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Ch 12: so much #blahblahblah before we get to #thewarofthegleggs #mrglegggivingsirjohnvibes #mrsgleggblameshimfornotdefendingher #mrgleggismadthatsheaskedforhermoneyback #shedecidestolettullykeepit #fornow #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @librarybelle @bookwormjillk @cuilin @mcctrish @deblovestoread @dabbe @julieclair @ruthiella @clare-dragonfly @thearomaofbooks @daisey @quietjenn @morr_books @leftcoastzen @kwmg40 @alldebooks @eeclayton @sparklemn @elizamarie @kao @jenlovesjt47 2w

Bookwormjillk 4% though 2w

Ruthiella I enjoyed the story of St. Ogg. 2w

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mcctrish Hell hath no fury! #diningalonewithhergruel #matchmadeinheaventhesetwo #gleggfindingsignsinthegarden 🤦🏻‍♀️ (edited) 2w

mcctrish @Ruthiella me too 2w

dabbe The water motif again ... crossing the Floss and making it this time and not drowning. Wonder if this story will be important later. 2w

Leftcoastzen I liked the story of St. Ogg , #GleggDrama 2w

Clare-Dragonfly I was reading this in the car on a gray rainy day and it put me to sleep 😴 2w

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 3.11: so much thithering going on #thatstotallyaword #thitherhere #thitherthere #boatingaround #blahblahblah #alongcomesastorm #washesemilyandcompanyashore #blanchesfaminvitesthemin #ofcoursethecreeperknowsthecount #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @indoordame @bookwormjillk @mcctrish @thebookhippie @dabbe
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mcctrish At least this whole chunk has a point now #godblessuseveryone 5mo

BarkingMadRead @elizamarie @quietjenn @jewright @larkken @thearomaofbooks @rubyslippersreads @anishainkspill @eeclayton @alldebooks @elizamarie @peanutnine @bklover
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I was so worried we would never find out 🤣 5mo

Bookwormjillk I'm just so glad Emily appeared and we didn't have a whole new castle story. 5mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk that would have been devastating 🤣 5mo

mcctrish It really could have gone either way at this point 5mo

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk aaaarrrgggh, can you imagine?? 🫣😱 5mo

Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks yes I actually can that‘s why I was worried 😂 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly I‘m relieved that we made it back to this castle. I spent like 14 chapters wondering when Emily was going to figure out that Udolpho was the creepy castle she saw before. Then I realized it was in Italy so it must be a different castle, and I wondered why they spent so much time being aware of that creepy castle! I also realized that the convent Blanche lived in must be a different one. I think Radcliffe has too many settings! 🙄 5mo

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BarkingMadRead

Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Ch 4: ok that was a lot of very beautifully written #blahblahblah and then 💥 #gunshot #butfirst #valancourtsaysgoodbye #emilyandpopstravelon #untiltheyareaccosted #butarethey 💥 #popsshootsvalancourt #ooooops #Vmissedpops #orsohesays #ithinkhemissedemily #hmmmmmm #ishethecreeper #theydecidetotraveltogether #popsistired #totheconventtheygo #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @indoordame @bookwormjillk @mcctrish @thebookhippie @dabbe
@zezeki @deblovestoread @librarybelle @kwmg40 @ruthiella @clare-dragonfly @catlass007 @cuilin 6mo

BarkingMadRead @elizamarie @quietjenn @jewright @larkken @thearomaofbooks @rubyslippersreads @anishainkspill @eeclayton @alldebooks @elizamarie @peanutnine @bklover
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Bookwormjillk That was weird. Sounds pretty though. 6mo

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mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it does sound pretty but so far they suck as travellers #itistheirfirstrodeo 6mo

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish totally 6mo

peanutnine I always find it odd that the prescription for illness in this time period is so often travel, like travel is the most exhausting thing I don't get it 6mo

Clare-Dragonfly I‘m surprised to see both monks and nuns in a convent. I thought they were always sex-segregated. 6mo

ElizaMarie @peanutnine yes!!!! I always have to take an extra day off after taking days off from vacation! 6mo

Bklover @peanutnine I agree! Not to mention wandering all over the place picking up germs! 6mo

Ruthiella @Clare-Dragonfly I think Radcliffe might have just made that up. 6mo

AnishaInkspill @BarkingMadRead thanks for the add 😍 these 6mo

AnishaInkspill @Clare-Dragonfly me too, I looked this up and found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_monastery , maybe Radcliffe means one of these double monastry ? 6mo

AllDebooks Lol, great hashtags 6mo

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BarkingMadRead

Dracula | Bram Stoker

Ch 20: Keanu does some research #theyfounddracshideouts #prigofthefirstwater 🤣#nowtheyplantodestroythem #minaisstillontheouts #stilltiredandpale #renfieldisbacktocausingtrouble #cliffhangerchapterending #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @indoordame @ruthiella @thebookhippie @seabreeze_reader @larkken @bookwormjillk @dabbe @deblovestoread @catlass007 @currentlyreadinginco @rubyslippersreads @librarybelle @mcctrish @clare-dragonfly @julieclair @thearomaofbooks @peanutnine @bklover @bookwormahn @graciouswarriorprincess @cuilin 6mo

mcctrish So much blah blah blah and then a bloodbath COME ON 6mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish I know 🤣🤣 I also used a #blahblahblah pic 6mo

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CatLass007 It was #blahblahblah, wasn‘t it. I don‘t know anything about Bram Stoker‘s opinions regarding women. But Jonathan, Van Helsing, and Lucy‘s former suitors don‘t seem to think much of Mina. They just want to “protect her fragile female sensibilities.” Is Stoker telling his readers that these men are all idiots because Mina has so much more to offer and they‘re not allowing her to make her own decisions? Also, they‘re idiots because they (cont)⬇️ 6mo

CatLass007 don‘t recognize that Mina‘s symptoms are the same as Lucy‘s. I know women had very few rights at that time in history and my perspective is that of a woman living in the early 21st Century. But, wow, these men all need to be smacked up side the head. 6mo

Clare-Dragonfly @CatLass007 Yup. They‘re all congratulating themselves over their great choice keeping Mina out of everything, while completely failing to notice her very suspicious symptoms! 6mo

CatLass007 I‘m doing a little googling to better understand Bram Stoker‘s views on women. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/scientia/article/view/705hickleberrypunch... 6mo

CatLass007 https://www.mytutor.co.uk/answers/6559/A-Level/English-Literature/How-do-Carter-... 6mo

CatLass007 https://study.com/academy/lesson/women-feminism-in-dracula.html 6mo

CatLass007 https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/scientia/article/download/705/663/2372 6mo

CatLass007 Okay, last one… https://castledracula.weebly.com/feminism.html#:~:text=Althou.... 6mo

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KAO

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

pan

I don‘t know if I have ever been more relieved to reach the last page of a novel! Truly, if it had not been for the dogged perseverance of @BarkingMadRead and others who offered hashtags that assured me I was not alone in this crazed wasteland of #blahblahblah, I would never—I repeat never—have finished this. Honestly, I enjoyed the last 300 pages more than the first 500–again, a sentence I hope never to write again. My expectations were high…

BarkingMadRead I think you are in good company with this 🤣 he should have just cut to the chase 🤣 13mo

KAO …and high expectations are sometimes the first hurdle for me to enjoy a book. I feel like I just didn‘t get what makes this an extraordinary book that deserves its reputation, and as I read rave reviews on GoodReads or other sites, I think I also just don‘t have solid context (Russian history, culture, literary traditions) to appreciate it. My loss, I guess. In any case, I was determined to finish this, and I thank you all in the group! 13mo

KAO Thanks too @Aimeesue for the remarkable portraits, chapter by chapter! 13mo

Ruthiella Well done! 👏👏👏 13mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 “Hurrah for Karamazov [and the ending of this monstrosity of a book!]!“ 13mo

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dabbe

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

so-so

Having gotten through MIDDLEMARCH, ANNA KARENINA--even WAR AND PEACE, I was never so happy to reach 100% on my Kindle. As a former high school English teacher, the one thing I stressed to students over and over when writing was to SHOW and not TELL. Oh, does this novel have too much telling. It's brilliant in parts and overall a compelling story, yet, all that remains in my head is #blahblahblah. Couldn't have finished without the #hashtagbrigade.

TheBookHippie Seriously the blah blah blah 😵‍💫 13mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😃🤗 13mo

Suet624 🤣🤣🤣 13mo

dabbe @Suet624 🤩😂🤗 13mo

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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 12.9: more of the same 🙄 #atleastheisdone #timeforthedefense #verylongwinded #blahblahblah #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 13mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 13mo

TheAromaofBooks I skimmed a LOT of this chapter. Haven't we heard all of this already!? 13mo

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AllDebooks Isn't this book over, already? Going round in circles 13mo

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks @AllDebooks it felt like a cruel joke 🤣🤣🤣 13mo

mcctrish “Reaching this point in his speech, IK, who had plainly opted for a strictly historical method of exposition..” bottom tier Bloom‘s taxonomy- repetition of story - FD doesn‘t think anymore is still with him #idontknowwhyweare 🤣🤣 13mo

Bookwormjillk I couldn‘t sleep at all last night until I pulled out #TheBros. This chapter > melatonin 13mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk I ended up taking a nap in the afternoon while doing the same thing! 🤩😂😘 13mo

TheBookHippie I had to finish 😵‍💫🤣🤯😳🤷🏻‍♀️😅🤦🏻‍♀️I cannot deal with this one more day. Or bring it into April 😅🤣🤣🤣 13mo

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BarkingMadRead

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

ch 12.8: this guy is irritating me! #ishethelawyerorawitness #blahblahblah #somanytheories #solittletime #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

Librarybelle I love how he just keeps going and going and going…if there was a word count need, I‘m fairly sure Dostoevsky hit it about 300 pages ago. 😂 13mo

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BarkingMadRead @Librarybelle so.many.words. 13mo

Bookwormjillk Blah blah blah 13mo

TheBookHippie Charlie Brown teacher speech … wonk wonkwa wonk wonkwa 13mo

dabbe The dude is definitely in love with his own voice and oratory skills. Yowza! 🙄 13mo

mcctrish Again, a chapter just to retell the whole book pertaining to one character. WHY?! SO MUCH BLAH BLAH BLAH ( it‘s cuz no one else in the history of this book actually read all the fucking words like us - we are being punished) 13mo

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Aimeesue

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

B12C6

Ippolit Kirillovich began his speech for the prosecution feeling chill and fever by turns in all his body. He later described it thus. He considered this speech the chef d‘oeuvre of his entire life, his swansong. To be sure, nine months later he died of an acute consumption, and had he had an early premonition of his end, he really would with justification have been able to compare himself to a swan singing its final song.

#MatryoshkaBros

dabbe #🦢song #icanteven #blahblahblah #perfection #diaoramadiva 🤩💚🤩 13mo

Ruthiella Having read now the entirety of that speech, I‘m not surprised he died soon after. It was EXHAUSTING! 😬 13mo

BarkingMadRead #blahblahblah FTW 13mo

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mcctrish @Ruthiella it almost killed us so ……. 🤣🤣 13mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish WORD. 😵‍💫😅🤪 13mo

Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 13mo

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