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The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe

Ch 4.13: #emilyvisitstheresafornews #nobodyhasseenvalancourt #emilylosesherdamnmind #somuchcrying #knockknockknock #ofcourseitsvalancourt #sowemustfaint #itsamiracle #emilyisallforgiving #butwait #shepusheshimaway #soproud #theresaisconfused #valancourtisdevastated #emilypeacesout ✌️ #valancourtleavesheraring #nevertobeseenagain #maybe 🤷🏻‍♀️ #hashtagbrigade #ps #wtf #ithoughtwewouldgetludostale 🙄

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Bookwormjillk I could have smacked Theresa today 3d

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk in her defense, Emily won‘t tell her anything 🙄 these people need to learn to communicate 3d

kwmg40 I loved Teresa's snide comments about rich people! 😂 3d

mcctrish I mean Theresa isn‘t wrong 3d

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! 3d

peanutnine @Clare-Dragonfly 💯💯 2d

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BarkingMadRead

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ch 9.6: searching Ds clothes for the rest of the money #spoileralert #theydidntfindit #obsessedwiththeopendoor #DblamesSmerdy #hmmmmm #theyarentbuyingit #showmethemoney #Disabouttosaywherehegotit #staytuned #ps #dontsearchstripsearchmemes #thatsarabbitholeiwasnotpreparedfor #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 10mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 10mo

TheBookHippie #stripsearchmemes 💀 10mo

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Bookwormjillk Lol make sure you clear your cache 10mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I‘m waiting to see what shows up on Facebook now…. #bigbrotheriswatching 10mo

TheAromaofBooks My favorite part was all the peasants just hanging out to watch 😂 Slow news day, apparently 😆 10mo

mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks and making eye contact too 👀 debating whether I want to go down rabbit holes ?! 🤣🤣 10mo

TheAromaofBooks @mcctrish - I was honestly like, “man my mom always warned me about having clean undergarments on in case I get in a car wreck and go to the hospital where people will see it - but this sounds even worse!“ 😂 10mo

mcctrish @TheAromaofBooks 🤣🤣 might need to throw in don‘t forget to get a pedicure once in awhile 10mo

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks right?!!!? I hate when mom is right 🤣 10mo

5feet.of.fury This “must I take my shirt off” business is sending me 😂 mitya and his stinky socks 🧦 10mo

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BarkingMadRead

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ch 5.5: y‘all. #realtalk #iskimmedthisbitch #ifeelcheated #thatwasnopoem #ididnotlikeit #alyoshadidnteither #peaceoutivan #goonwithyourcrappyasspoem #ps #wheresdmitry #thebros #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @currentlyreadinginco 11mo

SamAnne I real hate the way Fyodor talks at the reader…insufferable rants on his deep, deep thoughts. 11mo

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BarkingMadRead @SamAnne for real! Ugh! 😩 11mo

IndoorDame I totally skimmed that “poem” too 😂😂😂 and I only figured out what it actually said when I got to Alyosha‘s summary 11mo

currentlyreadinginCO Absolutely 😂😂 @IndoorDame 11mo

mcctrish Absolute bullshit! Ivan will not be invited to the Tortured Poets Society after that fail! Also Fyodor needs to keep his chapters shorter, that is too much blah 11mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so much blah! 11mo

Bookwormjillk Totally skimmed it too. When I saw it was a 28 minute read I almost fell out of my chair. 11mo

Bookwormjillk The only good parts were when A interrupted to tell him his poem didn‘t make sense 11mo

Librarybelle I feel like I need a quick education on what was happening in Russia at this time. There is so much deep thought on some really heavy issues - I know it‘s a commentary on contemporary happenings, but me as a 21st century reader, and a non-Russian reader, is a little in the dark. I can only imagine how Crime and Punishment compares! 11mo

daena “Alyosha, who had listened to him all this time without saying anything, though towards the end, in a state of extreme agitation“. All I could think was same bro, same. #readtheroomivan (edited) 11mo

dabbe Me during this chapter: 😳 ... 😳 ... trying to read ... 😤 ... 😩 ... 😰 ... 🥱 ... 💤 ... wake up ... skim the mother-f---er ... 😎. In tomorrow's chapter, Ivan says this: “For so many years I was silent with the whole world and did not deign to speak, and suddenly I spewed out so much gibberish!“

Thanks, Ivan. Could you have said that BEFORE you started speaking in the last chapter? As @TheBookHippie would say, #oytothevey! 11mo

Cuilin So glad it wasn‘t written in verse, prose was bad enough!!!!! 😩 11mo

TheAromaofBooks I used to think I was bad at writing poetry... then I met Ivan 😂 11mo

Ruthiella Guys, according to my sources, this is the CRUX of the novel, the jewel in the crown, it‘s raison d‘etre…😂 11mo

currentlyreadinginCO This is the first chapter I've seen in my used edition that was heavily marked up from the previous owner! I wondered if they were reading this for school and if this may have been one of the most important chapters, and then I thought about doing some research, but then I got pulled into my actual job and forgot ... @Ruthiella 11mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella I saw that! I must be broken 🤣 it made me want to commit crimes against myself 🤣 11mo

KAO I had been looking forward to this chapter, because I remember (from somewhere) that this was the most famous segment. So I really gave it my full attention—but I found it disappointing. Deep, but honestly not up to the hype, in my opinion. Can it be that I am suffering from a short attention span?? Maybe. 11mo

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Birdsong28

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I | Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

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Good. Not really a Christmas book but it does have some Christmas elements to it. Full of romance and heartbreak. Told mainly through letters so it's a quick read, but it still manages to convey its powerful message of true love.

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#HarperCollinsPublisher
@HarperCollins

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BarkingMadRead

A Glass of Blessings: A Novel | Barbara Pym

Ch 17: Willmet has tea with Piers #athisflat #andwemeetkeith 🏳️‍🌈 #howdoesshenotseeit #poorkeith check out @rwmg ‘s latest post for a glimpse at what Keith might look like! #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade
#ps #ialmostusedapicofprofessorlupin #iwentwithkeithsroominstead #vangogh #irises

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @ravenlee @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @indoordame @librarybelle @kspenmoll @annr @cuilin @thebookhippie @ruthiella @eeclayton @crinoline_laphroaig 13mo

BarkingMadRead @bklover @peanutnine @dabbe @annececilie @rubyslippersreads @thearomaofbooks @julieclair @bthegood @graciouswarriorprincess @rwmg @deblovestoread @aimeesue 13mo

IndoorDame I was betting that‘s who Piers lived with, but I‘m not surprised she‘s oblivious. She lives in such a separate world, and in the 50s I think it really might not occur to her. 13mo

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rwmg I'm not sure what Wilmet is more taken aback by, that Keith is a man or that he is “common“. And if this is her being protective and maternal, I'd hate to get on her bad side. 13mo

AnnR I was looking at @rwmg 's post and thinking, I wouldn't want to have been part of that social circle. The snooty ones judge the 'common' ones. Just horribly pretentious. 13mo

BarkingMadRead @AnnR so pretentious! I am not a fan! 13mo

peanutnine @AnnR and the fact that she gets upset when he calls her out on it 🙄 13mo

AnnR @BarkingMadRead - I think the pretentiousness is why I'm having issues connecting with the characters and the book overall. It's hard to feel emotionally caught up in any of their circumstances or cheer anyone on. (edited) 13mo

BarkingMadRead @AnnR the fact that‘s it‘s fluffy is its saving grace right now 🤣 #tessptsd 13mo

Bookwormjillk I hope this ends with everyone but Wil in Portugal living their best lives while Wil stays at home looking at her trees realizing she‘s not the main character in everyone else‘s life. 13mo

AnnR @barkingmadread 👍😬😁 Fluffy! Perfect description. 13mo

Cuilin You know, Wilmet could have reacted a lot worse. This was a time of major social change, and yet Piers is still living a life of risk. This was a time when someone as heroic as Alan Turing could be arrested for “gross indecency”. If we look at Wilmet through our modern eyes, we can hold her in contempt, but for that time I think she‘s doing really well. 13mo

Cuilin @Bookwormjillk she may be the main character in this novel, but not in their lives!!! 13mo

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin oh for sure, secrecy was key. I feel like Piers wants her to know but also doesn‘t want to tell her 13mo

Cuilin @BarkingMadRead @AnnR you know for all the snobby and snootiness the novel‘s redeeming quality for me is the fact that it completely lacks hustle culture. I‘m loving it‘s fluffy gentleness. 13mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin I agree for the times it‘s pretty good. And for some being common was lower than 🏳️‍🌈 which is another conversation. I also agree the no hustle. As for pretentious it‘s how it was it wouldn‘t seem unusual to us. Wait until people see how hateful our time we are living in now. 😳 13mo

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame agree. 13mo

TheBookHippie Love the fluff still getting over Tess.. oy 13mo

Cuilin @TheBookHippie 💯 (edited) 13mo

Cuilin @BarkingMadRead this is why I like Wilmet, because he knows that his secret is safe with her. Under all that upper class pretentiousness she‘s actually a decent sort. 13mo

AnneCecilie I‘m not surprised at all that Wilmet was surprised at Piers “colleague”, she has after all met Piers colleagues at the press. Keith and the colleagues at the press are probably very different. (edited) 13mo

dabbe @Cuilin Proven by the fact that she states she feels matronly/motherly over Keith. She seems worried about him--even more than Piers. 13mo

rwmg @Cuilin @BarkingMadRead Yes, Piers was taking a big risk letting Wilmet into his life that much. Both Piers and Keith could go to prison. It was only the year before “A Glass of Blessings“ that the Wolfenden Report recommended the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and it wasn't till 1967 that it actually happened. 13mo

Bklover @Cuilin At the end of the chapter when she went to bed I actually felt sorry for her. 13mo

rubyslippersreads I have “the novels of Miss Goudge” on my shelf, so I don‘t know what that says about me. 😂 13mo

Cuilin @rwmg exactly. I‘m always surprised that it took till ‘67 for it to be decriminalized. 13mo

Cuilin @Bklover she needs a purpose of her own. Bit of a lost soul is our Wilmet. 13mo

Cuilin @rubyslippersreads lol. I thought it was really weird when she said she couldn‘t be bothered looking at their books. That‘s the first thing I do when I go into somebody‘s house. Lol 13mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig @Cuilin I always look at people's books! 13mo

rubyslippersreads @Cuilin @Crinoline_Laphroaig The worst is when they—gasp—don‘t have any books! 😳 13mo

ravenlee It seems Wilmet cares a whole lot more that Piers isn‘t hopelessly in love with her and trying to seduce her than that he has a “roommate.” She might not have a problem with him being gay but she‘s disappointed and insulted that he doesn‘t want to have an affair with her. 13mo

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BarkingMadRead

A Passage to India | E. M. Forster

Ch 5: the party was an epic fail #wellnotforadelaandmrsmoore #theymeetsomelovelyladies #theymakeplanstocall #mrsturtinisaslovelyasever 🙄 #hugefanoffielding #cannotseeadelaandronnymarried #ilovewhenaplancomestogether #timetoseetherealindia #ps #picismarabarhills #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @jenniferw88 @catlass007 @daisey @deblovestoread @bookwormjillk @willaful @ruthiella @indoordame @librarybelle @dabbe @cuilin @annr @mcctrish @peanutnine @crinoline_laphroaig @bklover @morr_books @julieclair 1y

Crinoline_Laphroaig Y'all I'm gonna Bail on this one. I'm struggling to get into it. I have a very limited amount of time to read this month. So going to concentrate on things I really want to read. I do want to join in with Nov read

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julieclair I continue to be disappointed with the way the English people behave. Adela and Mrs. Moore are the only women being friendly. They are good role models, if only the other women would follow their example. 1y

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julieclair And yes... #hugefanofgielding ! 1y

Ruthiella With so many unspoken rules on both sides which neither side fully understands, it was bound to fail. 😕 1y

Morr_Books I like Mrs. Moore & Adela right now more than any other characters. Also - the comment about using religion when it suits their purpose was interesting and relevant in most of history. 1y

TheAromaofBooks Oh hey, I am reading this one but think I may have fallen off the tag list!! 1y

BarkingMadRead @Crinoline_Laphroaig @TheAromaofBooks I‘ll update the list! 1y

dabbe My husband is currently reading a book entitled AMERICAN COLONIES. Getting the exact same vibes with this one. Let the white man dominate and “civilize“ those darker-skinned people. Yikes. 😬 1y

Bklover @Morr_Books Yes!!! 1y

TheBookHippie GADS I feel behind- it's a little nutty here. I will catch up soon! This is a reread for me thank goodness just have to refresh my old brain!! 1y

mcctrish Here I am slowly getting caught up, back to school is kicking my butt. I loved that Mrs Turdball‘s English is actually understood #sheisdispicable and Adela and Mrs Moore are making acquaintances 👏🏻👏🏻 1y

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BarkingMadRead

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life | George Eliot

Chapter 72: Dodo wants to help Lydgate but everyone is telling her not to #suchagoodfriend #herfamilynotsomuch #shortchapter #happymonday #pemberlittens #ps #lessthanahundredpagesleft #partytime #almost

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TheBookHippie Short chapter 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2y

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Bklover This “men know best” business is making me nauseous. 🤢 2y

peanutnine @Bklover same. I audibly groaned 🙄 2y

BarkingMadRead @Bklover @peanutnine me too! Ugh! 2y

Aimeesue @Bklover same! UGH 2y

CoffeeNBooks @Bklover same! 🤨 2y

ravenlee But why is Celia so awful too? Do she and Rosy share a brain, so if Rosy is using all of the will and stubbornness then Celia has to be a doormat? I mean, I think James is being a jerk, but Celia encouraging it…ugh. Everyone sucks. 2y

Addison_Reads @ravenlee "everyone sucks" describes how I've felt through most of this book. ? 2y

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BarkingMadRead

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life | George Eliot

Chapter 60: Raffles is back #troublemaker #willknowshishistorynow #whatifeveryonefindsout #hestilllovesdodo #drama #pemberlittens #ps #ialmostpostedafenderpic #yourewelcome

Bookwormjillk I would have liked to have seen the fender. Is Raffles just going to blackmail everyone in town? 2y

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BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk #epicfail I sure hope so 🤣🤣 2y

Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead 😂 2y

AllDebooks How gast paced this section is compared to the rest of the novel #somuchdrama 2y

TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - Would definitely read a parallel book, The Blackmailing Schemes of Raffles 😂 2y

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks yesssss 2y

Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks that is the fan fic bookworms need! 2y

Bklover @TheAromaofBooks I think you are right. Raffles needs his own book! 2y

CoffeeNBooks @Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks I love c the book idea! 😂🤣😂 2y

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ladyBookNite

P.S. I Still Love You | Jenny Han

"Daddy is only in his early forties. That's still plenty young enough to meet someone and fall in love, maybe two or three times over, even."

Love the father-daughter dynamic in this book. #Adorable #PS I Still Love You

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