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Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

Ch 26: did not see that coming #butfirst #separatebeds ⁉️ #anyway #thedocsavesmax #shewasNOTpregnant #shewasdying #whatanevilbitch #karma #isaidwhatisaid #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @willaful @bookwormjillk @librarybelle @quietjenn @mcctrish @catlass007 @cuilin @dabbe @ruthiella @indoordame @peanutnine @kwmg40 @5feet.of.fury @roary47 @julieclair 3w

BarkingMadRead @thebookhippie @clare-dragonfly @aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @thearomaofbooks @kao @crinoline_laphroaig @elizamarie @daena @graciouswarriorprincess 3w

TheBookHippie But did they push the beds together on Saturday nights? #couldnthelpmyself #alsowhewevilbitch #seebeckylooksbetterallthetimefromvanityfair 3w

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BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie 🤣🤣🤣 3w

Clare-Dragonfly I was thinking of I Love Lucy too! 😂 3w

TheAromaofBooks So was Rebecca's intent to GOAD Maxim into murdering her ON PURPOSE??? Also, side note, I'm just not sure what I would do if my husband confessed to killing his first wife, no matter how terrible she was. I'm not confident I would be as “obviously I love you and will stay with you“ as our narrator is! 😂 3w

kwmg40 @TheAromaofBooks I would have trouble with that too! 3w

kwmg40 The doctor offered them cigarettes and sherry! What doctor would do that these days? It was a different time! 3w

Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks yeah, I don‘t think that would have the same effect on me as it had on Jan. 2w

peanutnine @TheAromaofBooks yeah it seemed like Rebecca's way of taking him down with her, not realizing he would get away with it 2w

peanutnine The narrator is so desperate to be loved that she'll overlook some HUGE red flags. She's so worried about what others think of her, she can't imagine leaving him even for a good reason 2w

IndoorDame Totally agree about both of them! If Rebecca wants to off herself, go for it, but suicide by proxy totally makes her an #evilbitch And Jan staying with her husband who‘s perfect except for the whole I‘m a murderer thing is just nuts, like I‘m worried the girl has no basic self preservational instincts! 2w

5feet.of.fury I was so surprised by the doctor‘s report. What the heck? But, it gives everyone a good reason to believe the suicide… 2w

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Yes to everything you said! Rebecca is evil and Jan is not a great decision-maker. 😂 2w

Roary47 Big reveals! 2w

ElizaMarie Wow. So… Suicide by proxy!? Makes sense. Rebecca seems like a “if I am not happy nobody can be happy” type of person. #Vile 2w

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BarkingMadRead

Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

Ch 4: and now we know what happened to Rebecca #butfirst #hoppyissick #ummmmmm #whatdowecallthenarrator #suggestionsplease #asiwassaying #narratorisfreefortheday #awkardlunchwithmax #awkwardcarridewithmax #almostsuicidewithmax⁉️ #yikes #howhetalksaboutmanderleythough #staytuned #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @willaful @bookwormjillk @librarybelle @quietjenn @mcctrish @catlass007 @cuilin @dabbe @ruthiella @indoordame @peanutnine @kwmg40 @5feet.of.fury @roary47 @julieclair
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IndoorDame The intro to my copy points out that she is only ever “the second Mrs de Winter” (and it has some very pointed things to say about that 😂) but that‘s quite a mouthful so I think she‘s gonna need a nickname 1mo

BarkingMadRead @thebookhippie @clare-dragonfly @aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @thearomaofbooks @kao @crinoline_laphroaig @elizamarie @daena @graciouswarriorprincess 1mo

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BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame I totally agree. We have to call her something 🤷🏻‍♀️ poor thing never has a name, although we know it‘s a pretty one and also unique. Super helpful. 1mo

IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead I‘ve often wondered what constitutes a “unique” name for a white woman in England in the 30s 1mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame probably something so chill now 1mo

Ruthiella Her name is Jan Brady, forever doomed to be overshadowed by Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! I mean, Rebecca. 1mo

IndoorDame @Ruthiella 👏👏👏 Sold! call her Jan 🤣 (edited) 1mo

Ruthiella Also, it‘s so awkward when your first date is an attempted murder/suicide! 😱😆 1mo

CatLass007 @Ruthiella You have a wicked sense of humor! I like that in a person. 1mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 🤣☠️🤣☠️ 1mo

BarkingMadRead Omg @Ruthiella #janbrady FTW 1mo

Bookwormjillk Jan 😂 🏈 1mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella Jan is perfect! 1mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig I need to find a book about gardens in DDuM books. "The daffodils were in bloom, stirring in the evening breeze, golden heads cupped upon lean stalks, and however many you might pick there would be no thinning of the ranks, they were massed like an army, shoulder to shoulder. On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like pallid snowdrops.⬇️ 1mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig The primrose was more vulgar, a homely pleasant creature who appeared in every cranny like a weed. Too early yet for bluebells, their heads were still hidden beneath last year‘s leaves, but when they came, dwarfing the more humble violet, they choked the very bracken in the woods, and with their color made a challenge to the sky....People who plucked bluebells from the woods were vandals; he had forbidden it at Manderley." 1mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig So many flowers in this Chapter. I highlighted so many. 1mo

Roary47 @Ruthiella I love it! Jan is who I will imagine her to be. Plus we don‘t know her actual age either. Are they on a date showing she‘s older than a child? 1mo

BarkingMadRead @Roary47 I get the idea that she‘s an adult, but maybe a bit younger than Max 1mo

Ruthiella @Roary47 I am reading a bit ahead. I think in chapter five it‘s confirmed she is 21. 👍 But Maxim is “old enough to be her father”, so 35 to 40 years old, I imagine. 🤔 1mo

Clare-Dragonfly @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, the descriptions are so vivid and wonderful! I can see the flowers so clearly! 1mo

Bookwormjillk These chapters are long but they don‘t feel like it. 1mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree! 1mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Crinoline_Laphroaig These descriptions are so vivid! 1mo

julieclair I am really appreciating du Maurier‘s beautifully descriptive prose this time around. I don‘t remember noticing it as much the first time I read this. 1mo

ElizaMarie I agree with “Jan“ as her name for now... But wouldn't it be wild if her name is Daphne? I mean, if I were an author, maybe I would name a character after myself and then say how beautiful the name is repeatedly. 1mo

BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie that‘s a brilliant point! 1mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Oh, my nose! Oh,my nose! 😂😂😂 1mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk As opposed to our last book! #oy 😂🤗🤩 1mo

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BarkingMadRead

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ch 9.7: he had the money all along?!? #idunnoaboutthis #andnowforthewitnesses #butfirst #teatime #thebros #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 2mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 2mo

mcctrish “Gentlemen… that money … was my own…. or rather not my own, but stolen, stolen by me…and I had it on me.” Honest to god Mitya, can you hear yourself talk?! Bruh, you are not sane! 2mo

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Bookwormjillk I wish the book had just started with the murder. 2mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Amen! (religious word intended!) Did we need all the monastery stuff? 🤩😂😃 2mo

BarkingMadRead @dabbe it better all tie together in the end or I‘m gonna lose my 💩 2mo

dabbe @mcctrish I bet he wishes he wasn't such a braggart either. I have 3000 rubles (when I really only have 1500). C'mon Mitya, what is it? #iamsoconfused 😳 2mo

Ruthiella Dmitry is totally credible…totally. It‘s not stealing if you mean to give 1/2 of it back. 🙄 2mo

dabbe @BarkingMadRead I'll join you! 🤩 2mo

mcctrish @dabbe he needs to stop talking 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2mo

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk ✊🏻 2mo

mcctrish @Ruthiella possession is 9/10s of the law #hehadthemoneythemoneywashis 2mo

dabbe @mcctrish At least it's somewhat entertaining--unlike good ol' Ivan. 😂 2mo

mcctrish @dabbe it is 100 times more enjoyable to read Mitya 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2mo

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BarkingMadRead

A Passage to India | E. M. Forster

Ch 28-29: Quested finds her quest #butfirst #ronnydumpsher #questedandfieldingbecomefriends #timeforhertosailhome #antonytriestobribeher #amateur #peaceoutmydude #amissionaryhelpsherfindherquest #timetofindmrsmooreskids #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @catlass007 @daisey @deblovestoread @bookwormjillk @willaful @ruthiella @indoordame @librarybelle @dabbe @cuilin @annr @mcctrish @peanutnine @thearomaofbooks @bklover @morr_books 8mo

Ruthiella I have to say Adela got on my last nerve from the start. 8mo

Morr_Books Am I the only one surprised that they didn't ship Adela back to England immediately? Maybe that was the first available boat? 8mo

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Bookwormjillk @Morr_Books yes that was weird. Must have been the weather. 8mo

jenniferw88 @Ruthiella I knew what was coming from the start as it's a re-read - I so wanted my first hashtag about Adela to be #ihateadela, but wanted everyone to discover her toxicity for themselves. 8mo

willaful Adela is kind of a perfect Nice White Lady stereotype isn't she. Not because she's malicious, but way too much in her fee fees without noticing what she's doing to others. (edited) 8mo

dabbe @jenniferw88 And I might be dense here, but WHY oh WHY did she blame Aziz in the first place? What was her motive? Will we ever know? I'm having a difficult time understanding her and pretty much everyone else's actions in the story. An awkward read for me at best. 8mo

Daisey @dabbe I completely get the confusion here. When she‘s talking about the incident at one point she can‘t even clearly say whether anything really happened at all, so why blame someone? I really want more specific answers than the British are colonizers and therefore horrible people. 8mo

Ruthiella @jenniferw88 Now we can start a club! #Ihateadela 😂 8mo

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BarkingMadRead

Vanity Fair | William Thackeray

Ch 17-18: today‘s photo is the elephant for sale 🐘 #anothercliffhanger #butfirst #beckywatchesdobbinbuyapiano #hesendsittopooremmy #georgeisapig 🐷 #hedoesntdeserveemmy #dobbindefendsher #hefearsemmyisdying #thatcliffhangerthough #runemmyrun #hedoesntdeserveyou #haveimentionedhedoesntderserveyou #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @indoordame @morr_books @cuilin @mcctrish @thebookhippie @allylu @bookwormjillk @julieclair @ruthiella @deblovestoread @eeclayton @dabbe @willaful @rubyslippersreads @librarybelle @covertocovergirl @bklover @riveted_reader_melissa @jamiearc @kwmg40 @thearomaofbooks @daisey @samanne @ann_reads @wordslinger42 9mo

AnnR Poor Dobbin. Maybe he is actually the hero of the story. 9mo

Cuilin Papa Osbourne is not going to happy! 9mo

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BarkingMadRead @Ann_Reads he certainly is at the moment #nogooddeedgoesunpunished 9mo

TheBookHippie Poor thing …. 9mo

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin neither will George when reality sets in! 9mo

mcctrish @Ann_Reads #dobbinismyhero #georgesucks papa osbourne is such an a-hole that I‘d be thrilled about George going behind his back with Amelia if only #georgewasntapig 9mo

dabbe George is worse than Cecil from A ROOM WITH A VIEW--if that is even possible. 🤬 #teamdobbinandemmy 9mo

willaful @mctrish Word!

I thought the psychology in these chapters was really well drawn. Cognitive dissonance 100+ years before it was defined. 9mo

Bookwormjillk These chapters are like blah blah blah Napoleon blah then bam! 9mo

Bookwormjillk Was the elephant picture of Jos? I was confused. 9mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I feel like it was hinted but never said that it was Jos 9mo

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I‘m going to assume it was Jos then 🤣 9mo

Cuilin @BarkingMadRead true, though methinks he‘ll find distractions. 🙄 9mo

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣 9mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤣😳😅 9mo

TheAromaofBooks I'm so scared Amelia is going to throw herself away on jerk-face George!!! But Becky is living the exact life I thought she would - she's got her man completely wrapped around her finger! 😂 9mo

rubyslippersreads @TheAromaofBooks But I‘m sure she‘s kicking herself that she didn‘t hold out for his father. 😂 9mo

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BarkingMadRead

A Room with a View | E.M. Forster

Chapter 15: lavish publishes under a pen name…. #anotherkiss #butfirst #ceciliaapretentiousass #ihatehim #GEORGE #evenLucydislikesCecil #didimentionthekiss #kisssssssss #GEORGE #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @librarybelle @dabbe @thebookhippie @mcctrish @crinoline_laphroaig @debinhawaii @morr_books @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @ruthiella @bklover @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @cuilin @peanutnine @julieclair @ravenlee @indoordame @allylu @clare-dragonfly @rubyslippersreads 10mo

Ruthiella OMG, the second kiss. 🥰 I had forgotten it. 10mo

Cuilin When it gets a little autobiographical “Even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help.” Oh Forster 😔 10mo

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Cuilin Also apparently the Weald is beautiful or is it George? 10mo

mcctrish @Cuilin 🤣🤣 George is getting quite forward with his kiss stealing ( is Miss Bartlett acting all nuts because she‘s already read this bodice ripper of Miss Lavish‘s ?) (edited) 10mo

julieclair George is so bold! The kiss! 😍 #DitchCecil 10mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish BODICE RIPPER 💀 10mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin 😝 and need help 😵‍💫😵‍💫 10mo

mcctrish @TheBookHippie it doesn‘t take much for Charlotte 🤣🤣 10mo

TheBookHippie It‘s very nice of you to put up a pic of my hair style in 1993 😅 10mo

TheBookHippie The kiss stealing is life. 10mo

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin I think it‘s George 😍 10mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish it is the exact phrasing my mind was hunting for while reading!!! 10mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig That hair!😍 10mo

Cuilin @mcctrish Charlotte knows!! 10mo

Cuilin @TheBookHippie He was gay and had lovers but of course couldn‘t be very public about it. “ unexplained desires” I find it interesting when self disclosure finds an outlet or slips in a novel. 10mo

Clare-Dragonfly Cecil is insufferable. @Cuilin Very interesting, I didn‘t know that! 10mo

dabbe Oh, these characters and their drama! I love it! 🤩🤣😀 10mo

Bklover @Cuilin I didn‘t know that! 10mo

Bklover George is becoming quite the kisser! 10mo

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SconsinBookyBadger

#GIRLBOSS | Sophia Amoruso

Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.
#toberead #butfirst #netflixbinge

Rachel.Rencher I have this book coming from Amazon 👐 7y

SconsinBookyBadger @Rachel.Rencher Thrift store find today. Hopefully it won't linger too long on my tbr list. 📚 7y

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