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I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. I had no idea that tulips were a big deal in the Netherlands. I was amazed at the obsession of the main character. It was a good story, but it did lose me at parts. 3.5 ⭐️

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This book didn't have a cover so this is a photo I took of tulips the last (only) time I was in the Netherlands.

This book is an exciting adventure about the quest to find/create a black tulip. It's typical Dumas. It's a little over the top and you sort of think all the way through that the hero will die and the villain will succeed with his evil plan.

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Day 25 #flowers #CuriousCovers

I thought I would have read many books with covers featuring flowers. Seems not. But I did find this one.

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1) The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas :)
2) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Also, I am not fond of Jane Austen books :)
3) Maybe The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

1- Coming back home to see that my friend cleaned my car while I was gone.

2- The Inferno from The Divine Comedy.

3- I don't do basketball, but Go Brew Crew 💙💛💙💛

4- I really liked The Black Tulip for some oddball reason.

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Well I'm out. I'll put The Black Tulip on my TBR again and read it from start to finish soon.
Good luck to everyone still going!
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Nap time!
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Twitter voted and here's the results!
I'm very excited about this. 12 hours to go, and this is about 7 hours long. I already know what I'll read after
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Two beautiful covers and two stories where flowers are a metaphor for something much darker. Both are quite good. Flowers make me happy. I buy myself flowers just because I want to. #happinessisresistance #flowers

I just started The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.

While it does lack the grand scope of Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, or even The Last Cavalier, The Black Tulip is classic Dumas: by turns sweepingly romantic and utterly ridiculous. A good pick for lovers of adventure stories that don't take months to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Found the perfect cozy read for the last days of the year. #Dumas #classics #Frenchlit

This is not a fast paced story, and on the surface it seems rather lame with its steady and slow pace filled with stupid characters and good characters and a plot centering around a black tulip. Amazingly, it all flowed together and captured my attention in a way that I cannot quite put into words. Dumas' storytelling is a treasure that gives me great reading satisfaction. {I finished reading this book on July 3, 2016 ~ rating 4/5 stars}

I'm reading too many books at the moment. Luckily, I can read at work.