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Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: ‘Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!'
#TreasureIsland #RobertLouisStevenson #lastline #closingline #Classics #Fiction #Literature #Adventure #HistoricalFiction #YoungAdult #Childrens #Pirates #Fantasy

Today is #TalkLikeAPirateDay! Not necessarily a fan of pirates per se, but “pirate talk“ is both fun and ridiculous, and Treasure Island is a fantastic book that doesn't glamourise piracy. In any case, my pirate name is Cap'n Dora Bloodbeard 😎 What's yours?
Pirate name generator: http://gangstaname.com/names/pirate#.XYOY90ROk0M

Day 27 #SetOnIsland #AboutABook
#FolioSociety #MyNeverendingTBR

#AboutABook #SetOnIsland
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

⭐️⭐️⭐️I love pirates!!! 🏴‍☠️ I needed to learn the fates of these men after devouring Black Sails. The audio was very entertaining although a bit cartoony for me in comparison but overall fun.

Before my 1st year as a teacher, I didn't have much $$ to buy classroom wall posters. My mom made me a bunch of posters by hand. This was my favorite and is my most cherished possession of hers. Drawn back in 1994. You can still see her pencil marks. 💛💛💛

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

Play? @Deblovestoread @Liseworks @bthegood

I've never met any authors in person. But I'm friends and talk on the phone with Garrett James, a new indie author whose books I have blurbed here on Litsy recently.

I'd love to meet Neil Gaiman. I own a few of his books, but they're still residing in my humongous TBR piles. Yeah, that's piles with an s.

I wish I could have met Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Louis Stevenson.

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern @DaveGreen7777 @wanderinglynn

I just had to get this set of vintage children‘s classics when I saw them. I had a set like these when I was a kid in the 90‘s but never knew what happened to them.

4.4⭐️ honestly, I don‘t know why am surprised I love this book. I absolutely love pirates, so it seems a bit obvious that this would be a book I enjoyed. Yet I was very surprised and pleasantly so.

A delayed #bookreport #weeklyforecast

Felt a bit scattered last week, one short finish and hopping between several on the go. We'll see how this week goes, but I definitely want to finish Treasure Island on audio because my hold for Ace came in and I'm really looking forward to that one.

Treasure Island- a great adventure with twists and turns.

Some potential December reads

#OnThisDay #Nov14

The Old Sea Dog at the ‘Admiral Benbow‘
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Indie bookstore haul contains #treasure even if it‘s from several months ago. #volumesandvocala

"One leg, Jim. Count 'em: One"

#themedthursday @dabbe

I listened to the audio performance and though some of the action scenes were a little too chaotic for me and made me wish that it wasn‘t a performance style audio, I still overall enjoyed this version of the classic pirate story. It has been a long time since I last read it, so I liked having my memory refreshed and to see how this has influenced modern pirate stories. I am also counting it as my #Seychelles pick for #ReadAroundTheWorld!

#Pirate

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate‘s loot on treasure island.” Walt Disney

My #roll100 books for January in the order I‘m going to read them! # 96 Treasure Island, # 44 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and if I can get to it, # 84 Before I Fall

Double and triple-crossing pirates, a treasure, an isolated island, and oh so much rum. A grand adventure story.

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#OnThisDay in 1881 Treasure Island began serialization in Young Folks children's magazine. It proved less-than-popular in serialized form, children complained at the slow pacing, but its following grew one published as a complete novel. In the ensuing century and (nearly) a half, it has become one of the most adapted works in the English language (once the Muppets have a version, you know it's a hit!). #HistoryGetsLIT

I attended the Romeo Peach Festival in Michigan. At the art fair there was vendor Holly Sifferman Bookfolding (Etsy and Facebook). Isn‘t this TALL SHIP AMAZING?!!!!

Audiobook from LibriVox.
#classic #librivox #audiobook

I took a picture of my #indiebookstore haul and forgot to post it! They have a big front window that they like to paint, and right now there‘s a big sailing ship. #pirates #artfulaugust

I'm super excited about participating this challenge, hosted by @aperfectmjk !! You create a GR shelf labeled “trapped on an island“ and then get matched up to someone else, picking books from their list that they “have“ to read that month because those are the “only“ books that survived the shipwreck and washed up on the island with them! 😂 Looking forward to both picking and reading books for this one!! #trappedonanisland

This was my #BookSpin for May, and another classic checked off the list!! Despite genuinely loving the Muppet version of this story, I had never read the original. It was a lot of fun, even if completely implausible, and I can see why it kept young lads in 1883 glued to the pages! Personally, I like the Muppets better - Stevenson's version is sadly lacking in catchy musical numbers. Still a fun read!!

This edition includes The Ebb-Tide, which I⬇️

Trying to read some more classics via Serial app. Enjoying combining serial issues with free audiobook versions. 30 mins well-spent each morning!

A grand adventure! And I think I am a little bit in love with Long John Silver. #Booked2022 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: ‘Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!'
#TreasureIsland #RobertLouisStevenson #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #Classics #Fiction #Adventure #HistoricalFiction 💘

Saw a couple of my Litsy friends talking about this one recently and prompted me to grab my own copy, never read this classic before 🏴‍☠️

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I guess there's a reason why people are still reading this novel 140 years after it was written, it's a real treasure.

This is the first book I've read by fellow Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson and it won't be my last.

I'm already looking forward to checking out "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

In the meantime, I'm really looking forward to watching "Muppet Treasure Island" with the kids. ?

This was a fun adventure tale, with bloodthirsty pirates, buried treasure, and a heroic boy narrating most of it. Long John Silver is a kind of terrifying villain, charismatic and brutal by turns. Squire Trelawney is an idiot and responsible for hiring a crew of pirates who try to kill him and his compatriots. #roll100 #5 @PuddleJumper

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1) Sometimes, yes.

2) Can't think of one that I want to read and haven't yet. I'd like to reread Treasure Island, not sure why though.

How about you, @RaeLovesToRead @kwmg40 @gradcat @Susanita?

My #Roll100 picks for March are the tagged for #5 and Guns, Germs, and Steel for #28 and I‘m looking forward to both. March is going to be crazy so I‘m scaling down my reading plans, but 🤞🏻 I‘ll complete these two.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ◼️ First off, I apologize....but I am catching up on reviews. This is the first book I finished this month. #LitsyLove #August #Bookspinbingo #classics https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/788990924

Here‘s my review for another book I finished listening to. I‘m counting this book for #bookishbingo for the prompt “Audiobook” and I‘m counting this book for reading challenges that I‘m participating in this year.

☑️Read A Book Set On A Beach Or An Island - #tbrknockout
☑️It‘s On A Ship! - #beatthebacklist
☑️A Book Set Mostly Or Entirely Outdoors - #popsugarreadingchallenge2021

🎧📚 Jim Hawkins is an innkeeper who meets an old sailor Who dies mysteriously. Jim finds a treasure map and all sorts of tomfoolery ensues when he finds buried TREASURE!!

Treachery! Murder! Mutiny! Castaways!

And at the center of everything is the baddest evilest pirate ever to sail the high seas, Long John Silver!! So bad they named a chain of fast food fish restaurants after him! He‘ll stop at nothing to get that booty!

⭐️⭐️⭐️3/4 👇🏻

Treasure Planet is one of my absolute favorite Disney movies!

I am so excited to listen to this audiobook and see how different it is from the movie.

Has anyone listened this?

I can totally see how it's a classic. What an adventure!

March 14/25 #LitsyLove

Another Middle Grade book AND a classic! “Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!” A classic pirate tale and an Audie award winner. I liked this version a lot especially Jim Hawkins. His mother was great, too. I can imagine myself on an adventure like that with my son. Long John Silver was portrayed well, too. #100YEARS100BOOKS #BookSpinBingo #1 #BFC21 #MGMarch #MarvellousMarch

The Old Sea Dog at the ‘Admiral Benbow'
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#12coloursofdecember Dec 17 Gold 10 points plus 1 #wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick

https://www.luulit.com/product/treasure-island-an-audible-original-drama-audible...

Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny, starring Catherine Tate (BAFTA-nominated, The Catherine Tate Show, The Office, Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Outcast, Life On Mars), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones, Pulse, Last Legion)...

An adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, it is a classic tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co., it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 and 1882. The dialogue was trite and at times repetitive
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear.