The Red Sphinx

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The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

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False advertising. Is not a Musketeer sequel. While the novel opened strong it ended in an anticlimactic matter.

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

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The Red Sphinx is a highly entertaining adventure tale full of intrigue, sword fights, and a fair bit of chaste romance. I think that's why I love Dumas so much. There is so much joy in the text. I have so much more to say about this, but it can't fit into 451 characters, so more babbling about this sequel, translators, and Dumas on my blog:
https://wp.me/pKWKW-6m

#YearofDumas

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

I should totally go to bed, but I‘m having the best reading weekend I‘ve had all month and the Bookly app tells me I can finish The Red Sphinx in just over 2 hours. I don‘t think I can stay awake for 2 more hours, but I‘m going to “just one more chapter” myself until I pass out. 🤣🤣

AlaMich Does that bottom stat say 54 pages per hour?! Good grief, I'm jealous! I am the slowest reader ever and I would be lucky to do that many pages in a day. 5y

LiteraryinPA Congrats on your awesome reading weekend! 5y

DGRachel @AlaMich 🤣 It typically takes me between 1 & 1 1/2 minutes per page, so 40-60 pages per hour. It‘s now just after midnight and I‘ve finished The Red Sphinx. I‘m so happy that even though I‘ll be tired and cranky at work, it‘s worth it! 5y

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DGRachel @LiteraryinLititz Thanks! 5y

AlaMich @DGRachel I finally began The Count of Monte Cristo yesterday and am enjoying it quite a bit. 😊 5y

DGRachel @AlaMich Awesome! It‘s on my schedule for August, I think. I don‘t have a Dumas novel scheduled for September, so I think I may take two months to read it instead of one. It‘s big. 😆 5y

AlaMich @DGRachel Yes, loonnnggg. I‘m throwing everything at it: paperback Penguin edition, Kobo Penguin edition, and one of the audio versions, which is a different translation. 😆 5y

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

“Etienne Latil, last seen entering the cardinal‘s study in Chaillot, pale, knees trembling, supporting himself against the wall, and feebly offering his devotion. But now with head high, mustache bristling, a spring in his step, hat in his right hand and the left on the pommel of his sword, he was once again that captain who might have stepped out of a sketch by Callot.”

(I 💛 these illustrations)

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

No, Dumas, I do not recall Latil describing anyone as the duke‘s thug-in-waiting. At nearly 300 pages into this 800+ page novel, there have been so many characters that I can‘t remember them all, let alone remember things said about them! 🙄 And, for heaven‘s sake, which duke are we talking about? There‘ve been at least a dozen already! 😭😭

Bette 🤣 5y

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

“Souscarrieres entered with such an air of nonchalance, giving His Eminence such a casual greeting, that it was tantamount to effrontery.”

I‘m enjoying the illustrations between chapters in this edition! #yearofdumas

Lcsmcat That is a great illustration! 5y

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

This has been a spectacularly rotten week. I‘m going to hide in my blanket fort with my octopus mug full of hot chocolate and read my book, since the migraine has finally abated enough that I can actually read. Happy Friday, everyone. Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend!

TrishB Hope the weekend is better ❤️ 5y

ShyBookOwl TGIF! Enjoy 💜 5y

CoverToCoverGirl Next week will be better! (((Hugs))) 5y

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BehindthePages Feel better! 5y

BookishTrish Take care. Hope the weekend is the turning point. 5y

writerlibrarian That's a very reasonable weekend. I'm doing the same. Enjoy Dumas. 🙂 5y

Grrlbrarian Happy weekend. And that‘s a top quality octo-mug 😍 5y

Jas16 I hope that next week is better. ❤️ 5y

AlaMich How are you enjoying your #yearofdumas? I have been trying to gird myself to crack open Monte Cristo, but it looks so imposing! 5y

DGRachel @AlaMich I‘m enjoying it so far. The Three Musketeers was a reread for me, but The Red Sphinx is new. I find the difference in translator styles fascinating. So far, not have been readable, but Lawrence Ellsworth is definitely wordier. 5y

DGRachel @AlaMich Also, Monte Cristo is on my list for September. I‘m finding the length of the books to be a lot less intimidating when broken up into a full month. Red Sphinx is just 30 pages per day, which is doable for me. 😊 5y

AlaMich I‘m a very slow reader so Monte Cristo will probably last me until summer! 5y

ValerieAndBooks Hugs! Hope the weekend is good to you. 5y

IamIamIam If you're intimidated by The Count, try it on @SerialReader! I've read it twice so for my third time, I went with this. You get issues so you're only reading between 10 and 15 minutes a day. It's really great!!! @AlaMich 5y

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

So...my MRI results weren‘t the “absolutely nothing to worry about” that I expected, more of the “something‘s going on but will require further, possibly painful, testing” so I took the day off to wallow. #Bailey is keeping me company while I read and try not to panic, since panicking just triggers migraines, as I was reminded last night. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤕

Redwritinghood Keeping my fingers crossed for you. 🤞🏻🤞🏻 5y

DGRachel @Redwritinghood Thanks! I‘m oddly hopeful something shows up in the blood work, because if it doesn‘t then the next step is a spinal tap and the thought of that terrifies me. 5y

Mollyanna Sending best wishes. Hopefully the blood work shows something. I‘ll keep my fingers crossed. 5y

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ValerieAndBooks Hoping for the best possible outcome of all this 💖 5y

Jas16 Keeping you in my thoughts and sending ❤️ 5y

Smrloomis 😣 Hope it all works out well in the end. 🤞🏽 Sending you some good thoughts! (edited) 5y

wanderinglynn Sending you positive vibes and loads of {hugs} 💚 5y

youneverarrived Hope you‘re ok ❤️ 5y

rockpools Hoping for the best possible results in your bloodwork. *hugs* 5y

rachelm Sending love! 5y

vivastory I'm sorry to hear this! Hopefully you get good news from your blood work! 5y

Tanisha_A Hope all is okay ❤️ 5y

mrp27 Oh no. Hope further testing gets the results you want. 5y

Eggbeater My Rose sends her snuggles too. 🐶 Hoping for the best possible outcome. 5y

Moray_Reads Sorry the news wasn't the best. I hope you're tests are short and as painless as possible and you get a better result in the end xx 5y

ljuliel ♥️♥️♥️ Thinking of you. 5y

Megabooks Sending hugs! 🤗💙💞 I‘m so sorry. 5y

Louise Sending very best thoughts and encouraging hugs. May all be well. 💗 5y

MaureenMc 💗💗 5y

DGRachel @Mollyanna @ValerieAndBooks @Jas16 @Smrloomis @wanderinglynn @youneverarrived @RachelO @rachelm @vivastory @Tanisha_A @mrp27 @Eggbeater @Moray_Reads @ljuliel @Megabooks @Louise @MaureenMc Thank you, everyone, for your kind words. I needed the day of sticking my head in the sand. 😊 5y

readordierachel ❤❤❤ 5y

BookNAround Hard to hear there‘s something but hopefully it turns out to be less alarming than anything you imagine. (((Hug))) 5y

IamIamIam Wishing you all the best and hope you get some answers soon!!! 5y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Oh no! I‘m sorry!! Please let me know 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️ 5y

DGRachel @readordierachel @BookNAround @IamIamIam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you all. 🥰 5y

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DGRachel

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

My proposed #FebruaryTBR: a new edition of my favorite Austen, the tagged book for my #yearofdumas, my #librarything #earlyreviewers win, my current audiobook, two NetGalley ARCs for March, my work book club‘s Q1 pick, and a sampling of my #MountTBR personal reading challenge February theme of romance novels. I don‘t like to listen to romances, so I‘m not sure what I‘ll listen to this month-probably An American Marriage since I‘m dreading it. 😆

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mwgerard

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

An embarrasment of riches from Pegasus Books

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MrBook

The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers | Dumas Alexandre

#TBRtemptation post! This is Dumas' not-quite-finished sequel to T3M. Combined with a novella, "The Dove", the narrative completes. This picks up 20 days after where T3M left off. Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, King Louis XIII all vie for power. It introduces a real historical figure, the Comte de Moret, Louis' half-brother. Conspiracy & romance await! Fits reading challenge categories: 150 years ago, 800+ pages, etc. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

MamaGina You've taught me something new today...I had no idea there was a sequel; by the looks of that cover the high drama continues!⚔️ 8y

Purpleness There are a couple of other sequels, if I recall correctly; Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. The Vicomte is sometimes separated into a couple of books, depending on the edition, so be careful that you get the while thing. 8y

MLRio I need it in paperback! So it matches my copy of Last Cavalier.