Prepping for our Q4 #chunksterchallenge2023 read with @Kelly326 (this one is more like a mini-chunk).
Thank you for hosting, @Amiable ! We love picking these big books to buddy-read every year!
#bookspinbingo
pickI enjoyed this classic. It was written in 1859. I consider it a gothic mystery. The reader follows along from each person's view of where they were when it happened. It's the first classic I have read in a long time and I enjoyed stepping back in time to see how society was during that time.
Finished listening to it with one day to spare🙂
#BookSpinBongo #classics #libbyapp
Started this audiobook today, while I cleaned the house. It's been on my TBR list for awhile. Enjoying it so far but only 20% in.
#classics
Book poetry - The woman in white answered prayers Saturday up in honey's room
so-so#bigbookchallenge.#52bookclub23 #cliffhangers I am glad I read this Vivtorian "sensational" novel. It has been on my TBR for years. It is very sexist, xenophobic as well as fat shaming. You can feel the change of what is acceptable is society. It was entertaining, and I enjoyed the mustache twirling. @Clwojick @BookBelle84 @jennifer80 @Librarybelle @triplem80 @AshleyHoss820 @LauraReads @KarenUK @britt_brooke @CarolynM @Smarkies @Bluebird
1. I almost said Elizabeth Bennet, but I'll go with Marion Halcombe from The Woman in White.
2. This doesn't exist, but I want Marion in a graphic novel spin-off where she works through her internalised misogyny and becomes a suffragette by day and a superhero (suffrage-hero) smashing the patriarchy by night. The self-righteous Mr Hartright is relegated to sidekick as she matches wits with her nemesis, Count Fosco.
#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
pickI absolutely loved this book. I loved the way the author used various narrators rather than one to unveil the intricacies of the whole story.
The characters were each brilliant; the storytelling exceptional. Uncle Fairlie was my favorite. His account made me laugh aloud as I read.
I highly recommend this story. I have already picked up a second work by Wilkie Collins and am looking forward to diving into it.
Love road trips - but to think of a fictional character to go with is quite hard. I've never been one for #fictionalcrushes
Being so infatuated and happy with the men irl - my boo especially, that is.
I'd love going on a road trip and getting lost with him. 😊
Well, back to the question. If had to pick one, I'd go with Walter Hartright from the tagged book. He's the closest I ever got to a fictional crush.
#SundayFunday #gothic #roadtrips
#AlphabetGame Letter W
One of the gems I discovered on the list of #1001books. This gothic novel is fantastic!
I sometimes wonder what the epistolary novel of the 2030s onwards will be like. Just a smattering of cobbled together conversation snippets, written in text shorthand and punctuated by emojis? 🤔
#readermusings
I read more in October than I expected with a total of 14 books, and 6 of those are on the #1001books list. It was an interesting mix, but The Woman in White was a clear favorite.
#ReadingStats #MonthlyStats #BookSpinBingo
pickThis story was so good and a perfect October read! The mysteries were fascinating and completely explained in the end. I enjoyed all the gothic aspects without feeling they were overly dramatic as in so many stories. I appreciated seeing the story from different perspectives and how they all came together. Additionally, the narrators of this audio version were fantastic.
#audiobook #1001books #Reading1001
I‘ve been listening to this book off and on throughout the day, and it‘s a perfect atmospheric read for the end of October. I‘m enjoying it so much that I might actually finish it tomorrow.
#1001books #audiobook #audiowalk
Good morning! I‘m looking forward to participating more in today‘s #Deweys24HourReadathon than I have recently. This is my main TBR stack. I‘m starting with The Woman in White on audio while posting, getting breakfast, and doing some housework. I hope to finish Song of Solomon and Romeo & Juliet later today. #Readathon
Opening Survey on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18076759-daisey-s-readathon?page=2
Classic tale that I feel like gets talked about in other novels and I had to track it down! You know when you just want to find a book the old fashioned way? Second hand bookshop with a shipment of classics for the win!
Can't wait to see how it is! Anyone read it before?
#gothic #white #wilkiecollins
🎧 up next 🎧
For those of you who like bookish podcasts....
The first episode is all about the tagged book, The Woman in White.
pickWow, this 1859 novel has it all! A rich cast of characters, an inciting incident on a spooky night, a pure-hearted romance, legal puzzles, detective thrills, secret correspondence, questions of identity, and intense sexism and ableism!
I love tracing lineages in media, and many books I‘ve enjoyed owe this one quite a lot, especially My Cousin Rachel and Fingersmith. I recommend The Woman in White for readers with similar taste, but 👇🏻
so-soNot sure why this book tends to get classified as a horror since there‘s nothing paranormal. The story is pretty interesting and the characters are great, but it felt way longer than it needed to be.
The narrator was great at doing different voices for different characters, but he got way into the idea of dramatic suspense even when there was nothing suspenseful.
pickThis will go into my 10 best books read this year. It's a classic, gothic mystery read beautifully by Ian Holm. 5 ⭐ s
Time to start my spooky read of October. My friend, who lives in Jamaica and I have started a reading tradition. We chose a book in the public domain or one we both have access to and read it texting our thoughts to each other after each chapter. We decided that October needed a good spooky classic.
For #Victober I‘ve begun reading The Woman in White, a mystery novel by Englishman Wilkie Collins, published in 1859.
I haven‘t read a book written before 1900 nor one over 600 pages in a couple of years, so I figured I‘d take the opportunity to vary my reading diet.
It‘s been an engaging and easy read thus far, sexism and ableism aside. Reading a “sensation” mystery has been perfect for my otherwise totally unspooky October! 🌙☁️🕯
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
📚 Tagged
📚 Frankenstein
📚 The Harry Potter books
I loved this book so much, and the TV adaptation. Lots of #ethereal moments and figures. #beautifulwords
pickExcellent mystery. The changes in narration were very interesting, a very unique book. Took me a while to read it, but I always maintained interest. I did see a good amount of twists coming, but there were some that surprised me. Definitely loved the characters, very well rounded and described. Easy to root for their success or failures. Would definitely recommend 8.5/10
pickWhat a complex mystery! Although the book dragged quite a bit at some points, and it was a little repetitive, especially toward the end, it was thoroughly enjoyable, and it kept me guessing.
@Eggs #wonderouswednesday
1- bookish item, a bookmark from my university
2- I listen to 2-3 audiobooks month. Usually everyday back and forth to work, knitting, and cooking.
Thanks @shortsarahrose for the tag!
3- consider yourself tagged 🙂
Day 22 - #WhiteAndBlue #FestivePhotoChallenge #WinterGames #JingleBallers #TheWomanInWhite #WilkieCollins
Published in 1859, we are immediately intrigued by the narrative - a young and genial tutor of arts, Walter Hartright, encounters a woman dressed head to toe in white who is lost in the streets of London. After reporting her to the authorities Walter is informed that the lady was an escapee from a mental asylum.
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#QuotsyDec19 Day 15: #Tea
“We don't want genius in this country, unless it is accompanied by respectability - and then we are very glad to have it, very glad indeed.“ - the father of the two girls that Pesca taught Italian to (probably a real minor character)
I don't think this character will make an appearance again, but found this quote to be interesting just the same.
“You see I don't think much of my own sex, Mr. Hartright - which will you have,
tea or coffee? - no woman does think much of her own sex, although few of them
confess it as freely as I do.“ - Miss Marian Halcombe
I struggled at first with the old fashioned language. The characters are unique and introduced slowly enough that I can keep them separated. Really starting to enjoy it. Opening up like a butterfly.
No sooner do I finish one chunkster than I start another. Isn‘t that what a holiday is for?
Day 20 - #classicyouhavenotread - this is one I bought ages ago, still not read #gratefulreads
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
Walter Hartright encounters a #beautifulstranger all in white and his life is forever changed from there ad he unravels the mystery of her past. Gothic horror at its finest 🖤
#movember
Mystery and Gothic Fiction
Sensation Novel
Pages: 512
Date started: October 16, 2019
Date finished: October 30, 2019
I thought the cover was quite beautiful. After reading the synopsis, this mystery set in the Victorian era got me hooked. I really liked the alternating narratives from different characters.
pickA gripping Victorian Gothic - an evil husband, a wronged woman, a noble suitor. Asylums, locked rooms and a race across London. I enjoyed this mammoth book immensely, although, as a modern reader, I much preferred the forthright and practical character of Marian to the simpering and childlike Laura.
“It is the grand misfortune of my life, that nobody will let me alone. Why, I ask everybody why, why worry me? Nobody answers that question and nobody lets me alone.” - Frederick Fairlie, Esq.
One of the best sets of opening chapter lines ever!
I feel so much more terribly about the fate of Anne on reread. Collins didn‘t write enough empathy into the other characters for her sad existence and fate.
Two #NYC bookclubs today 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! First one was the #2030SomethingLongReadsBookClub, and we read the tagged book. Everyone liked this thick Victorian novel, arguably the world‘s first mystery novel. 😊
Have you read it?!
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