Litsy

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

These dudes, with their love triangles, infighting, and grudges! Don't ever let anyone tell you men are not full-on bringing the drama all. the. damn. time. We learn more about Yorke today, and you know what? I mostly love him; I can hardly ever resist a "rebel and blasphemer". Alas, he also succumbs to the drama and the chapter ends with him angrily throwing everyone out of his house. These men - so emotional! #HashtagBrigade

Andrea313 #HearMeOut #YorkeIsWellEducatedAndWellTraveled #HeBowsToNoMan #HatesTheExploitativeRich #KnowsKingsAreBullshit #KnowsPriestsAreJustAsBad #StandsUpToPushyAssholes #LoveForMaryStandsTheTestOfTime #HatesAManOnHerBehalf #ThatsOnAllyship #MaybeTooProudAndJudgemental #ButIDontHateHim #Yet 5h

BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣 4h

willaful You just can't trust men at that time... of ever. 😂 4h

Austen_meets_Annie 🤣 3h

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 4: #wahwahwah #helstonegotthegirl #ignoredthegirl #thegirldied #wahwahwah #yorkehateshelstoneforit #helstoneisclueless #wahwahwah #yorkekicksthemout #wheresshirley #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @bookwormjillk @kwmg40 @thebookhippie @eeclayton @jacqmac @daisey @mcctrish @elizamarie @clare-dragonfly @ruthiella @thearomaofbooks @larkken @bklover @barbarajean @dabbe @cuilin @lil1inblue 6h

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 6h

Bklover No kidding! Where IS Shirley?! And is Shirley female? Back then (until the Shirley Temple era) Shirley was a man‘s name. Who knows. 🤔 6h

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dabbe I thought LARK RISE was hard to get going ... but this ... 😳 6h

Bookwormjillk I‘m glad I‘m not the only one struggling with this. I thought it was just a post holiday potato coma or something 5h

lil1inblue @dabbe @bookwormjillk If I didn't know better, I would wonder if I'm reading the right book. Such a slow start! 4h

KAO Every time that the narrator addresses us directly as readers, I hear the voice of Lady Whistledown from the “Bridgerton” series in my head: “Dear Reader…”! 4h

ElizaMarie @KAO ooo me too! I kinda liked her addressing us throughout! 3h

Deblovestoread Same! It reminds me why I didn‘t make it very far the first time. She‘s got to be showing up soon! Was Brontë hoping this beginning would draw in the men? ? 3h

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BookishMarginalia

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Current reading companions #TrickyCat and #DavidCat — in the background, #ChipmunkCat

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rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 1d

Leftcoastzen Awww !😻😻😻 1d

Gissy 😻😻😻 1d

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🤎 1d

AnnCrystal 💕😻🐾😻🐾😻💝. 20h

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Andrea313

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Helstone and Moore go to rescue the men bound on Stilbro' Moor and fight about their opposing political views the whole way. This comes after our narrator becomes a disappointing apologist for Helstone, the "warlike" parson. He may be "without sympathy; ungentle; and prejudiced" ...but any criticism for that is just "poisonous rancour". ? The bar for men has always been in Hell! Anyway, the translation for the chapter's French dialogue is above.

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #HelstoneIsGunningForAFight #GunningBeingTheOperativeWord #GeoPoliticalArguments #MrYorkeRescuesTheMen #YorkeOffersDrinksAndFood #NoStringsAttached #YorkeHasASweetPad #HePlaysGuitar #HeSpeaksFrench 1d

Ruthiella Merci! 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 3: #blahblahblah #whigs #blahblahblah #tories #blahblahblah #politics #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @willaful @crinoline_laphroaig @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 1d

mcctrish That was a LOT of blah that ended with a paragraph in french 🤯 #asyouwish 1d

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TheBookHippie @mcctrish 😅 1d

Bookwormjillk Blah blah blah then blah blah blah in French. I had forgotten the Brontës do that. 1d

Tineke Perfect for reading in bed then. I will probably promptly fall asleep. 😂
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BookishMarginalia 🤣🤣🤣 1d

KAO Thank goodness for endnotes with English translation! 1d

Deblovestoread I am assuming whatever it was at the end it wasn‘t important 🤣 1d

BarkingMadRead @Deblovestoread it was not important. More of the same. But in French 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

willaful Now I remember why I haven't read this one. 😂 I am enjoying parts of it though. The narration has a sense of humor. 1d

dabbe @KAO 🎯🎯🎯 1d

Ruthiella Um…where‘s Shirley? 👀 1d

BarkingMadRead @ruthiella #wheresshirley is that like where‘s Waldo? 1d

lil1inblue @BarkingMadRead That needs to be a hashtag. #butinfrench 🤣 1d

lil1inblue @Ruthiella My thoughts exactly after this chapter. 😅 1d

eeclayton @Ruthiella @lil1inblue @BarkingMadRead Are we quite sure it's a person? I mean I thought Villette was a girl's name before reading the book, so 1d

BarkingMadRead @eeclayton @ruthiella @lil1inblue I am flying blind, I have no clue 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk I said out loud something along the lines of, “Oh, COME ON, Charlotte!” 1d

Clare-Dragonfly @Ruthiella Moore has a sister who has been mentioned a few times but not named, so I‘m thinking it‘s her? There has to be a female MC at some point, I saw several covers on Storygraph with pictures of women… 1d

Austen_meets_Annie @BarkingMadRead can you change my name on your list from Crinoline Laphroaig to my new name? I haven't been getting tags. I'm catching up I'm on Ch 3. 1d

Austen_meets_Annie I to am wondering where's Shirley? 1d

BarkingMadRead @Austen_meets_Annie yes! 1d

Bookwormjillk Haha #wheresshirley 1d

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Andrea313

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Chapter 2 is a doozy! I love any narrative that reminds us to reflect on labor history and the rights of workers and this chapter is IT. The Luddite uprisings are in full swing and the pitiless capitalist known as Robert Moore is bringing in new machinery, which the workers cannot abide. Despite how the term is used today, the Luddites were not explicitly anti-tech; they were pro-worker, which included highly skilled craftspeople, i.e. artists.

IriDas Now I‘m gonna have to research the term. It sounds like it was co-opted by the ruling class so that when people hear the term they automatically turn away thereby “volunteering” to be kept from the truth. 2d

Andrea313 #MooreAndMaloneAreMisogynists #PetticoatGovernment #GirlFuckYou #MooreSleepsInTheMillWithJoeScott #WouldYouPreferAMaleCompanionMeme #IBrakeForFrameBreakers #ArtistsAreLaborWorkers #WhenAreWeMeetingToGoSmashUpAIDataCentersToProtectArtists 2d

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade 2d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 2: #holyheck #thesemenhatewomen #ugh #karmacomesfast #starvingvillagersrevolt #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish I hope the villagers were led by women 2d

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ElizaMarie These men are so full of themselves! 2d

Clare-Dragonfly Not sure what the point was of having Malone with his guns and shillelagh at the mill when the attack came on the road! 2d

lil1inblue I love how the Brontës always remind me that men have not changed one bit in 200 years. 2d

dabbe @mcctrish 🤣🎯🤣 2d

dabbe And Moore just whips out a full meal in his mill? 😳 2d

Bklover @lil1inblue 🎯🎯🎯 2d

Andrea313 @lil1inblue THIS. I'm reading these first two chapters going, "Wait, I know these guys!" 2d

BarkingMadRead @Andrea313 omg he even said Humbug at one point. I was dying 🤣 2d

melissajayne @lil1inblue 😂 2d

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BarbaraJean

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

“If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard.“

😂🤣 These opening paragraphs are 💯

#HashtagBrigade @BarkingMadRead

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BookishMarginalia

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Hedging my bets — I‘m very much a mood reader, and when I felt like reading another chapter. I seized the day!

#HashtagBrigade #Shirley #themill #waggons #hardtruthsbyauthor

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BookishMarginalia

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

And we now know everything we need to know about landlady Mrs. Gale and the “gentlemanly” curate… 6% in, in the first chapter 🤣

#HashtagBrigade #MrsGale #MrMalone #odiousyoungmen

dabbe 🤩🤣🤩 2d

tpixie Great quote! 2d

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