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charl08
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This book should be subtitled 'and add them all to your wishlist.'

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OriginalCyn620
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
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Found this little Lego kit at a Lego con this summer. My baby girl helped me put it together, because she‘s our resident LEGO expert. A Christmas Carol is my absolute favorite holiday book!

#holidaycraft #wintergames2024 #holidaybookdragons #wintergames24

EmilyM I have this too!! 😁 11h
willaful super cute! 10h
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BarbaraBB
The Moustache | Emmanuel Carrere
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When a man shaves off his moustache, the people around him react as if the moustache had never been there, leaving the man in great confusion. Are his wife and friends fooling him? What starts out as a joke, quickly turns into something much darker. Are his friends plotting against him? What is illusion and reality?
An impactful little book about identity and a mental breakdown. A typical Emmanuel Carrère book.

? Lausanne, Switzerland

ChaoticMissAdventures This has been on my list! Glad to hear you enjoyed it! 14h
Gleefulreader Ooh - this sounds really good! 12h
Night_Reader Yes, great book. Can't wait to read more from this author! 10h
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Tamra I have this one TBR. Famous last words. 😆 9h
sarahbarnes This sounds really good! 7h
BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures He works very well for your French focus next year. All of the books I read by him were quite unique 7h
BarbaraBB @Night_Reader I‘ve loved everything I read by him so far. 7h
BarbaraBB @Gleefulreader @Tamra @sarahbarnes It‘s a short book and highly original! 7h
Cathythoughts I‘ve never come across him , stacking. 5h
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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 😱 15h
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AllDebooks Sorry, I should have been reading tonight's chapter but got distracted 😅 15h
Librarybelle Word count dedication! 15h
BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 15h
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! 😅 15h
BarkingMadRead But still. You had to do the search 🤷🏻‍♀️ 14h
AllDebooks @BarkingMadRead 😬 you got me 14h
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! 🤩 14h
mcctrish @dabbe The Bros was better ( never thought I‘d say that ) 14h
Bookwormjillk @mcctrish you know it‘s a bad book when #thebrosarebetter 14h
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 14h
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it‘s mind boggling 14h
Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 The Bros! Slightly less histrionic than The Mysteries of Udolfo! 11h
mcctrish @Ruthiella there was no crying 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 11h
Clare-Dragonfly Brilliant word counting 😂 11h
eeclayton Wow 😲 6h
AllDebooks @Clare-Dragonfly it's telling that I would rather do that than read the bloody thing. 😅 2h
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! 1h
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DieAReader
Frozen Woman | Annie Ernaux
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#WeekendReading #Weekendreads

📖🎧 I‘d love to finish these by EOD Sunday🤞🏻🤓

Andrew65 A good reading weekend ahead, enjoy it. ❤️🥰 15h
DieAReader @Andrew65 🤞🏻🥶weather is taking huge plunge tonight (-19C feels like -39C (🌡️-2F - feels like -20F) so, you can bet I‘ll be staying toasty warm inside☕️📚 14h
Andrew65 Ouch, stay wrapped up and warm. We‘re not as cold but a high wind storm all weekend so won‘t be going far either. 14h
DieAReader @Andrew65 🫂❤️‍🔥Same to you! 14h
CoverToCoverGirl Anywhere from 15-30 centimetres forecasted beginning late tonight into all day tomorrow. The bookstore will probably be closed tomorrow. 12h
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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 17h
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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) 14h
Clare-Dragonfly Something actually happened!!! @mcctrish I also thought V would turn out to be with them. 11h
peanutnine I was like oh now we finally get to hear what happened to Ludo! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Just kidding 9h
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Dilara
Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart | Betje Wolff, Aagje Deken
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Well I know what I want to read for #FoodandLit #Netherlands: the French translation of the tagged book. There was an article about the 2 female authors here: https://www.liberation.fr/culture/livres/elisabeth-wolff-et-agatha-deken-quatre-...
But it looks like the book's OCR isn't ready so I'd have to read the PDF of the 1787 print, and I'm not sure I'm ready for this😅
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

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