unfaithful. 2d
IndoorDame It‘s awfully close, but it‘s possible Ella gets the 🏆 for my least favorite character at this point 2d
mollyrotondo I just feel like this part was so repetitive. This guy is the same as the last guy and the guy before that. All married men who want a wife and a mistress to complain to about the wife 🙄 it‘s the same thing over and over. Does Anna/Ella ever feel drawn to any single men?! 🙄 all the men in 1954 cannot be married. 8h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD RED NOTEBOOK

Molly “The point is oughtnt they to be more intelligent than we were Anna?”

Pg 427-428 quote ⬇️

"My dear Comrades. I have been listening to you, amazed at the wells of faith in human beings! What you are saying amounts to this: that you know the leadership of the British C.P. consists of men and women totally corrupted by years of work in the Stalinist atmosphere.⬇️

TheBookHippie You know they will do anything to maintain their position. You know, because you have given a hundred examples of it here this evening, that they suppress resolutions, rig ballots, pack meetings, lie and twist. 2d
TheBookHippie There is no way of getting them out of office by democratic means partly because they are unscrupulous, and partly because half of the Party members are too innocent to believe their leaders are capable of such trickery. 2d
TheBookHippie But every time you reach this point in your deliberations you stop, and instead of drawing the obvious conclusions from what you have said, you go off into some day-dream and talk as if all you have to do is to appeal to the leading comrades to resign all at once because it would be in the best interests of the Party if they did. 2d
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TheBookHippie It is as if you proposed to appeal to a professional burglar to retire because his efficiency was giving his profession a bad name."⬆️ 2d
mcctrish Are the people ‘elected‘ ever more intelligent? Not often 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish HAHAHAHA NOPE. 2d
AmyG @mcctrish Oh, I can think of one very obvious example. In face the best example of all time. 🤣 2d
vlwelser This is the kind of nonsense that makes this book hard to read. 2d
IndoorDame How bored do you think they are that they keep going to these C.P. meetings and listening to this drivel? I can barely read it and that only takes a fraction of the time and only happens once 🤣 2d
mcctrish @AmyG the greatest example? There has never been an example so great? Could be the greatest ever? ( I am legit laughing out loud but crying inside a little ) 2d
AmyG @mcctrish 🤣🤣👊🏻 2d
quietlycuriouskate Oh God, the mental claustrophobia of this! 🥺 2d
mollyrotondo I did not like that guy that is quoted above, but he was right. And this whole quote still applies today. Especially lately in the good ol' U.S. of A. 🙄 13h
TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo THE QUOTE IS 🎯 13h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD BLACK NOTEBOOK

Pigeon Killing
Grasshoppers
Butterflies

The Group AGAIN in Africa

American writer, journalist

Publishing reviews

Church experience agnostic atheist

Blood on the banana leaves

Interesting how the reviews changed year to year?

mcctrish I was eating my breakfast while reading this and I need some time to recover. Will never want to eat pigeon pie 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish I was gleeful finding the photo 😵‍💫🤣🤷🏻‍♀️😳😱🤣🤣🤣🤣 2d
mcctrish @TheBookHippie while I was reading it “best part of this is seeing what Christine posts as a pic!” 🤣🤣🤣🐦🐦🥧 2d
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AmyG I skimmed this part. 🤢 2d
vlwelser They all just seem so out of touch. Like why was this even a thing? And it's part of the book within the book so why is this necessary? Is there some message here? 2d
IndoorDame Amazing photo!!!!! 2d
IndoorDame Another WTF section 2d
quietlycuriouskate My heart sank to be back with the insufferable group in Africa... and that was before they started up their tedious posing again while shooting all those poor birds. What was the point of all that?! Ugh, I can't stand any of them! 2d
TheBookHippie @vlwelser Right?! What is she saying! 1d
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame the photo is chefs kiss! So excited when I found it 🤣 1d
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate What was the point?! 1d
mollyrotondo This whole part was incredibly boring to me. I did not understand why it had to go on and on. I assume it shows how disjointed the group always was? But why are we being told this now? We got that from reading all about their time in Africa in the beginning. This pigeon hunting scene was in the story Anna was writing? Or it was actual history she is reflecting on? Either way I did not find this intriguing at all. 13h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD FREE WOMEN

Anna is losing it because she lost a man- Michael!?
Also this is her excuse for being mean, etc?!
Ummmm
Wow

Is this book showing us how NOT to be? I‘m lost…

mcctrish It‘s all fine and good to read this after the times have moved forward, although maybe this should be assigned reading for everyone drinking the conservative party koolaid right now. Nobody is happy with anything in this book! 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish RIGHT?! Although for older students to read it and discuss it may actually be good. Could teach. (edited) 2d
AmyG I see it more as a sign of the times. These women are miserable, having horrible sex. No wonder the women‘s movement happened! I kept wondering about my mother as she was around their age during this time. 2d
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vlwelser This book is confusing. How did this become a classic for women's studies? 2d
IndoorDame Is the book showing us how not to be? There‘s that weird section about satire that never really goes anywhere and ends with them saying people don‘t get satire. Is this all satire!!!??? If it is I think they‘re right and it‘s over our heads a bit 😂 2d
mollyrotondo I really thought this book was going to show an upward climb for a woman of that era to go from being a follower of men (like Anna follows Willi around Africa) to independence from men and self-love and understanding before finding real companionship with people who respect you. But instead Anna never learns and is always chasing a married man and cannot seem to break way from Communists and has no sense of self. 😕 13h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD FREE WOMEN

Marion

“ I thought my God for that creature I‘ve ruined my life…he‘s been in love with a type, he never loved me, NONE of it had anything to do with me…”

Pg 381 revelation of hers.

That was a gem.

So what is it with her and Tommy ?!?!

mcctrish Marion and Tommy is creepy AF. This book 🤦🏻‍♀️ Tommy is some master puppeteer just like his father but a different stage. 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🎯🎯🎯 2d
AmyG Oh Lord, Marion. Yikes. And @mcctrish Yes, creepy AF. I wonder if it plays out a little later. Marion is some piece of work. They ALL are. 2d
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vlwelser So creepy. But good for her to get away from that awful husband. 2d
IndoorDame I want to think better of Marion, but it reads like she freaks herself out by having a genuine insight that would require her to take control so let‘s Tommy take control instead, and refuses to believe Anna when she points out that Tommy is screwing with her. 2d
quietlycuriouskate Honestly, I'm struggling to understand anyone's motives in this book. 2d
mollyrotondo I agree with @IndoorDame and @quietlycuriouskate about how Marion lets Tommy take control and how I don't understand anyone's motives lol First of all, Marion seems to give so much of herself to men. She cannot find her own autonomy and always gives up control to a man even her very young stepson. And I don't understand Tommy's endgame. Just to screw over his father by convincing his stepmom to leave him? 13h
TheBookHippie @mollyrotondo I‘m afraid he‘s going to take his stepmom 😵‍💫😫. 13h
mollyrotondo @TheBookHippie oh like marry her? Or whatever equivalent? 8h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD FREE WOMEN

AnnA HOMOPHOBIC … just WOW that was hard to read. She is so uniformed as well, just mind blowing. All kinds of wrong 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫YIKES.
She has no open mind either. Also definitely not a feminist. Whew.

mcctrish I was reading and rereading this section. Thinking “wait do you just dislike Ronnie or ?” Then the comment about ‘real‘ men 🤯 the ‘real‘ men in this book SUCK. But yay for Anna, a racist and a homophobe. So is Doris these too? 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤷🏻‍♀️ She is or trying to show us how horrible it is???? 2d
IndoorDame This section was so painful to read! 2d
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IndoorDame @mcctrish @TheBookHippie I came down on the she actually is homophobic side because she tries to make Anna genuinely sympathetic with all that back and forth about deserving to feel at peace in her own home but understanding that these tenants will have a much harder time getting another decent room 🤮 2d
mcctrish @IndoorDame she doth protest too much for sure 🎯 2d
AmyG Back then…hard to hide your racism and homophobia? Or just more acceptable to say it? That part was hugely cringeworthy. 2d
vlwelser This Ronnie part was terrible. And then she doesn't get why the other dude goes back to being distant. 2d
quietlycuriouskate "Real" men?! Like those shining paragons of manhood that she hooks up with? 2d
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate The definition of real men is 😵‍💫. I‘m just astounded. 1d
mollyrotondo This whole section has been my least favorite far so and one of the major reasons is because of all the “real men“ talk. She went on and on with this homophobic remark about “real men“ that it really turned my interest off. I assume this is another aspect of people of the era that Doris Lessing is criticizing, but this late in the book I hoped for more growth from Anna. 13h
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD FREE WOMEN

So TOMMY - BLIND NOT DEAD 😳
Apparently he‘s happy now
Manipulative ? Abusive?
I‘m not a fan

📷 https://988lifeline.org/

Also. The light always returns. I promise. One of the bravest things I ever did was stay here. Please reach out if you need help.

mcctrish That was a cliffhanger ending to the last section! It feels like he‘s become a new character, that I still dislike 🤣 I am so happy you are here ❤️❤️❤️ 2d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish Me too. ♥️ 2d
IndoorDame What does it say about this novel (about Lessing) that the new WAY less likeable Tommy is now at peace with himself 🤔😂😟 2d
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TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Tommy 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 2d
mcctrish @IndoorDame 🤣🤣 absolutely 💯 has a transformative experience becomes a worse person 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2d
AmyG I was surprised by that. But IS he at peace with himself? It feels off. But then alot of this book does. 2d
vlwelser I am thankful always that you are here. ❤ 2d
vlwelser Tommy somehow manages to become less likeable. I thought it was sort of anticlimactic that he survives. Because this is fiction and it's ok to root against the dreadful characters. 2d
mollyrotondo I was shocked that Tommy survived. But I agree with everyone, I still cannot stand Tommy. He is still unlikeable. He does seem more content now, but he still hasn't grown as a character. I'm not sure what Tommy is supposed to show us in this story. But I am glad we are all here! ❤ 13h
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For MY BIRTHDAY MONTH 📔🙃

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD MAY

I love Dorothy Parker! I‘ve no knowledge on this book I‘m going in blind! Just how I like it! 🙃🤣

2024 SCHEDULE https://bookhippie.com/index.php/2023/10/01/2024-sunday-buddy-read/

Everyone welcome any month ♥️

Crazeedi Sounds like a good one, she was definitely a unique woman 2d
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Zorrie | Laird Hunt
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL 📔

Everyone welcome!

vonnie862 Got a copy! 2d
AmyG I got my copy too. Looks good. 2d
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TheBookHippie @AmyG WE ARE GONNA NEED IT!! 2d
BarkingMadRead I have my copy and I‘m ready to go!! It is delightfully thin compared to my copy of Golden Notebook 🤣🤣🤣 1d
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WAAAAAY too early to talk about spring here, we really don‘t have much of one- mid April to mid June typically. Nothing yet for spring sightings. Although we aren't buried in snow like usual. I don't usually plant til after May 15. We have snow through April in "normal" years. I do long to garden. It‘s so short that everything is “green" here. Still in the 20sF here at night 40s F in daytime. Which is a heatwave for March! The cards are my spring.

AllDebooks Brrr, so cold 🥶 2d
ElizaMarie Spring is slowly showing its face (I mean, it's cold but... some green is popping up, it is hard to find). I am excited though. I can't wait for hammock reading! 2d
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On we read!!!

#CHLOEGONGREADALONG

Me, hoping for a happy ending 🤣♥️🤷🏻‍♀️

vlwelser Voting for a happy ending. But even if it isn't I'm sure it will continue in another book. 3d
Meshell1313 Keep that hope alive! I just keep reminding myself it‘s based off Shakespeare so no one is safe 🤣 3d
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TheBookHippie @Meshell1313 I‘m ignoring that little fact. 😫 3d
DebinHawaii @TheBookHippie @Meshell1313 ignorance is bliss!!! 🫣🫣🫣 2d
TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii I KNOW!!! 😆 2d
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG

The real history as a background - BRILLIANT

The race to get Oliver ….
Dao Feng
Phoebe/Priest gets caught
Who is who and on what side!?!

vlwelser This book is awesome. This should be turned into a series. I would start watching tv for this. 3d
Meshell1313 I love how she weaves in the real history. It just adds another layer and so much depth to her stories. Brilliant! I also love how you look it all up for us! Thank you! 3d
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TheBookHippie @Meshell1313 🙃♥️🙃 3d
DebinHawaii Lots of layers…so many layers… I accidentally read an extra chapter. It‘s going to be hard to wait to read next week‘s section. Such a cliffhanger!!! 😱 2d
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG

Phoebe shoots out the tires..

Oliver keeps being shot up with drugs😫

SHEPHERD said … UM WHAT?!?! 😵‍💫

Phoebe & Rosalind
Shop
Rosalind tells her to give Silas an ultimatum..

Phoebe & Lady Hong
Mother & Daughter
Then-
SILAS 😵‍💫 WTAF😳🤯😱

📸 Lady Hong in my brain 🤣

vlwelser Lady Hong is fierce. Even if she's the villain. 3d
vlwelser Also Silas is cancelled. 3d
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5feet.of.fury My mind was blown when Silas showed up. Even after the said Shepherd I was thinking that‘s how he was getting in… but NOPE 3d
Meshell1313 @5feet.of.fury YES!! 3d
5feet.of.fury @Meshell1313 no clue what the end game is there, we have enough book left for another reveal but… I don‘t know why he would have been there.. 3d
TheBookHippie @5feet.of.fury so much book left!!! 3d
DebinHawaii I am so confused. I didn‘t trust him already but is Silas truly going to be bad or is he a quadruple agent who will end up helping?! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG

Celia
Rosalind
Alisa
Orion

Celia was the one who got Roma & Juliette safe♥️

Orions memory of Rosalind as children and relieving it with her…
All together now —— AWEEEEE♥️
Their connectedness is written so well.

Alisa protecting them with her wits!

These four together - so fun!

(Who knew Pinterest was full of Chloe Gong aesthetic! )

I can‘t tell you how much I love this book 🙃
Also WHEW..

vlwelser I love this book so much. And how adorable is Orion? 3d
TheBookHippie @vlwelser SO STINKIN SWEET! 3d
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5feet.of.fury @vlwelser LOVE Orion, all the little interactions with him & Rosalind make my heart so happy 3d
Meshell1313 Yes I love how all of our gaps are being filled in! 3d
DebinHawaii Yes, Orion & Rosalind may slightly edge out Juliet & Roma & Marshall & Benedikt as my current favorites. 😍 2d
TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii I know!!! Currently I‘m liking them the most! 2d
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#CHLOEGONGREADALONG

Silas
Phoebe
The church…
Who is in love with whom?!
Or is it neither …

🐇🐰 https://orthochristian.com/104813.html

vlwelser I'm leaning toward neither. They def don't trust each other. Or something. 3d
TheBookHippie @vlwelser It‘s a weird vibe! 3d
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5feet.of.fury They both have too many secrets & are so walled off. I don‘t think they are open enough to love eachother & they don‘t have that chemical attraction… 3d
Meshell1313 Lots of secrets and betrayals for sure 3d
DebinHawaii They confuse me. I just don‘t feel them as a couple.🤷🏻‍♀️Plus all the hidden agendas & secrets for sure. 2d
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Texreader ❤️❤️❤️ 3d
Hooked_on_books What an incredible video! Can I BE her?? 🤩 3d
Soubhiville I love this! 3d
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dabbe I am #gobsmacked! This is the best thing I've seen on youtube in ages! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this, Christine! 🤩🤩🤩 3d
TheBookHippie @Hooked_on_books I‘m in love with this I‘ve watched it a few times! 3d
TheBookHippie @dabbe It‘s so soothing. 3d
Ruthiella Fascinating! And she is so skilled! 🤯👍 3d
Crazeedi So very awesome, to touch old books, the smell, the feel, the aura... 3d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi It is just SO COOL. 3d
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St. Patrick's Day | Gail Gibbons
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☘️💚☘️ Shamrock Shakes at
Nana's after school, I'm Nana🙃☘️💚🤣

3 cups vanilla ice cream
1 cup whole milk
1/4 teaspoon mint extract (not peppermint)
9 drops food coloring
-then blend in blender

AmyG Yum! 3d
JackOBotts Looks so yummy! 3d
TheBookHippie @JackOBotts Better than I thought they‘d be! 🤣💚☘️ Quite yummy. 3d
dabbe You are the hippiest-coolest person, Nana! 💚☘️💚 3d
CoverToCoverGirl 💚💚💚 You rock Nana! 🤩 3d
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Betty Crocker's Cookbook | Betty Crocker
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#mtcookbook 👩🏻‍🍳

Texreader I made that cinnamon coffee cake often as a child. I need to make it again. I loved it!! 3d
TheBookHippie @Texreader it‘s so good!!! 3d
Tamra 😋😋 3d
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Aimeesue Betty! 3d
TheBookHippie @Aimeesue I love her. 3d
mabell Marmalade! That sounds good 3d
Crazeedi My go to cookbook for 40 ➕️ years!! 3d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi I need to know your favorites!! 3d
Crazeedi @TheBookHippie so many. I will pull it out and see. I've copied many for my recipe box. I make vanilla pudding from it 2d
Crazeedi Probably the pie crust 2d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi OH yes! I forgot about the pie crust! Now I must make it! 2d
Crazeedi @TheBookHippie pie crusts have to be very short before you add the ice water!! 2d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻thx!!! 2d
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Betty Crocker's Cookbook | Betty Crocker
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So… the cinnamon bread a huge hit
Blueberry I like mine better but it was good just a bit crispy 🤷🏻‍♀️

The boys don‘t like streusel 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ so I left it off.. my daughter and I LOVE IT. But we ate it before the picture 🤣🤣 and she had to go home🙃.

There is a page for quick breads and then under it is cinnamon blueberry etc..I‘ll post it next👩🏻‍🍳

#mtcookbook

Lsmoore43 YUM!!! 3d
Librarybelle They look so good! 3d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3d
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Texreader Oh I always made mine in an 8x8 dish. Hmmm, I may have to try a bread pan!! 3d
TheBookHippie @Texreader my child (35) is forever borrowing the two I own so …. 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 3d
Gissy 🍞 😋 3d
Tamra Delectable! 3d
AmyG I have this book somewhere…all broken in and stained. 3d
TheBookHippie @AmyG just like mine!!! ♥️♥️♥️ 3d
mabell Yum!! 3d
Crazeedi I was the "Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow " in high school home ec!! 3d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi I told the teacher off and got kicked out. OY TO THE VEY. Such a sassy thing I 'was'. AND she WAS wrong. LOLOLOLOL. 3d
Crazeedi @TheBookHippie you've always been a rebel! Right on!! 2d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi From birth. She was insistent that Margarine was BUTTER. Um no. Just NO. 2d
Crazeedi @TheBookHippie omg, I had a great cooking teacher! And a great sewing teacher, took home ec all 7 years 2d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi I did have a wonderful typing teaching and so I took her extra classes. She was wonderful. 2d
Crazeedi @TheBookHippie mine was not, but I took a year of it. She was soooo fussy about how you hold your wrists and fingers!! Lol 2d
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Gilmore Girls: The Official Cookbook | Elena Craig, Kristen Mulrooney
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#mtcookbook Friday night dinner Gilmore 👩🏻‍🍳

This was delicious ♥️

AlaMich Love me some fettuccini Alfredo!!! 3d
AlaMich Or well, you know, ANY pasta! 3d
dabbe My all-time fave. That looks incredible. 🤩🤩🤩 3d
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CatLass007 @AlaMich Pasta AND cheese! 3d
CatLass007 I‘m guessing that you are a fan of The Gilmore Girls and that motivated you to buy this cookbook. Did you watch the Netflix miniseries? What did you think of it? I‘m doing my best to consider it Lorelei‘s or Emily‘s nightmare. 3d
Tamra My favorite! 💙 3d
TheBookHippie @CatLass007 my kids gave me this for Christmas. I do have another one as well, but this is the first official cookbook. I watched Gilmore Girls from its debut in 2000. I watched it with my daughter, as soon as A Year in the Life dropped in 2016 I binged it.I own all of it on DVD. It is my anxiety cure. I‘ve most likely seen it over 100 times. There are things I love and things I do not about all of it. Over all I adore it. 3d
CatLass007 I loved the seven seasons of the original series. I binged A Year in the Life also. Parts of it were wonderful. I loved the tribute to Edward Hermann. I hate that Rory had so little self-respect as to have an affair with what‘s his name, knowing that they didn‘t have a future. She allowed herself to be used. I know love prods us to do things that are not always healthy for us emotionally, but eventually we need to protect our hearts. 3d
TheBookHippie @CatLass007 As soon as she slept with Dean she was the person she was portrayed in A Year, I believe. I see a lot of kids like her IRL turn out the exact same. True to life. She chose not to marry him after Yale. I actually think they loved each other, it just didn‘t work. What‘s that song, sometimes love just isn‘t enough 🙃. We have lots of fun discussing it my daughter and I. We both LOATHE Dean and younger Jess. 3d
mabell Classic! It‘s been a while since I‘ve made it - I‘ll have to move it up the list. It sounds delicious! 3d
AlaMich @CatLass007 A can‘t-miss combo!! 3d
CatLass007 I don‘t think I‘ve ever heard that song. I think you have a point about the parallels between sleeping with Dean and sleeping with (I had to look it up on IMDb) Logan. 3d
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Pickpick

My #FRIDAYNIGHTSHARE #litsolace #Naturalitsy
#fridaynightfiction choice is a beautiful picture book.

📕 The Reason for a Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen, and Seeds (Explore!) https://a.co/d/fDQLZf1

TheBookHippie Probs nonfiction but is told in story fashion, so much fun. (edited) 4d
AllDebooks That looks so lovely 😍 3d
kspenmoll Beautiful! 3d
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ShelleyBooksie Stunning! 3d
Crazeedi Love spring and summer because of flowers!! 3d
TheBookHippie @Crazeedi I CANNOT WAIT. Another two months.... 3d
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Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren
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#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2024 APRIL 💛👩🏻‍🦰

Everyone welcome to join us. I read bits with my morning coffee, post fun finds and reviews and articles. You are welcome to do the same using our hashtag. Low key reading. 🧡📙☕️

2024 schedule https://bookhippie.com/index.php/2023/10/01/childrens-classic-read-2024/

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Read4life I‘m ready. 🤓 4d
tpixie Yay!!! 😀 4d
willaful I have a busy April but I think I can make some time for Pippi! 4d
UwannaPublishme This is the first times since doing this challenge for the last few years that I already read the book. Since I love Pippi, I‘ll going to read: “Pippi Goes On Board” 3d
TheBookHippie @UwannaPublishme OH FUN!!!! And WOWIE 📔♥️ 3d
UwannaPublishme @TheBookHippie Thanks to you, I‘ve read a LOT of children‘s classics. 📚📚📚 And I‘m ready for more! 🤗 3d
julieclair I adored Pippi as a child! Looking forward to this. 3d
Bklover Oh, I loved Pippi! 3d
erzascarletbookgasm Hmmm, I‘ve never read this🙈, will look up a copy 👌 3d
bookwyrm7 Oooh I think I'll join you! And you've given me an idea! I have this huge Anthology of tales by Hans Christian Andersen and might do something similar to get me into the habit of writing again. 3d
rubyslippersreads I haven‘t read this in years, but I remember I loved it. 3d
TheBookHippie @bookwyrm7 How wonderful!! Feel free to join us any month! 3d
TheBookHippie @rubyslippersreads years ago I had a reader ask me if I was Mary Poppins or Pippi!!!! LOLOLOL!! 3d
GingerAntics My entire life it‘s been assumed that I knew this character and loved her… but I have honestly NEVER heard the stories or seen any of the movies/shows… perhaps it‘s time. 9h
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Heidi | Johanna Spyri
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#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2024 MARCH

My copy 🌸🐐👧🏼🌸

What does your cover look like?

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PurpleyPumpkin What a lovely cover!😍 I borrowed the audiobook from my library and when I added it to my Goodreads shelves, I realized just how many covers there are!!! Of course, none resembled my cover. 🙃 5d
mrp27 😍😍😍 4d
batsy I'm reading it on Serial Reader, which is nice (one installment a day with my morning coffee 🥰) but no nice cover 🫤 4d
TheBookHippie @batsy oh nice!!! 4d
tpixie @PurpleyPumpkin Goodreads says there are 3320 editions!!! @TheBookHippie is that the Puffin book? I thinks that‘s the edition I might buy for my granddaughter. My ebook has no picture on the cover & the link to the photos doesn‘t work , but I checked out 2 versions from the library with great pictures! 4d
TheBookHippie @tpixie link to my book. I have purchased the hard cover puffin as gifts before and it‘s lovely as well. 4d
tpixie @TheBookHippie oh! Thanks! That‘s a great edition also!! 4d
PurpleyPumpkin @tpixie Holy cow I had no idea!😳 4d
tpixie @PurpleyPumpkin wild?!! 🤪 4d
BarbaraJean I‘ll have to post some more pictures of mine—I‘m reading my mother‘s childhood copy, published in the 1940s. I posted the title page last week, which has a note from the friend who gave it to my mom on her 10th birthday. 🥹 (edited) 4d
UwannaPublishme Gorgeous cover! I‘m reading a 1963 edition I found at a thrift store. 4d
TheBookHippie @UwannaPublishme oh fun!!!! I found one thrifting too! I‘ll have to post it ! 4d
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Kristin Lavransdatter | Singrid Undset
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1. Kristin Lavransdatter

2. Les Miserables

3. JANE EYRE

Little Women, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Anne of Green Gables …..soooo many…THIER EYES WERE WATCHING GOD!

#TLT

dabbe I'm making a list, and checking it twice. Gonna share with all whether they're naughty or nice! 😂 Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 5d
TheBookHippie @dabbe I could make a massive list 🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 5d
dabbe @TheBookHippie I know you could! Feel free to keep adding here! I love picking that brain of yours! 🤩😍😃 5d
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TheBookHippie @dabbe Summer Sisters JUDY BLUME ♥️ The Color Purple, The Poet X, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Ibi Zoboi‘s
American Street, The House on Mango Street, Island of Blue Dolphins, Jacob Have I Loved, The Family by NAOMI KRUPITSKY, The Godfather!!!!! What the Fireflies Knew by KAI HARRIS, Sing Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward, Tell the Wolves I‘m Home by CAROL RIFKA BRUNT, Go Tell It on the Mountain
JAMES BALDWIN, perks of being a wildflower…
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AmyG Yes to all those! 5d
dabbe Wowza! This list is growing! Excellent choices. You made me miss teaching middle school--for a few seconds. 😂😂😂 4d
TheBookHippie @dabbe Just to say I do K4-2 and 9-12. 👀🙃 4d
JenP Good choices! 4d
dabbe @TheBookHippie That would make me #batshitcrazy! 😂 4d
TheBookHippie @dabbe I stopped grades 3-8 when I turned 50. The girls 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. Just no. 4d
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The time change 😵‍💫😫😵‍💫😫😵‍💫😫😵‍💫

#weirdwordwednesday

CBee SAME 😮‍💨🤪😫🫠 6d
annahenke I feel this deeply. 5d
jewright We have had thunderstorms with hail the past two nights. I‘m so tired because I‘ve been woken up multiple times a night by how loud it was. 4d
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Christine | Stephen King
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1. Nope. It was a WHOLE thing though 🤣 apparently, I‘ve never been told the WHOLE STORY….

2. 🚘 📕

#TWO4TUESDAY

TheSpineView What a mystery. Thanks for playing 6d
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See you SUNDAY #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD PEEPS

Free Women Three discussion 😵‍💫😝🤣👀🤐🤫

vlwelser Omfg this book. I got less than an hour left of this section. According to the kindle. 6d
TheBookHippie @vlwelser 🤦🏻‍♀️😵‍💫🤦🏻‍♀️ 6d
vlwelser 🤗😘 6d
mcctrish @vlwelser 🤣🤣 I‘m not sure we‘ve ever been so unanimous in our “omfg, this book” 6d
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Stanley the Mailman | William Bee
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All my #naturalitsycardswapspring cards are out into the world 🌸🌹🦋🌈☀️🌷🌻🍀🌼🐝🍃🐥

dabbe 💚💙💚 6d
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#LitSolace
Hi all, I'm checking in to see how you've been since our #Midwintersolace event ended. Are you ready for a mini Spring event? More hygge based fun to celebrate the return of Spring.
Please let @AllDebooks know if you wish to be added/ removed from the taglist. All are welcome to join us.

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https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/anavit%C3%B3ria-essentials/pl.73901b2e61a643...

Anavitória (Brazilian Portuguese: /ɐnɐviˈtɔɾjɐ/) is a Brazilian musical duo consisting of Ana Clara Caetano Costa and Vitória Fernandes Falcão.

#tuesdaytunes prompt

TheBookHippie ALSO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS 😱😵‍💫😝🫨 7d
AmyG Ugh Daylight savings. I was up reading from 2-4 this morning. Wide awake. (edited) 7d
TieDyeDude @TheBookHippie @AmyG So weird, I was up the same time. I'm trying to be more mindful, but I am usually absolutely miserable for the next couple weeks. It was a problem the first year or two dating my wife since I never really had to be around other people that much before 7d
TieDyeDude Also, I'm digging the harmonies! Thanks for the recommendation 7d
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The Nun S Story | Kathryn Hulme
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1. Reading & Writing

2. A nun. They could do social justice, travel, work without having to be married. ( showing my age BUT here‘s your reminder women couldn‘t have credit or outright own anything in their name until middle and late 1970s)

3. Just concerts planned so far

4. Rereading tagged a little serendipity

#motivationalmonday

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk oh it‘s good!!!! Enjoy!! 1w
Cupcake12 Great answers. Thanks for taking part and have a good week x 1w
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#FOODANDLIT BOOKSTACK 🇰🇷

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Why South Korean women aren't having babies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68402139

In honor of women‘s month

#foodandlit 🇰🇷

Catsandbooks It's sad they can't get the support they need to have a career and family 1w
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Untitled | Untitled
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#litsylove sent out today!!

@KateReadsYA one for you too, welcome to LitsyLove 💌

KateReadsYA Wow. You all are so kind! :) I'm very very excited 😍 thank you. 1w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💜💜💜 1w
Read4life 💙💌💙 6d
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The Bhagavad Gita | Anonymous Anonymous
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Pickpick

bhagavad gita has to be the oldest 🙃👀

#sundayfunday

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bhagavadgita

BookmarkTavern Very cool! Thanks for posting! 1w
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It‘s SUNDAY #HYGGEHOURREADATHON #HYGGEHOUR

Cannot wait 💚 such a must needed part of my week!

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AmyG Yes! I don‘t like any of them! 1w
IndoorDame A million characters, one of them seriously ought to be likeable! 1w
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame one would think… 1w
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mcctrish They are all miserable 1w
vlwelser I'm not really digging this book. But we're well past the halfway mark. So on we go. 1w
TheBookHippie @vlwelser It still intrigues me. However, whew😅😵‍💫. 1w
vlwelser There's something very 1950s about this. Like that Mary McCarthy book. 1w
TheBookHippie @vlwelser YAS!!!!! The Group. 1w
DebinHawaii OK, I never made it past the 125-ish page mark so I am calling it DNF for me. 😔 I just needed her to get to the point… some point…any point at all. Probably just not the right time for me & a sloggy chunkster. As much as I love our Sunday discussions, I‘ll still have Saturdays & #ChloeGongReadAlong this month! 🤗 I do admire all of you for tackling it & will be cheering you on! 🎉 1w
TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii No worries!!! See you on Saturdays and April 🙃♥️. 1w
DebinHawaii @TheBookHippie Of course! I have Zorrie ready to go! 🤗 1w
AllDebooks Thanks for the interesting links. It is fascinating, but the characters seem awful. 1w
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie I'm so behind as I'm just not enjoying reading about these people at all. Usually, there's some redeeming quality to be found. Maybe that comes later in the book, but I just don't have the interest to find out. Sorry, I have to bail. 😅 1w
TheBookHippie @AllDebooks no worries. 🙃 1w
mollyrotondo I don‘t like anyone either 😂 but still really intrigued by everything being said and the (slow) progress of this character. I still want to see where she lands. 1w
quietlycuriouskate Maybe I'm labouring under a delusion but I'm hanging in there for the golden notebook (much as I slogged through Ulysses for the sake of "earning" Molly's soliloquy). 6d
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate BEST ANALOGY yet. Agree. 6d
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#sundaybuddyread

Quote from pg 343 in my book seems to sum up this portion of reading.

“The point as it seems to me that my mind is a mass of totally contradictory attitudes about everything”

AmyG Hahahahaha YEP 1w
IndoorDame 💯🤣 1w
mcctrish All over the place for sure. I‘m sure it‘s why people think women are insane - but if misogynistic, patriarchal hogwash is constantly shoved down our throats ( Katie Britt comes to mind forcing this narrative ) it‘s no wonder. Women have to think way harder than men imo (edited) 1w
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vlwelser 💯 all over the place. 1w
mollyrotondo @mcctrish agree!!! 🎯 1w
mollyrotondo I love this quote. It‘s honest 😂 1w
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD

1954

“The housewives disease”
The relationship with Michael & it ENDS
Also, all these men. Not a good one in the bunch.

Anna‘s social party work

Anna‘s refusal to write book two or inability

For a feminist novel this sure is I need a man centered…

Anna resting on her laurels- too much time to think

Anna obsessing over her period et all

Anna worried about motherhood

AmyG I am surprised how much crap the women take from these men. 🤣 That one guy…who was so awful and thought she was amazing. He gave her not one second of physical pleasure…yet she stuck with it. 😳 (edited) 1w
TheBookHippie @AmyG RIGHT?! 😱 1w
IndoorDame I was disappointed that she sort of started to think about her daughter taking on all the same stresses in just a few years, and then abandoned that thought as, I don‘t know… inevitable? 1w
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IndoorDame Also the obsession with her period seemed insane 😂😅. Is there a generational thing I‘m just missing here? 1w
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Yes a little bit. The products we had to use were horrific and didn‘t help much with odor or even accidents. It was way more difficult to hide. And that was my experience. This is far earlier. 1w
IndoorDame @TheBookHippie that makes sense 1w
mcctrish @IndoorDame this obsession made me think of (recent to me knowledge) that women are often left out of medical trials and no studies are done on exclusive to women medical issues. I don‘t think the ‘obsession‘ is insane, there is still so much shame tied into menstruation like women are broken and dirty 1w
AmyG @mcctrish Yes…shame. All a bit “hush hush”. 1w
IndoorDame @mcctrish the medical trials thing is maddening! 1w
vlwelser Maybe this was sort of feminist in the 1950s. But maybe just because she's kind of calling some of this stuff out. 1w
TheBookHippie @vlwelser That is my only thought. 1w
mollyrotondo @vlwelser you are right. It‘s because she is pointing it out. Not making the women strong and ready to speak up to a man but just the writing about these issues women face and feel. Yeah. 1w
mollyrotondo I think her obsession with her period is relatable because I dwell on jt too when I have my period. Not the odor thing which seemed to be her real issue but just always needing to tend to it. 1w
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The Shadow of the Third

Ella to Paris

The “I definitely do not want to be married” quote the hypocrite?

Ella & Cy

Interesting her ideas of what is sex and intimacy ..

AmyG Alot of thoughts and feelings in this book. And yet…not so much action….except perhaps sex. (edited) 1w
IndoorDame Her ideas of sex and intimacy really make my skin crawl. (and the men are even worse!) But I see her possibly on the brink of realizing that she doesn‘t actually want these relationships, she‘s just been conditioned to define herself by them so she doesn‘t know how to break free… And it‘s hard to dismiss that completely when 70 years later women still have the same internal conflicts over things like going to restaurants alone. 1w
mcctrish If I hear the phrase “oh boy” once more in my lifetime IT WILL BE TOO SOON! Also if Cy is what sex was, I‘d be a lesbian not the mom to 5 boys 1w
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TheBookHippie @mcctrish celibate looks good when reading about him. Just YIKES. 1w
vlwelser This got sort of boring. Like who cares? 1w
mollyrotondo @IndoorDame she‘s so closing to realizing that this is not what she wants but it‘s taking her forever!!! The Cy affair was the worst!! At first I hoped Cy was going to be a gentleman (why I thought that I do not know) but then he was like yes I want to have sex with you but didn‘t know how to say it 🙄 and then he talks so rudely about his wife but thinks she has the life 🤯 and then he gives nothing in bed and thinks he‘s the man?! I wish she… 1w
mollyrotondo …would have told him wow you suck in bed in order to take ownership of herself and her sex life because he‘s a stranger so who cares about his feelings! But instead she strokes his ego. Uhh again where is the feminist story?!! 1w
quietlycuriouskate I don't understand why she is consenting to so much crap sex with these awful men. What @IndoorDame said makes sense of it, though. 6d
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame still thinking on this. If you aren‘t shown, witness foot even read about… you‘d, I assume, be seeking for an unnamed thing you believe can be out there? A lot of “this cannot be it”. Much to ponder on. 6d
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate optimistic ? 🤦🏻‍♀️😫😝🫨😵‍💫😞 6d
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