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DEBBIE & JACK. What is this unnecessary and ENRAGING relationship I have to hear about between y'all (constantly) when you're not even the main characters and it detracts from the actual plot?? I get it. Jack is an alcoholic insecure POS. And Debbie.. Debbie has no backbone or was manipulated to the point she deserves this because she ain't leaving nor listening to reason. #ugh #rant

reading.rainb0w Like... it's LITERALLY Debbie's fault for getting Keri involved in this mess, and now she wants to act like Keri is in the wrong and she needs to be the "good wife and mom"... for her alcoholic husband, and stop talking to Keri completely (who is like her sister) for a whiskey obsessed insecure man who for some GODFORSAKEN reason has manipulated her into thinking he would be a better guardian and could get full custody of the kids over her. #dumb 4mo

reading.rainb0w Can we get a plot twist where Jack dies? Please? 70% through and holding onto hope 🤞🏽 4mo

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AllDebooks

World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing -- Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed | James Hoffman

#LitSolace #MidsummerSolace

Let's make Saturday a day for coffee and chats. Join in our #SaturdayChatterday event. Grab a drink and start chatting.
☕️ Are you having a good weekend?
☕️ What are you up to today?
☕️ Where are you?
☕️ What are your plans for next week?
☕️ Any recommendations - books, places, films/tv shows etc?

Have a great day 🌞

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

Librarybelle Good morning! I‘m very excited for the $5.00 bag sale at my favorite independent bookstore and plan to go today. It‘s a lovely sunny day in my part of PA, so a good day for a book sale! 5mo

kspenmoll Hello! It‘s a gorgeous morning in CT- blue skies, breeze- on my way to Brooklyn to see a Paul McCartney photo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Meeting a friend who lives there. There have been protests pro Gaza so we will see what transpires today. Living history. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/paul-mccartney (edited) 5mo

kspenmoll @Librarybelle What fun! Enjoy the bookstore!📚📚 5mo

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AllDebooks @Librarybelle sounds fun, enjoy x 5mo

AllDebooks @kspenmoll oooh that looks a good exhibition. Have a great day with your friend. Living history indeed, stay safe x 5mo

AllDebooks I've got rained off gardening. It is so cold here in Derbyshire. I've snuggled up with list making of garden jobs and our #buddyread

Prodigal Summer

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TheBookHippie @Librarybelle ooooo FUN!!!! 5mo

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll HOW LOVELY 5mo

TheBookHippie Current have two loaves of bread in the oven. 👀 @dabbe …. Laundry and sitting on the patio for today it‘s been a flare week so I need to behave. 🫣 5mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie Is it in the 60s-70s? I hope so, and I hope you relax on your patio and rejuvenate yourself! 💚💙💚 We're hibernating inside and also having a relaxing day of reading. 5mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe NO it‘s 80 WTH 🫣😵‍💫😝 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ so… I‘m inside until the supper hour I guess… 😩 5mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 80 with humidity is like 100 here. #ugh! 5mo

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie flare-ups are so frustrating. Wishing you a speedy recovery. I bet your home smells lovely, nothing like freshly baked bread x 5mo

AllDebooks @dabbe it's easy to forget how blissful a day of reading truly is. x 5mo

dabbe @AllDebooks #truth 🤩 5mo

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#WhatsNewWednesday
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDieDue @Read4Life (thanks for the tag! 😘)

Been on the phone all morning and online dealing with banking issues. Our bank account had fraudulent activity, so we had to close that account and open a new one and change everything. I have a headache the size of Texas. Why is signing in such a pain these days? P/W's are no longer good enough; they have to text for codes, too. #ugh Time for happy hour.

Mimi28 My mom went through something like that in September. I know it‘s a pain 😞it will get better 🤗🫶🏽🩷🫶🏽😊😉 7mo

Librarybelle Oh my! You deserve a relaxing evening! 7mo

monkeygirlsmama Good luck! That sucks. 7mo

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TheBookgeekFrau Oh that really sucks 😖 My happy hour soothe you 🍻🥂 7mo

dabbe @Mimi28 💚💙💚 7mo

dabbe @Librarybelle 💚💙💚 P.S. Letter on its way! 7mo

dabbe @monkeygirlsmama #suckoramaindeed 🤩😃😍 7mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau 💚💙💚 7mo

random_michelle I can actually answer that question #ITgeek but I know that you don't want answers, you just want to vent. Which I totally understand. But if it helps, there are good reasons for it. And it IS a giant PITA.

❄ 🐱 7mo

dabbe @random_michelle You were right. It was a rhetorical question intended to vent sarcastically. And Litsy shouldn't be the place for negativity. Thanks for helping me to see that and for sympathizing. 💚💙💚 7mo

Librarybelle Yay! I‘ll watch for it! 7mo

ShelleyBooksie Boo - totally a no fun morning. Glad you got it sorted ♡ 7mo

random_michelle @dabbe Nah! It's not negativity! One of the first things I learned in IT support is sometimes they just needed to vent, & once they got that out the problem solving went easier.

It's hard to move past frustration when it's at the front of your mind. You just gotta clear the decks before you can move on.

& I also know that sometimes knowing there is a REASON for why something is a PITA, helps. It feels less like an act of god or punishment! :) 7mo

AnnCrystal Scary and tedious 🫂💝. (edited) 7mo

PaperbackPirate 💙 7mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m so sorry!!! Thieves 🤬😡 7mo

dabbe @ShelleyBooksie 💚💙💚 7mo

dabbe @random_michelle You made my day much better. 💚💙💚 7mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal Two excellent words! 💚💙💚 7mo

dabbe @PaperbackPirate 💚💙💚 7mo

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💚💙💚 7mo

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BarkingMadRead

The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Unabridged Edition): A Philosophical Novel by the Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 11.3: Liza has lost her damn mind #whatdidijustread #pineapplecompote #surprisinglyfewpics #anyway #lizaisoffherrocker #burndownthehousegirl #whatswithherandivan #poorA #whataclusterfuck #canwegototrialnowplease #itwillbethelastchapter #ugh #staytuned #thebros #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 8mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 8mo

Bookwormjillk That was a little too Silence of the Lambs for me. 8mo

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TheBookHippie https://www.bakedbyrachel.com/easy-pineapple-compote/ 8mo

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk 🫨 agreed. 8mo

TheAromaofBooks Seriously, is there a SINGLE character in this book who is not completely batshit insane?! What was the point of this chapter?!?!??? I'm starting to feel like *I* am the crazy one! 😂 8mo

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks it‘s all so crazy! My head is spinning 🤣 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk for real! 8mo

TheBookHippie @TheAromaofBooks was it winter in Russia and all they did was drink while writing ???? Or is this a test to see if we will read anything ?! 8mo

Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie @TheAromaofBooks it‘s a test 8mo

Aimeesue Gotta say, the audio version really made her sound delusional 8mo

mcctrish I read this and thought 1. Lise needs friends 2. I can hear True Blood‘s theme song Bad Things 🎶 I'm the kind to sit up in his room.
Heart sick an' eyes filled up with blue.
I don't know what you've done to me,
But I know this much is true:
I wanna do bad things with you. 🎶 3. FD is some serious anti-Semite 4. This book is insane can we be done
8mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish Omg my husband and I are watching this right now! And so so true 🤣 8mo

mcctrish @BarkingMadRead Lise gives off serious creepy disturbed song vibes 8mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish oh my word the antisemitism 😞 8mo

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I haven‘t felt so shocked or sickened very often - nonfiction for sure but fiction?! WTF 8mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish honestly I‘m finishing out of spite. 😵‍💫🫨😝 8mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie Me, too! I feel like we've been wading in the shit like Andy Dufresne in SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and we're in it until we get out of prison like Dmitri! 😃💩😱 8mo

dabbe Liza's mom was off her rocker, too. And she can't shut up! 🤐😂😃 8mo

Ruthiella @dabbe Exactly! The apple 🍎 did not fall far. 🦇 💩 🤪 (edited) 8mo

Ruthiella I wonder if William P. Blatty was inspired by this chapter? 🤔😈 8mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🎯 8mo

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Robotswithpersonality

An Impossible Impostor | Deanna Raybourn

pan

Ugh. 🙄 Once upon a time I was a teenager who had yet to be steeped in the well-worn, time-wasting, conflict-generating tropes of romance novels. In the decades since, I have had my fill. Which is why I was so profoundly annoyed to encounter them in a beloved historical mystery series with a romance subplot between characters I consider too smart to get caught up in this BULLSHIT. 1/3

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 My only consolation is that I don't see Raybourn getting away with pulling this crap in more than one book in her series. I will happily read the next to help wash this triteness out of my brain. 8mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 For those wishing to spring to the book's defense regarding the quality of the mystery/caper, know that I skimmed the second half and read the denouement because I could not stand watching these characters make these ridiculous decisions. Please, please let the next one not involve cliches I flee by skipping pages. 8mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! and your simple-yet-oh-so-poetic #ugh. #rollingtheeyesisgoodtoo
🤩🤩🤩 8mo

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Robotswithpersonality @dabbe Pretty sure they were the first things I said and did after I finished the book! 🤦🏼‍♂️ 8mo

julesG #MoreMehThanYeah? 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @julesG Meh indeed 8mo

julesG I marked the book a pick, but I had the same issues. Why did Raybourn make their affair into a YA? I hope the next one does better. (out today, btw) 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @julesG I still have to read 8, hopefully by the time I get to it, my library will have 9. 8mo

julesG Also, I let authors get away with a lot of tropes because I mostly listen to audiobooks at 2.0+ speed. And I really only listen to Veronica Speedwell novels. 8mo

julesG Now that you mention it, I can't remember much about book 8. The affair wasn't the strongest part of the story. 🤔 But it had a lot of Tiberius. I'd like to see more of Stoker's brothers. 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @julesG Happy to have a lil more Tiberius. 😉 8mo

rretzler I used to really look forward to this series, but they seem to have fallen off lately. Unfortunately, it appears that I read 8, but didn‘t write down my rating. I remember thinking that I wasn‘t sure if I wanted to preorder 9 though. 8mo

rretzler Apparently, I decided to give Raybourn another chance as I just opened my Kindle to see that A Grave Robbery has magically appeared this AM! 8mo

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Cuilin

Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia | Arthur Conan Doyle

@pageshifter @AnneCecilie @indoordame @librarybelle @theAromaOfBooks @Aimeesue @kelli7990 @5feet.of.fury @Read4Life @AnnR @mom2bugnbee @pageturner1 @eeclayton @erzascarletbookgasm @aroyse @dabbe @cuilin @mollyanna @Tineke @Larkken @StayCurious @kimrenee @alldebooks @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious

Librarybelle I think, in Sherlock‘s strange way, “the woman” is a compliment. She bested him. In the Victorian man‘s way of thinking, women don‘t do that. They‘re not cunning enough. They give away too many details. But, in the end, Irene Adler played Sherlock after she realized he played her. We also know Watson felt a need to protect Mary from the last book and fell for her “Victorian” charms. 8mo

Cuilin I agree it‘s a compliment to Adler, but at the cost of every other woman. Women shouldn‘t be so smart!!! 8mo

Aimeesue I don‘t think it‘s exactly that Sherlock doesn‘t think women are smart. More that Irene Adler has the intelligence PLUS the wealth and freedom of movement (due to her career,) daring and confidence to pull this off. Plus Sherlock doesn‘t think ANYONE, male or female, is as smart as he is. THE woman is almost a nickname for his nemesis. 8mo

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IndoorDame Yes, but a sort of backhanded compliment. I think he‘s saying it like a very polite curse. Most of the things Sherlock says about women during the case itself before he knows he‘s been tricked are blatantly derogatory. 8mo

CogsOfEncouragement @aimeesue I agree Holmes thinks no one is at his level, yet Irene bested him. That makes her The Woman. When he tells the king she is on a different level he definitely means Irene is the elevated one. Holmes makes no comment about being stunned that a woman in particular could outdo him. There also seems no ill judgement on her sex life or her wearing men‘s clothes to get around the city easier. 8mo

Bookwomble @Librarybelle I was going to say something pretty much the same as you 😊 8mo

Librarybelle @Bookwomble 😁 8mo

SpellboundReader I think that was as close to a compliment as one could expect from Holmes, especially when aimed at a woman. Holmes could just as easily fling his sarcasm at any men he did not respect. During the Victorian era, domesticity and pious devotion to church and family were considered to be the feminine ideal, maybe that is part of the reason why Doyle chose to make marriage a central theme in this story. It also helped create a more tidy ending. 8mo

dabbe @IndoorDame I wrote a couple down: 1. When talking about being the witness to Adler and Norton's wedding Holmes states that “Irene Adler, SPINSTER, [was married to] Godfrey Norton, BACHELOR.“ Nice, Doyle, nice.
2. From SH again: “Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.“ That makes ALL of us sound sneaky and sly. #ugh 8mo

IndoorDame @dabbe #ugh is right! 2 especially bothered me! That whole section about women not trusting men of business, because apparently we have no powers of judgment. 8mo

Aimeesue @dabbe Given the status of women and their roles in society at the time, probably an accurate description though, right? In order to to anything outside the “norm” women had to keep plans and secrets safe or risk the social consequences, of which there were many. Being secretive is valid straegy for achieving what you want when The Man‘s trying to keep you down. That SH doesn‘t recognize systemic sexism is pretty much of it‘s time though, yeah? (edited) 8mo

Cuilin @Aimeesue @dabbe @IndoorDame let‘s deny them any agency then complain when they‘re secretive. 🙄 and they can‘t see the connection, who‘s looking dumb now Doyle. 😂 8mo

kelli7990 “The woman”? What does that mean? I don‘t think I would want to be called that or talked about that way but men‘s attitudes towards women were different back then. I would want to be called by my name. 8mo

mom2bugnbee I realize that Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock isn't necessarily canon, but when he calls his Irene Adler "THE Woman", it is *definitely* a compliment. He thinks the world of her (in a romantic way? It's never entirely clear) & it's his way of saying that she is the standard to which he holds all women. 8mo

Cuilin @mom2bugnbee Agree, though not canon I still think Sherlock is complimenting Adler. He admires her. 8mo

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BarkingMadRead

The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 4.5: that was a lot #wheredoistart #ivanlovesKatlovesdmitry #whyyyyyaretheretwokats #cantwejustkeepcallingherCocaCola #ugh #anyway #katonlywantsdmitry #ivanonlywantskat #ivanisgoingtomoscow #alyoshaissoconfused #samealyoshasame #butatleastweknowwhytheboybithim #hardlyseemsfair #katpitchesafit #alyoshapeacesout #soarethedaysodourlives #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens #whewImadeit

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @currentlyreadinginco 9mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @peanutnine @bklover @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 9mo

mcctrish First, to quote Taylor Swift 🎶 you need to calm down, you‘re being too loud🎶 enough with the hysteria! Also me “ OMG, that‘s why the kid bit him” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 so satisfying, something making sense 9mo

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Ruthiella I thought it was hilarious when Mrs. Coca Cola tells Lise to stop shouting and then realizes SHE‘S the one shouting. 😆 What a madhouse! 9mo

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish was so happy when the finger biting episode was explained and I kind of knew who everyone was when they were explaining it 🤣 9mo

mcctrish @Ruthiella it‘s hard not to get swept away with the yelling 🤣🤣 9mo

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it‘s so not like FD to introduce someone and then proceed to talk about them in the next chapter 🤯 9mo

Ruthiella @mcctrish @Bookwormjillk Yeah, FD must have had a brief moment of lucidity when writing that chapter! 🤣 9mo

mcctrish @Ruthiella no 🍄🍄 9mo

currentlyreadinginCO @mcctrish 😂😂 9mo

Deblovestoread All the hysteria 😬 9mo

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BarkingMadRead

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman | Thomas Hardy

Thur: ch 51-52: Tess is homeless again #alechasofferedherfamilythecottage #shewontgo #noroomattheinn #alecishangingaround #coincidenceordesign #angelneedstocomehome #marianandizztrytohelp #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie
@indoordame @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @currentlyreadinginco @annr @eeclayton @deblovestoread @julieclair @ruthiella @jenniferw88 @dabbe @bklover @julieclair @cuilin @mcctrish @clare-dragonfly @quietjenn @jewright @daisey @covertocovergirl @rubyslippersreads @kao @currentlyreadinginco @kwmg40 12mo

Cuilin I love this read along but oh my gosh when does the misery end??? 12mo

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin #ipleadthefifth 12mo

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Bookwormjillk I have a feeling that note the girls wrote is going to backfire. 12mo

Librarybelle I have to prevent myself from getting the creepy crawly chills every time Alec pops up! Stalker!!!!! 12mo

Bookwormjillk Also I found this biography of Thomas Hardy included in my audible account. Was wondering how a man from the 1800s could write like a 2020‘s woman

Thomas Hardy

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Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk I think Hardy‘s sympathy just shows that calling out men for exploiting the vulnerable isn‘t a new or “woke” idea at all. It‘s been around for a long, long time. 12mo

Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella imagine that 😁 12mo

Clare-Dragonfly Such a creep! How much do you want to bet that Alec had something to do with the rooms being taken? 🤬 12mo

dabbe It seems as if Tess and her family are literally at their final, last straw. Of course they're going to stay with Alec (he left Tess to go talk to the mom), and now Angel is coming back. #whatcouldgowrong #ugh 12mo

Bklover Of course she is!! 12mo

currentlyreadinginCO I am interested in that as well, will be reading more about him @Bookwormjillk 12mo

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KateReadsYA

Untitled | Unknown

I'll start.....Favorite has to be found family!!!!! My least favorite is love triangles. What about you??

Jjaxn95 My favorite trope is hidden magic. It could be hidden from family/friends or hidden from the human world. My least favorite trope is whirlwind romance. Especially when someone in distress is focused on romantic feelings. 1y

RaeLovesToRead Least favourite is the Grumpy Pixie Dream Girl in fantasy fiction. Characteristics include being "sassy", good with a sword, hostile for no reason, and not-like-the-other-girls. Conventionally attractive, with hair that is either "flame" or "raven" (never blond). Starts off uninterested in male MC's penis. Has a backstory that "explains" her hostile attitude, usually revealed just before she starts to take an interest in said MC's penis. 1y

RaeLovesToRead Favourite... hmm ? "You're a wizard, Harry!" ? Love me some magic school. 1y

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Leftcoastzen I‘m with you on love triangles ,that‘s pretty tired . 1y

KateReadsYA @Jjaxn95 Gotta say you and I both for these tropes 🤗 love it. 1y

KateReadsYA @RaeLovesToRead OMG that's too funny 🤣 1y

dabbe I love the trope where the hero turns out to be a better person having gone through their quest. Least favorite (though back in the day I loved it) nowadays is the hate-to-love relationship. Think Harlequin romances. #ugh 😍 1y

KateReadsYA @dabbe Agreed! I also love when the villains are just misunderstood and become heros in their own ways. 1y

dabbe @KateReadsYA Love those ones, too! 🤩 1y

Cuilin I with @Dabbe on both, love a hero‘s inner journey and hate enemies to lovers. 1y

dabbe @Cuilin 💚🧡💚 1y

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