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Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe

Am I dating myself with this photo?
#anyway

4.17: yikes! #laurentiniwaswiththemarquis #heditchedherforthemarchioness #lalagotpissed #shetrickedtheMarquisintopoisoningtheMarchioness #whowasemilysauntie #didnotseethatcoming #lalaspunishmentwasconventlife #somanyparallels #yikesagain #staytuned #almostdone #hashtagbrigade

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Ruthiella Yes! But you are in good company ! 😂 4w

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Luke-XVX Jeanne Tripplehorn though, good lord !!! 4w

AllDebooks Lol 🤣 4w

dabbe @Luke-XVX I think it was Anne Archer, though they both look a LOT alike! 🤩 4w

Luke-XVX Haha I stand corrected! (Now I remember her from Patriot Games) 4w

mcctrish Todays chapter could have been the whole book #justsaying 4w

eeclayton At least now we know what was behind the veil. Even if it was a very WTF kinda explanation. 4w

Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish Right?! 😂 Also, who else was shocked that Laurentini is her first name?! I definitely thought it was a last name. 4w

mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly that‘s the mystery right there 🤣🤣🤣 4w

Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish The real mystery of Udolpho: Who Are These Udolpho People Who Name Their Kid Laurentini? 4w

TheAromaofBooks @mcctrish - LITERALLY what I was thinking when I was reading this - this is like a synopsis of all the actually interesting parts of this story that we weren't allowed to know about for some reason 😂 4w

peanutnine @TheAromaofBooks I definitely think it would have been more effective if we had learned what Emily read/saw earlier on and then revealed what it all meant at the end. Explaining it away immediately after revealing the mystery made it so much less shocking as a reader 4w

TheAromaofBooks @peanutnine - I totally agree!! I think if we knew what Emily did - that there was a half-decayed body in a hidden room - EVERYTHING would have been way creepier than just “something is there“ - and then in the end we get the big reveal about it not being a real body. As it is it was just kind of - it's a body! PSYCH! The end. lol 4w

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Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell

Ch 26: yikes #theshithashitthefan #butfirst #donneisgettingmarried #loveatfirstsight #asif #jemimaisalwayswatching #bradshawfindsoutaboutruth #thatseamstress 🙄 #ruthisthrownout #thurstonisgonnabeintrouble #jemimadefendsruth #didnotseethatcoming #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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Cuilin I‘ve so many questions? How did he find out? The seamstress or Donne? Is Donne wanting to marry Ruth? I can‘t understand hating/blaming a child because of their parents, it makes no sense to me. 5mo

mcctrish @Cuilin these are my thoughts too! Bradshaw wouldn‘t be going to the seamstress so who did she tell that it has made it to his ears ? The Donne marriage scenario, is that the backstory for marrying Ruth? And he told her tale so she‘d be in a pickle and have to marry him? But some people have seen her with the Bradshaw family so ?? (edited) 5mo

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mcctrish Also why are all the men so stupid 5mo

Cuilin @mcctrish I think you‘re right about Donne, he is going to try force Ruth‘s hand. I‘m hoping F is going to swoop in and rescue her and put them all to shame but I get the feeling this is not a happy ever after novel. 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly If Donne did tell Bradshaw, I‘m even more pissed off because he‘s fully blaming Ruth and not saying Donne is a bad person at all. I know it was the way of things, but it still makes me mad! I hope he gets some comeuppance for his bribery hypocrisy. 5mo

Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish Right? 😂😂😂😂 5mo

IndoorDame He said the whole town was talking, but my bet is still on Donne starting the rumor mill going not the seamstress. Men like that don‘t like being told no and rarely think through the consequences. Unless he doesn‘t care at all about the kid, and is fine ruining them both and betting she‘ll agree to be his mistress if he makes her life miserable enough. 5mo

mcctrish @IndoorDame there is no way Bellingshit isn‘t pissed off Ruth turned down his proposal and maybe if he‘d led with marriage instead of initially proposing to just pick up where they left off ( like WTF dude) 5mo

IndoorDame @mcctrish 💯😡 5mo

currentlyreadinginCO @Cuilin would be the best possibility but alas we will see 5mo

willaful We knew it was coming but it's not a relief it finally happened. :-( 5mo

dabbe Bradshaw‘s holier-than-thou sanctimonious crap after the bribery scene to get Donne elected is just 💩 without the smiley face. I am beyond enraged. 5mo

Bookwormjillk I am thinking it had to have been Donne. It was just too close to his marriage announcement. I‘m wondering if he‘s trying to ruin Ruth so he and new wife can take Leonard. 5mo

AllDebooks With the glee the seamstress showed in telling Jemima, I think it was her passing gossip onto her customers, and it spread like wildfire. Donne didn't need to tell her as she recognised Ruth from earlier. He's still an ass tho. 5mo

rubyslippersreads @AllDebooks I agree. I think the gossip has spread through the town. Maybe Mrs. B heard it and told Mr. B. (Or Mr. BS, as I like to call him.) 5mo

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Villette | Charlotte Bront�

Chapter 16: Lucy wakes up in a familiar room…… #whatjusthappened #didnotseethatcoming #thischangeseverything #ifeelsosilly #whosawthatcoming #mindblown #pemberlittens

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IndoorDame Definitely not me! I‘m shocked! 2y

Bookwormjillk Yeah, wow! After yesterday I was thinking of giving up but now I‘m glad I hung on! 2y

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RebelReader I sure didn‘t see that coming!!!😳 2y

peanutnine I did NOT see that coming! Why does everyone have so many names?? 2y

peanutnine Also I love how she knew all along but didn't inform us #rude 2y

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine so freaking rude 2y

Ruthiella Me either! More fuel to my pet peeve that ONE CAN SPOIL A CLASSIC! I don‘t care how long it has been since first published! 2y

AnneCecilie I didn‘t see that coming at all 😯 2y

suvata Whoa! She knew about Dr. John all along? Talk about an unreliable narrator. 2y

Bklover It didn‘t even occur to me that she knew all along! I thought she realized it when she saw his mom since she hadn‘t seen him for years. But that makes no sense does it. It‘s not been that many years since she saw him. Wow. That was a dirty trick. And does anyone else find it odd that Dr John or GB or whatever his name is conveniently rescues her AGAIN?! @peanutnine The multiple name thing makes me crazy. 🙄🙄 (edited) 2y

Clare-Dragonfly Right?! At first I was like “how did she not recognize him before?!” And then it turns out she did 😒 2y

KristiAhlers Yeah I did a total WHAAAA? And I totally agree the multiple name thing is insane. Unless it‘s a name for each of his personalities 🤣 2y

Daisey This was definitely a surprising chapter; not at all anything I was expecting! 2y

SamAnne This novel just turned Crazy Town! 2y

SamAnne Yeah, this novel might have jumped the shark for me…. 2y

BarkingMadRead @SamAnne 🤣🤣🤣🦈🦈🦈 2y

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