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Part One: Fantime, Book 2: The Fall, Chapter VIII: The Deep & the Dark

is this chapter a metaphor of
drowning in the sea 🟰 Jean Valjean‘s despair?

#READLESMIS

Ch. 45/46: Mrs. Dashwood and Brandon arrive just as Marianne is in the clear! Also, Brandon confessed his love for Marianne to Mrs. D. She shares the news with Elinor, singing his praises and claiming that she never thought much of that Willoughby (uh-huh). Soon they head home to Barton and Marianne gives Elinor a heartfelt apology for being such a rude, thoughtless bitch to everyone. It's actually a lovely moment of self-awareness- yay, growth!

Repost for @Librarybelle

In February, the #LiteraryCrew group will venture back in time this classic Bronte novel.

This #BuddyRead is read at your own pace. I will post periodic checkins throughout the month. Discussion will take place on February 28th!

Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.

@dabbe #ThreeListThursday

My three favorites and ones that I still read are.
1. Beowulf
2. Canterbury Tales
3. Don Quixote

This could have been a really interesting spiritual successor (at the time) to Homer, but this read more like Roman Empire propaganda than an original work.

Virgil does have *some* original ideas and portrayals of the characters and events in the overall story, but it still feels like you're better off reading the Iliad and the Odyssey.

“But people have grown better,” observed the bailiff.
“In what way?”
“Cleverer.”
“Cleverer, maybe, that‘s true, young man; but what‘s the use of that? What earthly good is cleverness to people on the brink of ruin? One can perish without cleverness. What‘s the good of cleverness to a huntsman if there is no game?”

From The Pipe. Written in 1887. Still relevant (or even more so) in 2025.

I guess many of you know there actually is a Digne that Napoleon marched through. #ReadLesMis

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

I've only read 10 on the list 😳

My favorites:

1) Emma
2) The Canterbury Tales
3) Beowulf

“True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do” 🤔 #ReadLesMis

Marianne's illness worsens and Brandon goes to fetch Mrs. D, when who shows up? King of the fuckboys himself, drunk off his ass and ready to make all sorts of excuses for his cruelty, which boils down to: "I've been in horrific debt for years and was always looking for a sugar mama! Besides, my rich aunt disowned me when I knocked up Eliza so I had to get that Miss Grey stack. Don't hate me!" Cue my eye rolls! Does anyone feel bad for this asshat?