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The Ladies of Missalonghi
The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough
The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron, nestled in the Blue Mountains, for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty. Hurlingfords by birth, all three are victim to the family's rule of inheritance: the men take it all. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger arrives in town. A divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending. This is an endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance, from the bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.
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Reposting for @BarbaraJean
Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

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BarbaraJean
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Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

BarbaraJean Tag list for journals and Emily‘s Quest: @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder 4d
BarbaraJean Okay, Missalonghi readers, I have no idea what‘s going on with chapters in this book. I have found no chapter divisions in the print copy. The Hoopla audio has 9 chapters. Searches online say: 1. There are chapters, 2. There are no chapters, 3. There are 19 chapters. All followed by the caveat: “AI answers may contain mistakes.” 🙄 I don‘t know where I got 22 chapters from. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So: read roughly half this week & we‘ll check in on Saturday! 😆 (edited) 4d
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TheAromaofBooks I just picked this up this morning and realized that it has no chapters 😂 Who does that!?!? 4d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Terry Pratchett does that and as much as I love Pratchett it drives me crazy! I started reading last night thinking I‘d read a couple chapters and see how far that took me. At page 30 of a 200-ish page book, I thought the first chapter was getting kind of long, and I started flipping ahead. By page 100 I realized I had yet again made a huge mistake in trusting a chapter count I found online 😂 4d
TheAromaofBooks That has actually been my biggest problem with reading the Discworld books! For some reason, the lack of chapters really turns me off of a book, and I can't even explain why 😂 4d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I feel the same—the lack of chapters turns me off! I think my brain prefers defined units of content so I know how many bits there are to parcel out. I've seen quotes from Pratchett saying he thought chapters broke up the natural flow of a story. But NOT having them kind of breaks my brain a little. I mean, you have to stop somewhere and I'd rather know where the author would stop! I guess he does use scene breaks, but still. ⬇ 4d
BarbaraJean The last Pratchett I read was an ebook version on Hoopla and it didn't even have any designation of where the scene breaks were. It gave me narrative whiplash to start a new paragraph and find I was suddenly in a completely different place with a different group of characters. That pulled me out of the narrative flow more than chapters would have! 4d
TheAromaofBooks Oh wow, that would be SO confusing! He definitely jumps around, so I can't imagine not even having the warning of an extra space! 😂 3d
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kwmg40
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Mehso-so

A historical fiction novel set in Australia of the early 1900s, this story was a quick and enjoyable read, but I found some of the characters' words and actions to be problematic.

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Andrew65 Looks fun, well done 👏👏👏 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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Teresereading
The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough
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Panpan

I started 2019 with a title from Colleen McCullough Lovely illustrations and the novella started promisingly, shades of a Thornbirds family saga. BUT the latter half descended into a slightly menacing farce. Disappointing, I often see it in charity shops and now I know why!

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Brona
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Brona
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It's #ausreadingmonth and we're having a readalong of TLOM - join us by #missyreadalong & pop over to the sign up post - http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/ausreadingmonth-is-here.html?m=1

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Brona
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That lovely moment when you realise you don't need a bookmark because your book has a pretty ribbon marker instead #happyreading #readathon @DeweysReadathon #missyreadalong

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I need to reread this book #setinsouthernhemisphere, as well as The Blue Castle, and see for myself what the controversy is about. #junebookbugs

AThousandLives87 I didn't know there was a controversy over The Blue Castle??? What's the big deal? 8y
rubyslippersreads @AThousandLives87 Some people thought the author had plagiarized The Blue Castle. Here's the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladies_of_Missalonghi 8y
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LeahBergen I've been meaning to do a comparison read for years. 8y
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen Let me know when you're ready—maybe that'll inspire me to do my reread. 😄 8y
LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads And the same back to you! 😂 8y
RealLifeReading Ok didn't know about any controversy before this but then again haven't read either book! 8y
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