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BarkingMadRead
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Ok #hashtagbrigade I know we are still reading Udolpho, but it‘s time to start thinking about January! If you would like to be tagged for the next book, drop a comment below! Everyone is welcome to join in, just remember that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so read the chapter before my post each day!

rubyslippersreads I‘m really looking forward to this one. 12h
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mcctrish I‘m in ( off to track down a copy ) 12h
Cuilin I‘m in and have the same copy!! 12h
Librarybelle I have my copy and am ready to go! 12h
TheBookHippie Oh yes I‘m in. Off to find copy! 12h
BarkingMadRead 😍😍😍 12h
eeclayton Count me in! 🙋‍♀️ 12h
AllDebooks I have my copy and Richard Mabey's biography of her. Been sitting on my shelf for years. 11h
TheAromaofBooks Yes!! My copy is on the way!! Hopefully this one will have fewer people-in-walls than Udolpho 😂 11h
BarbaraJean Yes, please tag me! 11h
willaful This sounds like a better time! 10h
Ruthiella I‘m definitely in! Keep me tagged please. 😃 10h
dabbe Keep me tagged, please! 💙❄️💙 10h
BarkingMadRead 😍😍 9h
AnneCecilie I would love to be tagged 9h
Bookwormjillk This is a great sign that Udolpho is almost over 😂 I would like to be tagged please. (edited) 8h
quietjenn I failed miserably at Udolpho, but feel like I'll be better for Lark Rise ... 7h
Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes please! 6h
BarkingMadRead 😍😍😍 5h
JacqMac Yes, please! 5h
julieclair I‘m in! I found a copy on Everand. 4h
BarkingMadRead 😍😍😍 4h
mcctrish Chapters says they can‘t deliver this lovely version until January 17th 🤯 so I got it for my kindle for 99 cents 3h
kwmg40 I'll pass on this one as my January TBR list is already pretty huge, but I'll rejoin all of you in February. now
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Clare-Dragonfly Emily persists in thinking the Count is an honest, nice guy who really cares about her well-being as he repeatedly shoves his obsessed buddy in her face 🙄 13h
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mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly 🤣🤣🤣 13h
AllDebooks Oh, we are so close to the end. The book, sanity, who knows? 🥳 I'm struck by the difference in writing style between this and Frankenstein, considering there are just over 20 years between publications. Mary Shelley was still in her teens when she wrote it. 12h
eeclayton Not to defend the Count, but I have the impression that he's been friends with Du Pont for much longer than with Emily, so it kinda makes sense to me that he wants to promote his happiness. Which of course doesn't make him any less annoying from E's point of view. 12h
BarkingMadRead @eeclayton that‘s a very good point 12h
TheAromaofBooks @eeclayton - I also think the Count sees sweet, lonely Emily at a time when being a single woman was actually somewhat unsafe & knows that his young friend is an upstanding guy who loves her and would take good care of her (vs taking advantage of her and stealing all her money). Like it's annoying to E because she doesn't want to marry him, but lots of people married for convenience, so unless the Count forces the issue, I can't fault him too much 11h
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BarkingMadRead
The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk At least they didn‘t shoot this one 1d
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mcctrish How bright is Annette?! 1d
Clare-Dragonfly We finally get the story! Secret passages in the walls! 1d
Bklover I am behind! My oldest daughter has been in the hospital and I haven‘t read a word in a week. I will catch up, I hope! (She will be fine) 21h
TheAromaofBooks @Clare-Dragonfly - Apparently any and all ghosts are actually people in walls 😂 15h
TheAromaofBooks @Bklover - Hope you daughter is doing better!!! 15h
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks little did we know that this is actually a horror story 🤣 @Bklover I‘m so glad she will be ok, sending hugs! 14h
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BarkingMadRead
The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk I could have smacked Theresa today 2d
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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk in her defense, Emily won‘t tell her anything 🙄 these people need to learn to communicate 2d
kwmg40 I loved Teresa's snide comments about rich people! 😂 2d
mcctrish I mean Theresa isn‘t wrong 2d
Clare-Dragonfly I was really hoping Theresa would ask for an explanation, Emily would give one, and V would go “wait that‘s not accurate!” We only have a few chapters left, guys, get it together! 2d
peanutnine @Clare-Dragonfly 💯💯 2d
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mcctrish
The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe
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Ruthiella 😂😂😂 2d
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AllDebooks
The mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bonamy Dobre
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I'm currently participating in the final #hashtagbrigade #buddyread of the year. 10ish chapters left, and I just don't care anymore. I've never read a book with more loose ends, dead ends, and 'we won't talk about that' plot devices in my life. Thank goodness for @BarkingMadRead keeping us sane and the humour flowing. Otherwise, I would have bailed around chapter 10!
FYI, I got bored and did a word count. 🙄😅
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AllDebooks Word count results - Hither 158; Thither -53; Whither - 58; Crying + cry - 36; Weeping + weep + wept - 176; Fainting + faint - 175 😱 3d
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AllDebooks Sorry, I should have been reading tonight's chapter but got distracted 😅 3d
Librarybelle Word count dedication! 3d
BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 3d
AllDebooks @Librarybelle @BarkingMadRead Just so you know, it was on Kindle. I didn't sit there with a book and highlighter. I do have a life! 😅 3d
BarkingMadRead But still. You had to do the search 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3d
AllDebooks @BarkingMadRead 😬 you got me 3d
dabbe I managed to get through THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV thanks to this group and @BarkingMadRead's hilarious posts and @Aimeesue's hysterical dioramas, but this one? I bailed at Book 2. And I had also tried to read it a few years ago. I just couldn't do it. Again. Writing that goes on and on an on and on with tears all over the place and too many descriptions and meandering everywhere ... bleh! I'll be up for the January read, though! 🤩 3d
mcctrish @dabbe The Bros was better ( never thought I‘d say that ) 3d
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish you know it‘s a bad book when #thebrosarebetter 3d
mcctrish @AllDebooks the fainting count surprises me, I must have fainted myself and missed then but all those ithers I have felt and I attribute them to the author‘s dithering 3d
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it‘s mind boggling 3d
Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 The Bros! Slightly less histrionic than The Mysteries of Udolfo! 3d
mcctrish @Ruthiella there was no crying 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3d
Clare-Dragonfly Brilliant word counting 😂 3d
eeclayton Wow 😲 3d
AllDebooks @Clare-Dragonfly it's telling that I would rather do that than read the bloody thing. 😅 3d
TheAromaofBooks It honestly seems like there should be more crying 😂 Maybe we should add “tears“ to the word count?? Poor Emily, it just seems like her eyes must be swollen shut all the time! 3d
dabbe @mcctrish Well, that makes me feel a wee bit better. And you even helped me through a few chapters, and I still couldn't get through it! 🤩😂🤩 2d
mcctrish @dabbe you‘ve honestly missed nothing cuz nothing ever happens 2d
mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks it‘s amazing she can see anything 2d
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Bookwormjillk Some stuff happened in this long chapter at least 3d
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mcctrish @Bookwormjillk I was just skimming along and then “wait what?! Ludo is here?!” Truthfully I thought for sure they were banditti but then I thought they were hunters and maybe V was with them (edited) 3d
Clare-Dragonfly Something actually happened!!! @mcctrish I also thought V would turn out to be with them. 3d
peanutnine I was like oh now we finally get to hear what happened to Ludo! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Just kidding 3d
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BarkingMadRead
Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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mcctrish So we are just supposed to forgive Valancourt‘s whoring around?! #boyswillbeboys? Just ugh! The Victorian novelist kills women for less 😡 4d
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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so frustrating! 4d
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish I do think the whole point of this book will be we‘re supposed to forgive Val and be happy for Em when she ends up with him. 4d
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk better a loser than being alone #amiright 4d
Clare-Dragonfly @mcctrish You‘d think she would have learned from her aunt that a loser is NOT better than being alone! 4d
Clare-Dragonfly Raise your hand if you didn‘t know it was Valancourt helping Theresa the moment she said she couldn‘t say who it was 🤛🏻 4d
BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly I was torn between him and the creeper, it could have gone either way I guess 🤣 I also half wonder if it was the creeper that got shot as well 🤣 4d
mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly you‘d think 🤔 😝 4d
mcctrish Ooo @BarkingMadRead maybe the creeper was shot saving Val once again 4d
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