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1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

Hahahahhahaha anyone else on Team Zero 😆😆There were maybe two that I “read” in high school lit, which meant I actually just used CliffsNotes. I am very much not a classics kind of girl.
#TLT @dabbe @TheSpineView thanks for the tags!

ETA- I‘ve tried to read several like Austen and just really not cared for them.

Ruthiella Have you seen an Austen adaptation and liked it? Just curious, because I think that‘s also a great way to experience an author‘s work, even if it is an adaptation to a different medium. 8h

BethM @Ruthiella I have! I generally have enjoyed several of these as film adaptations. I just can‘t get through the written word. 8h

dabbe We'll be heading to contemporary lit, and that's where you're gonna soar! 😍 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

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MonicaLoves2Read

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I got 7%: 7 out of 100😂 Had it not been for my High School Jr and Sr English Teachers it would have only been 2 😂

Top 3:
The Scarlett Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of Usher

Last 2 HS

#TLT #Threelistthursday @dabbe

Texreader Thank heavens I read a couple in school, too! 9h

MonicaLoves2Read @Texreader 😂😂 I guess we each had teachers that thought we needed to read a couple of them 😂 9h

Texreader I only got 8 books. ☺️ 8h

dabbe @MonicaLoves2Read @Texreader Here's to getting out of the 1700s! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

MonicaLoves2Read @Texreader you did better than me 7h

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Read4life

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#TLT @dabbe

Only 19 😣. Hopefully that means my scores will just improve from here. 🤞🏻

CogsOfEncouragement 15 for me! 9h

BethM Umm I‘m team zero lol 9h

dabbe I'm thinking we'll all improve. Thank goodness we're out of the 1700s! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Between all of us, we're around 20-ish. Here's to improving! 😍 8h

dabbe @BethM You'll get higher score as we move forward year-wise. The 1700s was like 😳! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

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BkClubCare

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#TLT #ThreeListThursday #1001BooksToReadBeforeYouDie @dabbe

Besides the Austens, my fave on this list is Vanity Fair. Thought it was a hoot!🦉🌟 📚

dabbe I did, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

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lil1inblue

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I chose the poetry class over the lit class for this era in college. 🤣 Random thoughts:
💚 I was one of the only people in my class who loved Candide when we read it in high school. This still baffles me.
🩵 I saw the netflix series based on House of Usher, and it was so strange. I really want to read the story now.
💙 I hadn't heard of A Dream of Red Mansions before today, and now it's on my tbr.
#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

Ruthiella I read Candide in college for a French History class and loved it! 10h

dabbe “House of Usher“ is one of my faves of Poe. You'll love it! If you get a chance to see the campy movie by Roger Corman from the 1960s, that's a fun one, too. It stars Vincent Price as Roderick Usher. You can see it free on YouTube! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmEbH7mZ8Vk
Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

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jenniferw88

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

Thanks @dabbe for sharing!

I expected this to be higher with my MA in 18th century studies, but 27! And I'm not sure the Brontes and Dickens should be on this list - I think they are late 1800s authors.

#tlt #threelisthursdays

AmyG If not for Dickens and the Brontes I would have read maybe 2 books? 🤣 12h

dabbe The Brontes were early-mid 1800s (Charlotte died in 1855). Same with Dickens (he died in 1870). Next week's list will cover most of the 1800s. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

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dabbe

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
Well, this one oughta be fun! I'm such a sucker for book lists. 🤣
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1700s
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging Littens who played last week. 🤩

BkClubCare, DebinHawaii, peaKnit, melissajayne, Soubhiville, BarkingMadRead, tpixie, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Kshakal, CogsOfEncouragement, Susanita, Lynnsoprano, BethM, Bklover, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, TheLudicReader, jenniferw88, julesG, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, Eggs, Amor4Libros, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, MonicaLoves2Read, rwmg, CSeydel, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, Butterfinger, ChaoticMissAdventures, Cupcake12, lil1inblue, Lesliereadsalot, willaful, AnnCrystal, BooksandCoffee4Me

Librarybelle I got 16, but there are so many I‘m in the middle of but did not count because I did not finish them. Some I‘ve not heard of before and others are on my to read list. 😂 13h

BarkingMadRead 27 for me (I counted two that I‘m currently reading) 13h

lil1inblue Uh oh. This era does not bode well for me... 😂 13h

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BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, 22 only! Jane Austen saved me on this one. So many I‘d not heard of but look interesting! Remembered how much I loved Woman in White. Thanks for the tag @dabbe 💛 12h

CSeydel Just 11. Not bad for a STEM major, though, right? … right?? 12h

CSeydel Probably another 11 on my TBR. But most of them I hadn‘t heard of 😔 12h

Amor4Libros I got 1…Moby Dick! 🤣🤣 12h

dabbe @Librarybelle 🎯🩵🎯 Most from the 1700s, I'm like 😳! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

dabbe @BarkingMadRead Thank goodness for the #hashtagbrigade! We were able to count quite a few! (and I included MILL ON THE FLOSS since we will be finished soon). Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

dabbe @lil1inblue 🎯🩵🎯! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me #ditto! I adored WOMAN IN WHITE! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

dabbe @CSeydel R.I.G.H.T.! 🤣😍🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

dabbe @CSeydel 🎯🩵🎯! 12h

dabbe @Amor4Libros And I only read “Call me Ishmael“ and called it a day! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 12h

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Got 22, which is not too bad for a Lit major focusing on contemporary texts! 12h

dabbe @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards I think you'll kick some serious ass as we move forward in years! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🩵📚🩵 12h

willaful Only 20 for me! Would be a bit higher if I had participated in *all* the #HashtagBrigade reads. ;-) Nothing I especially want to read but certainly might if the brigade does them. :-) 11h

peaKnit I know face slaps are not allowed but @dabbe…I got 4 😂 thank gosh for Jane Austen. 11h

shortsarahrose I got 12, which is honestly better than I expected (thanks mostly to actually liking 19th century American lit - Melville, Hawthorne, Poe). Sorrows of Young Werther should count twice cause I read it in German 😆 (surprised that with three Goethe texts on the list, Faust wasn‘t one of them! I guess maybe because it‘s technically a play?) 11h

Bklover 18- thanks to #hashtagbrigade and Jane Austen. There are quite a few I hadn‘t even heard of! 11h

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 🥰💛🏷 11h

Bookwormjillk Lucky 13. Grateful for#PemberLittens and #HashtagBrigade 🤣 10h

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I definitely counted Mill on the Floss. We‘re almost done! 10h

Read4life Thanks for the tag!! 💙📚💙 10h

tpixie @Daisey 9h

ChaoticMissAdventures Oh! It is too bad they couldn't find a few more 😂 thanks for the tag! 9h

Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! I‘m going to get my book out before I do the survey as my memory was much better back then. 9h

Daisey @tpixie I went through and have read 39 (including currently reading Mill on the Floss). I‘ll have to watch for these the next few weeks. 8h

dabbe @willaful The #hashtagbrigade saved my sorry ass! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @peaKnit I think the only one I read from the 1700s was GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. The others I was like 😳. 🤣 We'll get better as the list moves forward a few years!
Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @shortsarahrose Yep, I think plays don't count, though they should. And you should count it twice! I read COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO in French, and I counted it twice. I needed all the help I could get! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @Bklover IKR? 1700s was like 😳!!! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @TheSpineView YW! 😍 8h

dabbe @Bookwormjillk IKR? Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

dabbe @Bookwormjillk I did, too! 🤣 8h

dabbe @Read4life YW! 😍 8h

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures 🤣😍🤣 8h

dabbe @Deblovestoread You have this book? How cool is that? I'm thinking of getting it! 😍 8h

dabbe @Daisey You beat my sorry butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 8h

AnnCrystal Thank You For The Tag 📚😉👍🏼💝. (edited) 8h

dabbe @AnnCrystal YW! 😍 8h

Lesliereadsalot Thanks for the tag but I can barely remember what I had for lunch let alone books from my far past! 🩷 8h

AnnCrystal Whispering again...👀...Zero!

I did watch many as movies, but it's been years.

1 - Carmilla. Long Time TBR book (I'm horrible, still need to read Dracula too).

Movies

2- North and South I saw one version of this many years ago and fell in love with the story

3- Orson Welles In Jane Eyre 💝💝💝.

📚💝. (edited) 7h

melissajayne 17/100 7h

rwmg 39 including 2 I DNF-ed (Clarissa and Tristam Shandy).
7h

Eggs 6 🙀🙄!!! 5h

julesG I might have read 13 books from that list. 4h

julesG @shortsarahrose I had similar thoughts about Goethe and was wondering why a few others were missing. Them being plays might be the reason. 4h

Amiable I don‘t even care about my score —the fact that I could check off “Clarissa” caused me to shout “YES!!” and pump my fist in celebration. 🎉 ☝🏼😀 2h

tpixie 12. It said the average was 18! 2h

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ShyBookOwl

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life | Anne Bogel

Getting ready to sell our house and the stager came by to give her professional advice, which included telling me I had too many books... she suggested removing most of the books from my BOOKshelves and replacing them with candles, plants, and stock photos. I'm not a violent person, but I was seeing red 😡😅

Sace Full bookshelves wold make me feel at home and therefore more inclined to like the house 😁 5d

Amiable I would be MORE inclined to be interested in a house with full bookshelves! 5d

Jari-chan There are people out there I seriously don't understand 🙈 5d

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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage At least they didn‘t tell you to reverse them to see the white pages side? 5d

tpixie Forbid you have BOOKS on your BOOKshelf. Obviously she‘s a non- reader! 5d

Tamra Ugh - don‘t! Honestly, nothing in the way of people‘s decorating or possessions in the 10 years we spent seriously looking at dozens of houses ever put me off. It was the structure itself, the nonmovable things that mattered. 5d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Tamra that is how I looked at houses too. But I think a vast majority of people just have zero imagination. They have shown that staging really works to bring in more for the seller. So silly, probably from all those non readers. 5d

Tamra @ChaoticMissAdventures 🫤Sad for them! 5d

jen_the_scribe They‘re buying the house, not the shelves (regardless of what‘s in them) lol 5d

llwheeler I got the same advice when we sold our house 6ish years ago. Packed up over half my books and “prettified“ the shelves as the agent wanted. It was kinda fun for those few weeks. And now all my shelves are happily overflowing again at this house 🙂 (I have my doubts that doing it gave us a faster or better offer though, but who knows) 5d

ShyBookOwl @llwheeler Haha! That's it. I can't imagine anyone saying, "idk about this house, the current owner has a lot of books." ? the lack of imagination is depressing 5d

ShyBookOwl @ChaoticMissAdventures @Tamra So true. I don't get it. But I think anyone who has that much trouble seeing past books is going to have a very difficult time choosing a house, anyways. It speaks more to them than my house lol 5d

ShyBookOwl @jen_the_scribe Exactly! Ridiculous. 5d

ShyBookOwl @tpixie Clearly! 5d

ShyBookOwl @Sace @Amiable Same!! 5d

ShyBookOwl @Jari-chan Me too 5d

ShyBookOwl @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage omg is that a thing?! 5d

Suet624 I‘m so annoyed by this suggestion. 5d

ShyBookOwl @Suet624 Right?! 4d

TheLudicReader Ridiculous! 4d

dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 😳 4d

Reggie lol why didn‘t she just finish it up with “oh, you‘re one of those too smart for their own good, girls.” Booooooo to the stager!!! 3d

ShyBookOwl @Reggie 🤣🤣🤣 3d

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