Had to look this up. Not a clue what this image could be though. 🤷♀️
“Inside the church, the beguines are scraping the benches to the walls. They‘ve placed a few stools before the altar, where a middle-aged woman is settling a lap harp on her knees. Beside her, another wets her lips and pipes a few notes on a recorder. Someone has a small drum. A fourth beguine enters with a clipped bang and shiver of tambourine.”
pickI enjoyed reading this novel. Having grown up in a small town with plain-spoken people who were similar to these characters. 4/5⭐️
pickA classic for the best book of August. I know Holden isn't the most intriguing of main characters, being a teenage misanthrope and all, and not much really happens, but I still enjoyed it.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
#wordoftheday
“Aleys glances to her right at a taciturn young woman, small as a swallow, with dark hair and black eyes and the sobriety of someone much older. Aleys thinks her name is Ida, but maybe-Ida‘s severe countenance forbids even a whispered question.”
#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @Catsandbooks 😍
And even with different wild cards, it still won out, @TheBookHippie. #missionaccomplished 💙🤍♥️
#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @CSeydel 🩶❄️🤍
Can you believe it, @TheBookHippie? Can you really? I'm a bit stunned if I do say so myself. Thank you for this monumental achievement--for me, anyway. 😘 Wonder if Proust will be the favorite next year? Somehow I doubt it, but we'll see. 🤣
#vivelafrance 💙🤍♥️
#12BooksOf2025 @TheEllieMo
Forgot to do yesterday's, so here's both:
July: WIVES AND DAUGHTERS w/ the #hashtagbrigade and @BarkingMadread ... I don't think I ever would have read this without them! 🥳
August: THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR: I definitely would not have read this if I hadn't been gifted this book by @TheLudicReader. Such a compelling read! 😍
repost for @TheBookHippie:
Schedule reminder #PROUST2026
Swann‘s Way for JAN & FEB
Reading 10 pages a day and @BookishMarginalia has a written schedule posted.
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repost for @BookishMarginalia:
I‘ve been planning my #Proust2026 reading for Jan/Feb. this is the #SwannsWaySchedule thus far!
(I am aiming for around 10 pages a day most (but not all) days, so the schedule takes that into account. And there are no chapters, because Proust! 🤪)
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
